Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:11:26PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: You can get a list of your installed unofficial packages with aptitude search '~i!~Odebian' huh. that shows me a huge list of packages, including ones I KNOW came from debian. Does it also list packages that have been

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:55:11 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:11:26PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: You can get a list of your installed unofficial packages with aptitude search '~i!~Odebian' huh. that shows me a huge list of packages, including

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-25 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:21:40PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: previously: But maybe I'll rerun aptitude dist-upgrade and see what happens, like you said. It seems, though, that I'll still have to reconfigure or reinstall x11-common and other X11R7-related packages. After waiting, I went

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:25:08 -0700, David E. Fox wrote: On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:21:40PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: previously: But maybe I'll rerun aptitude dist-upgrade and see what happens, like you said. It seems, though, that I'll still have to reconfigure or reinstall

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-25 Thread David E. Fox
$ ls -ld /usr/include/X11/ drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2006-05-23 10:41 /usr/include/X11/ I think you could try to create the directory with the same owner and permissions and then repeat the upgrade. (I am not sure, but I guess This is with Xorg 6.9.0.dfsg1-6 - doing a dpkg --configure -a

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 13:32:02 -0700, David E. Fox wrote: $ ls -ld /usr/include/X11/ drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2006-05-23 10:41 /usr/include/X11/ I think you could try to create the directory with the same owner and permissions and then repeat the upgrade. (I am not sure, but I

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-25 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:11:26PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: Is it possible to remove opera with dpkg -r opera? I remember at least one other case on this list where the presence of opera turned the Xorg I tried doing that, but the result was an attempt to remove nearly everything

[testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-24 Thread David E. Fox
OK Please help before I install Ubuntu or something I should have really read the wiki (now I've managed to lose that page) to upgrade xorg to 7.0. It started to grab all the needed packages and then there are total conflicts between packages that depend on xserver-common (6.9, latest

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-24 Thread Kent West
David E. Fox wrote: OK Please help before I install Ubuntu or something I should have really read the wiki (now I've managed to lose that page) to upgrade xorg to 7.0. It started to grab all the needed packages and then there are total conflicts between packages that depend on

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-24 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:14:03PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I think I'd just let aptitude do what it wants, and then clean up afterward: aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade and see what happens. I might do that - in fact I went ahead and did it - but aborted at the end, saved the

I'm a newbie and would like help configuring x and kde

2003-11-01 Thread Geoffrey Lane
I'm a total newbie to debian and been using redhat for sometime now and it's worked fine. I have tried knoppix for sometime too and love the package management of debian and been thinking of switching but don't know exactly how to get kde/gnome, X setup and working because redhat basically does

RE: I'm a newbie and would like help configuring x and kde

2003-11-01 Thread Tom Hinkley
: 01 November 2003 13:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I'm a newbie and would like help configuring x and kde I'm a total newbie to debian and been using redhat for sometime now and it's worked fine. I have tried knoppix for sometime too and love the package management of debian and been thinking

Re: help starting x please

2003-02-12 Thread pinhas
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Re: help starting x please

2003-02-12 Thread ronin2
If you're new to Linux and would like to begin using a Debian-based distribution I'd recommend starting with Xandros. It has an excellent installer which should recognize your nvidia hardware and install the drivers for it (it did so on my laptop, to my great surprise). Once Xandros is installed

Re: help starting x please

2003-02-12 Thread Sheldon E . Auerbach
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:08:54 -0800 pinhas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux, and trying to start a new machine (headfirst dive into the microsoft-free world). I've tried going throught the install several times (woody), and I can't get X started- i get a no screens error. I'm

help starting x please

2003-02-11 Thread pinhas
Hi, I'm new to Linux, and trying to start a new machine (headfirst dive into the microsoft-free world). I've tried going throught the install several times (woody), and I can't get X started- i get a no screens error. I'm using an nvidia geforce2 mx200 with an athlon xp chip. I would appreciate

RE: help starting x please

2003-02-11 Thread dbalder
nvidia cards work Basically, if you really want X now, try vesa drivers. That will give you GUI until you have a stab at nvidia drivers. Otherwise, download non-free (proprietary) nvidia drivers from their website. There are two files (tarballs of course) and you need to match the numbers.

Re: help starting x please

2003-02-11 Thread Russell
pinhas wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux, and trying to start a new machine (headfirst dive into the microsoft-free world). I've tried going throught the install several times (woody), and I can't get X started- i get a no screens error. I'm using an nvidia geforce2 mx200 with an athlon xp chip. I

Re: help starting x please

2003-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:08:54PM -0800, pinhas wrote: the microsoft-free world). I've tried going throught the install several times (woody), and I can't get X started- i get a no screens error. I'm using an nvidia geforce2 mx200 with an athlon xp chip. I would appreciate any help on what

Re: help starting x please

2003-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:59:51PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Otherwise, download non-free (proprietary) nvidia drivers from their website. There are two files (tarballs of course) and you need to match the numbers. Everything is explained in the README file that is distributed with

Re: Help with X

2002-03-04 Thread Eamon Roque
Hi! Am Mit, 2002-02-27 um 16.54 schrieb Bannerman, Israel: Hi, I just installed Woody and I am trying to get X started. I am using the Mach32 driver for the ATI Rage Fury Pro video card I have. But when I try to startx I get this: XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for

Re: Help with X

2002-02-28 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:54:27AM -0500, Bannerman, Israel wrote: I just installed Woody and I am trying to get X started. I am using the Mach32 driver for the ATI Rage Fury Pro video card I have. But when I try to startx I get this: XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for

Help with X

2002-02-27 Thread Bannerman, Israel
Hi, I just installed Woody and I am trying to get X started. I am using the Mach32 driver for the ATI Rage Fury Pro video card I have. But when I try to startx I get this: XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (--) no ModulePath

Re: Re: Potato system (Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody))

2001-11-29 Thread Paolo Falcone
Oki DZ wrote: I see. I can see the source of my confusion, I believe. I always use unstable; when Potato was unstable, that was the one I used. Then Potato become stable, but I didn't change the sources.list (still pointed to unstable). Then I did apt-get dist-upgrade. So, inadvertently, I

Re: Re: Potato system (Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody))

2001-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:34:52PM +0800, Paolo Falcone wrote: Woody or Sid is already 2.4 ready, as they're always updated regularly (with Sid the most number of iterations -- weekly if I'm not mistaken). Daily. New packages are installed on the master archive at around 8pm UTC each day, and

Re: Potato system (Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody))

2001-11-28 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau wrote: It sounds like you've just been unstable for a long long time, which would mean Potato and Woody packages would've at one time been installed on your system, but that you've been using Sid the whole time :). I believe that I've been using

Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)

2001-11-28 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote: I start X using /etc/init.d/gdm start. The screen blinks for a bit, then it stops, then it blinks for a bit more, then it stops, then it does it again. You didn't tell that it stopped eventually by itself. How did you stop it? I assume it's trying the three

Re: Potato system (Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody))

2001-11-28 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:28:25PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: I believe that I've been using Potato; at least, I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on it (on my system). Anyway, what is the right sequence? Potato - Sid - Woody? Sid - Potato - Woody? or Potato - Woody - Sid? The last one is the

Re: Potato system (Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody))

2001-11-28 Thread Paolo Falcone
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:28:25PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: I believe that I've been using Potato; at least, I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on it (on my system). Anyway, what is the right sequence? Potato - Sid - Woody? Sid - Potato - Woody? or Potato - Woody - Sid? A normal apt-get

Re: Potato system (Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody))

2001-11-28 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Paolo Falcone wrote: A normal apt-get dist-upgrade without modifying /etc/apt/sources.list would upgrade your release to the next Debian release (ex. if you're using 2.2r3 and do a dist-upgrade, you'll get 2.2r4). I see. I can see the source of my confusion, I believe. I

Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)

2001-11-27 Thread jennyw
I just tried to upgrade a Potato installation to Woody. A lot of things went wrong (details at the end of the message) but the main problem now is that X doesn't work. At one point in time while doing apt-get dist-upgrade the installer strongly suggested installing xserver-xfree86 instead of

Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)

2001-11-27 Thread jennyw
] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:49 PM Subject: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody) I just tried to upgrade a Potato installation to Woody. A lot of things went wrong (details at the end of the message) but the main problem now is that X doesn't work. At one

Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)

2001-11-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:08:21AM -0800, jennyw wrote: doesn't work. At one point in time while doing apt-get dist-upgrade the installer strongly suggested installing xserver-xfree86 instead of using older xservers (I was using mach64 previously). Then it was unable to continue. So I

Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)

2001-11-27 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:49:47PM -0800, jennyw wrote: I just tried to upgrade a Potato installation to Woody. A lot of things went wrong (details at the end of the message) but the main problem now is that X doesn't work. At one point in time while doing apt-get dist-upgrade the installer

Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)

2001-11-27 Thread jennyw
From: Andrew Sione Taumoefolau [EMAIL PROTECTED] so there's not reason not to :). How did it complain about missing xserver-mach64? I didn't write down the exact message; I just remember it saying that it was missing. Sorry! Next time I'll do better ... Anyway, the first thing you should do

Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)

2001-11-27 Thread Ax
I start X using /etc/init.d/gdm start. The screen blinks for a bit, then it stops, then it blinks for a bit more, then it stops, then it does it again. I assume it's trying the three video modes (640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768) that I selected, and is finding that none of them works. By the

Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)

2001-11-27 Thread Eric G. Stern
I also blew away my X setup when I upgraded from potato to woody so I know how it feels. Here's some information I determined in the course of fixing things: Under potato you were using XFree86 release 3.3.+. Woody prefers to use XFree86 release 4.0+. You can still use XFree release 3.3 in

Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)

2001-11-27 Thread Paul Smith
%% jennyw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: j By the way, my system apparently has no startx. It sounds to me like your system is missing some very important packages. There's no way you should be missing startx! That's a fundamental script and it's in xbase-clients, which pretty much every X

Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)

2001-11-27 Thread Xingguo Pan
One pitfall of transfering from XFree3.* to XFree4.* is that the config file is now: \etc\X11\XF86Config-4 instead of \etc\X11\XF86Config. You might want to make sure that you configuration is save as the right file. Good luck. Pan

Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)

2001-11-27 Thread Donald R. Spoon
jennyw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- Anyway, the first thing you should do is try to apt-get remove (or dpkg --purge, if you're feeling vindictive and don't mind handling I just tried this; same results as before. Also: when you say X won't load, what do you mean? Does it go

Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)

2001-11-27 Thread jennyw
Thanks to everyone! Yep, packages that should have been present were missing. In particular, xbase-clients (which contains startx, which was indeed missing) and xfonts-base as folks suggested. Are these kinds of problems common in upgrading to Woody? Donald mentioned that he'd seen xfonts-base

Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)

2001-11-27 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:21:23AM -0800, jennyw wrote: Anyway, the first thing you should do is try to apt-get remove (or dpkg --purge, if you're feeling vindictive and don't mind handling I just tried this; same results as before. We need to know what these results were! :)

Potato system (Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody))

2001-11-27 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau wrote: Potato uses version 3 X servers; Woody and unstable support both the version 3 X servers and the shiny and new version 4 one. Long ago, I used unstable, which was potato. Now, I use unstable, and I thought it was potato. I guess, now I'm

Re: Potato system (Re: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody))

2001-11-27 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:41:03AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: Long ago, I used unstable, which was potato. Now, I use unstable, and I thought it was potato. That sounds a bit like a koan :). I guess, now I'm using a potato system with woody's apps. Correct? It sounds like you've just been

Re: Help configuring x-window

2001-08-31 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
I need to know how to configure my x-window cause when i use the startx the only thing that start is sawfish, but i would like to start sawfish, gnome panel and the gmc...i dont know how to do it... Thanks for all... I think then you should start gnome-session in your

Help configuring x-window

2001-08-30 Thread João Laureano Leme
I need to know how to configure my x-window cause when i use the startx the only thing that start is sawfish, but i would like to start sawfish, gnome panel and the gmc...i dont know how to do it... Thanks for all... João Laureano Leme Brasil

Re: Help configuring x-window

2001-08-30 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:05:28PM -0200, João Laureano Leme wrote: | I need to know how to configure my x-window cause when i use the startx | the only thing that start is sawfish, but i would like to start sawfish, | gnome panel and the gmc...i dont know how to do it... | Thanks for all...

Help with X setup

2001-07-24 Thread Alex Thomas
Have got potato installed my system, but typing startx starts tvm. Which file do I edit to have startx start gnome using sawmill? Thanks in advance for any help. Alex

Re: Help with X setup

2001-07-24 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 01:42 p.m. 24/07/01 -0500, Alex Thomas wrote: Have got potato installed my system, but typing startx starts tvm. Which file do I edit to have startx start gnome using sawmill? Thanks in advance for any help. try editing ~/.xsession

Re: Help with X setup

2001-07-24 Thread Scott Adair
You should just need to put 'gnome-session' in your ~/.xession (or ~/.xinitrc) and it should launch gnome+sawfish for you (if they are properly installed) * Miguel Griffa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 01:42 p.m. 24/07/01 -0500, Alex Thomas wrote: Have got potato installed my system, but typing

Re: Help with X setup

2001-07-24 Thread Joel Mayes
Alex Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have got potato installed my system, but typing startx starts tvm. Which file do I edit to have startx start gnome using sawmill?   Thanks in advance for any help. try (as root) update-alternatives --config x-window-mannager Cheers Joel

Re: help with x

2001-07-23 Thread David Kimdon
Hi James, I always use XF86Setup (package xf86setup). It sounds to me like your configuration is wrong. Forwarded to debian-user, a more appropriate forum. -David Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:13:21PM +0100 wrote: Hi, I've just recently bought the official Debian 2.2 r3. I have installed it

Help starting x-windows with Gnome

2001-05-17 Thread Paul Mackinney
Hi, I'm having a lot of trouble getting Gnome set up. I've run clean installs several times, here's the current status: I've successfully installed the base potato config, a bunch of other packages, and Ximian-Gnome. When I run startx to start X-windows, I get a cursor and a test-pattern

help with X

2001-03-05 Thread Eric R Cheney
Hi all. I'm new to debian after a year using redhat. I'm trying to get X-4.02 in unstable versionno luck... Here's the error message I get in bash: Cannot stat /etc/x11/X (No such file or directory), aborting The thing that baffles me is that I've installed X using dselect and gone

Re: help with X

2001-03-05 Thread Martin Fluch
Have you installed the xserver-xfree86 package which contains the xserver 4.0.2? If not, do it, and the install script will (should) ask you about the configuration. If you have the package already installed you can reconfigure the server by issuing dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Martin

Ipfwadm - ipchains conversion syntax help 2.0.x - 2.2.x

2000-02-21 Thread Anthony Green
Hello .. Im about to go from kernel 2.0.38 to 2.2.x I have some syntax questions with regards to ipchains .. and have included below my existing IP setup in init.d/network and some local settings .. If someone could let me know the ipchains syntax .. that'd be great. Current net config ..

Re: Help gettin' X to work...

2000-01-20 Thread exile
Rob Hensley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: }Hi, i recently ran 'apt-get install xf86setup xserver-svga' and installed }the svga x server as my default. After configuring it and everything, I }tried to run 'startx', but it didn't exist. So then I went into }/usr/X11R6/bin/ and ran './startx'. That's

RE: Help gettin' X to work...

2000-01-20 Thread Rob Hensley
Rob Hensley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: }Hi, i recently ran 'apt-get install xf86setup xserver-svga' and installed }the svga x server as my default. After configuring it and everything, I }tried to run 'startx', but it didn't exist. So then I went into }/usr/X11R6/bin/ and ran './startx'. That's

Help gettin' X to work...

2000-01-19 Thread Rob Hensley
Hi, i recently ran 'apt-get install xf86setup xserver-svga' and installed the svga x server as my default. After configuring it and everything, I tried to run 'startx', but it didn't exist. So then I went into /usr/X11R6/bin/ and ran './startx'. That's where I got the error: X: X: cannot execute

Re: Help with X Windows

2000-01-08 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:56:21PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey everybody! Now that I have gotten my scripts and executables to work (thanks to your help) I was wondering if I could customize the menus in X Windows so that my games would show up in the menu (I looked for a config file

Help with X Windows

2000-01-06 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey everybody! Now that I have gotten my scripts and executables to work (thanks to your help) I was wondering if I could customize the menus in X Windows so that my games would show up in the menu (I looked for a config file for something like that, but I couldn't find anything. The window

Desperately need help on X! Please!

1999-11-23 Thread Tam Than Ma
Hi all, Here is my problem: After I configure X. I typed startx, the screen goes blank and then turn white with an X mark in the middle(for about 2 seconds) and then it gives this only message: wait for X server to shut down. I don't know what the problem is, I have configure it over and over

Re: Desperately need help on X! Please!

1999-11-23 Thread Kent West
Tam Than Ma wrote: Hi all, Here is my problem: After I configure X. I typed startx, the screen goes blank and then turn white with an X mark in the middle(for about 2 seconds) and then it gives this only message: wait for X server to shut down. I don't know what the problem is, I

Re: Desperately need help on X! Please!

1999-11-23 Thread Michael Stenner
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:25:26AM -0500, Tam Than Ma wrote: Hi all, Here is my problem: After I configure X. I typed startx, the screen goes blank and then turn white with an X mark in the middle(for about 2 seconds) and then it gives this only message: wait for X server to shut down.

Help with X

1999-11-17 Thread cain
I'm having some trouble setting up X on a Debian 2.1 machine. I've run xf86config and answered all the questions correctly, however X insists on coming up in 320x204 resolution, when I specifically told it to use only 1024x768 or 800x600. Here is the output when I start the server... (--)

Re: Help with X

1999-11-17 Thread aphro
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, cain wrote: cain I know that my hardware is capable of 16bpp and 1024x768, because i've had it running at that with TurboLinux 4.0. When using TurboLinux' x configuration tool, my chipset (SiS 5598) was listed, however using xf86config under Debian it wasn't, so I had to

Need help on X configuration

1999-11-11 Thread Tam Than Ma
hi, I configured Xfree yesterday and I have entered in all the valid information for my monitor, video card and so forth. But afterward, I run startx and it gave me this error message: System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w l -R/user/X11R6/lib/X11.xkb -xkm -m us

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-25 Thread M.K.Pai
Just my $ 0.02. Use xf86config. I like it more than tha xf86setup. Use the most generic freqs. It always works. The reason I started to use xf86config was that I was using a lousy no-name cheap cheap b/w monitor from an Indian company that had gone out of business. And believe me, I was pleased

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-23 Thread Brant Wells
Original Message Follows From: jh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brant Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need help for x window Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:46:06 -0600 Jeff-- Thanks for your words of advice. I have been running xf86config and rerunning it but I can

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-23 Thread jh
At 08:12 PM 10/22/99 PDT, you wrote: Hey :) Post your monitor type here, and maybe someone else can help you. Just for the sake of mentioning it... There should be a sticker on the back that lists at least the base Horz Vertical Frequencies(it may be a long shot...) Here's an even longer

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-23 Thread John Miskinis
Hi Brant. It is a Micron model M14FG. It says on back: 115/230V/1A, 60/50hz. I have tried manually entering 60 for the horiz and 50 for the vert. I have tried selections that were preconfigured at 60 and 50. I feel like I have YIKES - That sounds like the power supply specs! BE CAREFUL!

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-23 Thread Brant Wells
---JEFF Hi Brant. It is a Micron model M14FG. It says on back: 115/230V/1A, 60/50hz. I have tried manually entering 60 for the horiz and 50 for the vert. I have tried selections that were preconfigured at 60 and 50. I feel like I have tried most of the combinations listed. I know the

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 10:37:03PM -0600, jh wrote: Hi Brant. It is a Micron model M14FG. It says on back: 115/230V/1A, 60/50hz. I have tried manually entering 60 for the horiz and 50 for the vert. I have tried selections that were preconfigured at 60 and 50. I feel like I have tried most of

Need help for x window

1999-10-21 Thread jh
Hi. I have recently installed the x packages from cd. When I type startx I receive: Could not find file! Tried /root/xf86config /etc/x11/ef86config /usr/x11r6/lib/x11/xf86config.debian /usr/x11r6/lib/x11/xf86config Fatal server error: No config file found!

Re: Need help for x window

1999-10-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On 20/10/99 jh wrote: Fatal server error: No config file found! -x11TransSocketUNIConnect: Can't connect: errno= 111 Giving up. xinit: connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to x server xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error. My question is how do I find and properly

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-20 Thread John Foster
Tam Ma wrote: hi, more on X window info. I am install from cdrom. --- 1. use dselect as your installer. 2. set dselect to use apt as the file aquisition method from menue 1. 3. when setting up apt select file as the storage method an

Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread Tam Ma
Hi guys, Hi guys, I just install slink and all of the packages that I need. Now I want installl X window but I don't know which packages to install. Can you guys give me a list of packages I should Install to get X window working. I don't want anything fancy yet, right now I just want ordinary X

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread j way
I just install slink and all of the packages that I need. Now I want installl X window but I don't know which packages to install. Can you guys give me a list of packages I should Install to get X window working. I don't want anything fancy yet, right now I just want ordinary X window and

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread Adrian Thompson
Hello, Depending on what graphics card you have, install the required Xserver. ie. XF86_SVGA. that one is very generic to most graphic card types. Install all the bins and then the rest is up to you... like apps and games. You will be required to configure a script called

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread John Foster
Tam Ma wrote: Hi guys, Hi guys, I just install slink and all of the packages that I need. Now I want installl X window but I don't know which packages to install. Can you guys give me a list of packages I should Install to get X window working. I don't want anything fancy yet, right

Re: Newbie needs help on X win!!!

1999-09-19 Thread Tam Ma
hi, more on X window info. I am install from cdrom. Thanx, Tam On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, John Foster wrote: Tam Ma wrote: Hi guys, Hi guys, I just install slink and all of the packages that I need. Now I want installl X window but I don't know which packages to install. Can you guys

Re: I need help with X

1999-05-11 Thread deblists
On 10 May, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: [...] Another question. Now I'm running wm. And i click with the middle button on the clip to create a new workspace i can't get to the menu options because the menu follows the mouse arround. What am i doing wrong? Thanks I

I need help with X

1999-05-10 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi like I sayd a few days ago my X is going bananas. Now when i run it it tell's me this : Error Loading Keymap /var/tmp/server-o.xkm couldn't load xkb keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap What does this mean and how do i fix it. I'm running slink since March without any problems and now in

Re: I need help with X

1999-05-10 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: Hi like I sayd a few days ago my X is going bananas. Now when i run it it tell's me this : Error Loading Keymap /var/tmp/server-o.xkm couldn't load xkb keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap What does this mean and how do i fix it. I'm running slink

Help installing X-windows

1999-03-22 Thread Jayson Baird
Ok, I know how to use Debain packages, but which ones are needed for a semi full install that will allow use of either KDE or GNOME? If someone can point to a walkthrough of installation for Debain, or just some advice, it'd be greatly appreciated.

HELP INSTALLING X USING DPKG FOR A NEWBIE

1999-03-13 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi- I am trying to install X and have posted about 5 messages. I am new to Linux and Unix (I'm running WIN95) currently I have not done anything productive with it except get frustrated. I downloaded Debian 2.1 onto a 80386 with 250 MB of disk space for / and a 30 MB swap. I want to get X

Re: HELP INSTALLING X USING DPKG FOR A NEWBIE

1999-03-13 Thread servis
*- On 13 Mar, Robert Aisenberg wrote about HELP INSTALLING X USING DPKG FOR A NEWBIE Hi- I am trying to install X and have posted about 5 messages. I am new to Linux and Unix (I'm running WIN95) currently I have not done anything productive with it except get frustrated. I downloaded

Little help with X

1999-02-15 Thread Tom
Howdy all, I forgot the command for the X setup that uses the graphical interface. You know the one that starts out with choose the name of your mouse device and the port that it is on. If you could email me directly that would be great, since I have about 300 digests to catch up on. Thanks.

RE: Little help with X

1999-02-15 Thread Shaleh
On 15-Feb-99 Tom wrote: Howdy all, I forgot the command for the X setup that uses the graphical interface. You know the one that starts out with choose the name of your mouse device and the port that it is on. If you could email me directly that would be great, since I have about 300

I need some help with X

1998-12-15 Thread MallarJ
Hey guys, I'm kind of stuck here on what to do next. I seem to be unable to get X working correctly. I have a Diamond II Stealth S220 Card - which isn't supported via XF86Setup, so I used xf86config to set things up. All went well, and it went all the way thru without error. When I try to

Mail; how to do remote... (was Re: need help getting X server running...)

1998-10-26 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, again Folks! Well, so far you people have been a big help. I finally managed to get X working; turns out I needed to use the SVGA server. Thanks again for all your advice. Now, on to the next item... How do I deal with mail? I've got a dial-up connection through an ISP, so I need

Re: Mail; how to do remote... (was Re: need help getting X server running...)

1998-10-26 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 05:11:28PM -0800, Jesse Evans wrote: Now, on to the next item... How do I deal with mail? I've got a dial-up connection through an ISP, so I need to somehow configure linux to connect to my POP account. Where do I look and what do I do? You could install a

Re: need help getting X server running...

1998-10-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Jesse Evans wrote: Folks, Thanks for the tips, but so far still no joy. Regarding posting all the messages, I can't even read them all. As the messages start to scroll up, the display blinks (trying to go into graphics mode, I suspect,) then comes back to

Re: need help getting X server running...

1998-10-24 Thread Jesse Evans
how to make that happen. -Original Message- From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jesse Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian User Mail List debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 7:54 AM Subject: Re: need help getting X server running... At 09:06 PM 10/21/1998 -0700

Re: need help getting X server running...

1998-10-24 Thread Kent West
@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 7:54 AM Subject: Re: need help getting X server running... At 09:06 PM 10/21/1998 -0700, Jesse Evans wrote: Folks, (a long list of messages which scroll up the screen, followed by...) *** none of the configured devices were

Re: need help getting X server running...

1998-10-24 Thread DinosauR MinG
Subject: Re: need help getting X server running... At 09:06 PM 10/21/1998 -0700, Jesse Evans wrote: Folks, (a long list of messages which scroll up the screen, followed by...) *** none of the configured devices were detected *** Fatal server error

Help re x windows

1998-10-23 Thread Derek McCabe
Hi, people! I have a problem. I have tried to install Xwindows on my 486100, but it 'cannot find the packages'. I've used dpkg to... de-package the files but none of the resulting files run at all. I've tried doing it from my Win98 partition, but same result. I've used dselect, but again

Re: Help re x windows

1998-10-23 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Derek McCabe wrote: Hi, people! I have a problem. I have tried to install Xwindows on my 486100, but it 'cannot find the packages'. I've used dpkg to... de-package the files but none of the resulting files run at all. What exactly are you trying to do? you should

need help getting X server running...

1998-10-22 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, I've recently installed debian on my PC and can't get the X server working. I've run the XF86Setup app and it completed sucessfully, telling me I had established a properly working server, but when I quit, saving the config to XF86Config, and run startx, I get the following: (a

Re: need help getting X server running...

1998-10-22 Thread Kent West
At 09:06 PM 10/21/1998 -0700, Jesse Evans wrote: Folks, I've recently installed debian on my PC and can't get the X server working. I've run the XF86Setup app and it completed sucessfully, telling me I had established a properly working server, but when I quit, saving the config to

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