Hello: You say your running X, what is your window manager? Select 1, fvwm, fvwm95, KDE, also install kdm or xdm.
Peter -----Original Message----- From: Hersh, Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Rafael Cordones Marcos' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Friday, August 21, 1998 7:21 AM Subject: RE: Runaway X >Thanks, everyone for all the help. Here's what I found that might be helpful >to others starting out: > 1. From a virtual console, pressing Alt-Fn on the keyboard switches >control to virtual console n. However when X is running, the command is >ctrl-Alt-Fn. (I don't remember reading this in the documentation.) > > 2. As Rafael pointed out, if you install one X server (an incorrect >one, perhaps?), then install a second X server, /etc/X11/Xserver will still >point to the old server. (Again, an undocumented feature.) Editing the first >line of the script to point to the correct server solves the problem. > >Now that I have X up and running (almost), there is one more nagging problem >I hope someone can help with. Everything seems to run, but there is no >cursor bitmap, just a 1"x1/4" white rectangle that moves in response to my >mouse movements. In addition, it appears that the backing store is not >working: moving a window to a new location on the display moves it >correctly, but the old location still maintains a snapshot image of the >window. (It's as if the backgound is not responding to the repaint event.) >And in a seemingly related matter menues drop down correctly only the first >time selected. After that the menu's bounding rectangle appears without the >content. I can tell the menu is there (but invisible) for I can hilight and >select menu items. > >Can anyone take a guess at what's happening here? What's missing or >reconfigured wrong? > >Thanks, > >Harry Hersh > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rafael Cordones Marcos [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 6:10 PM >> To: Debian Users >> Subject: Re: Runaway X >> >> On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:40:18AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: >> > > >> > > Once I can stop the looping, I can start figuring out why the server >> > > only comes up in 340x200 mode and why /dev/psaux doesn't work as a >> > > Microsoft mouse port. >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > >> > > Harry Hersh >> > >> >> I don't know if this might be your problem but when I installed Deb2.0 >> I couldn't start the Xserver (SVGA). And finally spotted the problem >> in the file "/etc/X11/Xserver" which had not been updated by the >> configuration script and still had the VGA16 server on the first line. >> See also "/usr/doc/X11/README.Debian" >> >> Rafa >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >> /dev/null > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
