Re: [XFree86] Oh lord I hate Linux!!

2005-03-16 Thread Nik Trevallyn-Jones
John, I need to post a couple of corrections to my previous post. Apologies for the disinformation. Nik wrote: To re-install XFree only, a command something like the following should work for you: rpm -Uvh `rpm -q -a | grep XFree` Wrong, wrong, wrong. Much simpler: rpm -Uvh

Re: [XFree86] Installing and configuring XFree86

2005-01-23 Thread Nik Trevallyn-Jones
Hi Jesse, On Saturday 22 January 2005 02:21, Jesse Nichols wrote: Thanks again Nik! I took your advise and did another fresh install of FC3. So now Im back at the beginning. My original problem is all GL-apps Run extremely slow. How do I enable Mesa, instead of using no rendering? I

Re: [XFree86] Installing and configuring XFree86

2005-01-18 Thread Nik Trevallyn-Jones
Hi Jesse, My last email to you bounced after 5 days - apologies. On Wednesday 19 January 2005 08:06, Jesse Nichols wrote: nik wrote: You need to change the live file, which is usually in /etc/X/XFConfig Firstly, I missed a point in your first post: After the install I ran XFree86

Re: [XFree86] Installing and configuring XFree86

2005-01-12 Thread Nik Trevallyn-Jones
Hi, We can probably fix the mouse problem you are experiencing, but in the long run, you probably want to fix the original error in a different way. FC3 is shipped with a pretty recent X-server (graphics software) from X.org. This is compatable with the most recent acecelerated drivers. So,

Re: [XFree86] I am not happy! One problem I can not solve!

2004-12-05 Thread Nik Trevallyn-Jones
Qiang, I am not an expert, but I suspect that the problem lies in the fact that while you have the libX11.so* libraries on your disk, they have not been installed by RPM, and so are not in the RPM database, meaning that RPM cannot find them to resolve dependencies. What I *think* you need to

Re: [XFree86] I am not happy! One problem I can not solve!

2004-12-05 Thread Nik Trevallyn-Jones
Hi Qiang, Firstly, I wasn't recommending *against* building XFree86 yourself, I was merely congratulating you. I do build many other programs from source, but I try to download RPM versions of major system components. I don't know where you can get RPMs of XFree 4.4. I haven't looked in the

Re: [XFree86] How to change screen resolution

2004-11-15 Thread Nik Trevallyn-Jones
On my RedHat 9.0 installation (using KDE), I select System Settings from the system menu (click the RedHat logo at the bottom-left of the screen); then select Display. If you are not logged in as root (you shouldn't be), then you will be prompted for the root password. Enter this, and a few

Re: [XFree86] Screen Fault

2004-11-04 Thread Nik Trevallyn-Jones
On Friday 05 November 2004 14:37, Vaa Alauni wrote: Hi there, I have copied the log fom /var/log/XFree86.0.log and and forward it to you so please help me I have moved my hard-drive into a different box, and the box, so when I powered it up it came up with that error message I am not an

[XFree86] Configuring a Radeon 9000 (M9)

2004-10-13 Thread Nik Trevallyn-Jones
Hi All, I am trying to configure my Radeon 9000 (M9) (in a Dell latitude D600) for best graphics performance. I believe that my primary problem is that I don't really know what features (and hence driver) I need to get the performance I want. I have successfully run the

[XFree86] testing graphics using Tux Racer

2004-09-13 Thread Nik Trevallyn-Jones
Hi all, My basic problem is I'm still trying to find *where* I should be looking to solve my problem. I have two DELL notebooks, each running RedHat 9.0 and XFree86 4.3.0-2 My ultimate intention is to try to get CAD software working acceptably under linux (possibly using WINE), but I am using