XF86 configuration
Hi, I am new to linux and to debian 2.2r2, currently struggling to configure Xf86. Questions : 1. My Video card is NVIDIA Riva TNT2 model 64. In the installation process "anxious" failed to identify the video card. However after installation, while I am trying to configure xf86, the list of video cards provided contains one card saying NVIDIA Riva and chipset TNT2. Am I making the correct choice ? how come anxious can't find it then ? 2. I have a MS PS/2 mouse with a two button and a little scroll wheel in the middle. I selected PS/2 mouse. But I am only guessing when it asks about the specific device for the mouse. The default is /dev/mouse, I tried that, and it gave an error saying "mouse not found". Next time I tried /dev/tty0 then also mouse wasn't identified. Please help. Thanks. nitai --- Begin Message --- Hi, I am new to linux and to debian 2.2r2, currently struggling to configure Xf86. Questions : 1. My Video card is NVIDIA Riva TNT2 model 64. In the installation process "anxious" failed to identify the video card. However after installation, while I am trying to configure xf86, the list of video cards provided contains one card saying NVIDIA Riva and chipset TNT2. Am I making the correct choice ? how come anxious can't find it then ? 2. I have a MS PS/2 mouse with a two button and a little scroll wheel in the middle. I selected PS/2 mouse. But I am only guessing when it asks about the specific device for the mouse. The default is /dev/mouse, I tried that, and it gave an error saying "mouse not found". Next time I tried /dev/tty0 then also mouse wasn't identified. Please help. Thanks. nitai --- Begin Message --- Hi, I am new to linux and to debian 2.2r2, currently struggling to configure Xf86. Questions : 1. My Video card is NVIDIA Riva TNT2 model 64. In the installation process "anxious" failed to identify the video card. However after installation, while I am trying to configure xf86, the list of video cards provided contains one card saying NVIDIA Riva and chipset TNT2. Am I making the correct choice ? how come anxious can't find it then ? 2. I have a MS PS/2 mouse with a two button and a little scroll wheel in the middle. I selected PS/2 mouse. But I am only guessing when it asks about the specific device for the mouse. The default is /dev/mouse, I tried that, and it gave an error saying "mouse not found". Next time I tried /dev/tty0 then also mouse wasn't identified. Please help. Thanks. nitai --- End Message --- --- End Message ---
X window too big
thanks for all the help with the mouse and video card configuration. In the default screen I got after installing debian2.2r2, the screen is huge. Actually it is just four times the size of my monitor screen and I have to move around the whole X screen using the mouse. So when I open a new window, I have to look around the other 3/4 of the screen to see where it opened. Any idea why this happened and how to rectify. thanks. nitai
X window too big
> In the default screen I got after installing debian2.2r2, the screen is >huge. Actually it is just >four times the size of my monitor screen and I have to >move around the whole X screen using the mouse. So >when I open a new window, I have to look around the >other 3/4 of the screen to see where it opened. >Any idea why this happened and how to rectify. >thanks. > nitai I was suggested two solutions for the above problem : 1. comment out the Virtual line in the Screen section. 2. put a virtual line with the mode I want. both these two failed to work. I have 4 screen section for VGA server, SVGA server, Monochrome server and Acclerated server. during Xconfiguration I chose the SVGA and that subsection doesn't have any virtual statement. Still I tried both the above methods. none worked. I have NVIDIA Riva TNT2 video card with 32 MB ram. please help, if you have any guess about the source of this problem. thanks. nitai
Re: X window too big
thanks, this helped some, but hasn't resolved the whole problem : In a message dated 1/4/2001 10:22:57 PM US Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << >From a xterm run xwininfo and click on the main window, this will give you the resolution that it is running at. Try ctrl-alt-numpad- till you get to the resolution that you want to be at. Odds are it will still look bad not to worry. WHAT IS THIS 'NUMPAD" From the xterm run xvidtune click OK on the scary message. Click on show and make a note of the modline it returns. Now use a combo of the vidtune controls and your monitors onscreen contorls to get it to look like you want it to no rolling flickering and that kind of stuff. Click on show again and it should give you a different modline. Now in your sf86config file find the modline that matches the first one and replace it with the second one. That should take care of it. IN THE MONITOR SECTION OF THE XCONFIG FILE THERE ARE TOO MANY MODE LINES. I CHANGED ONLY THE MODE LINES OF THE SCREEN SECTION TO 640x480 THIS DID FIT IN THE MAIN WINDOW IN THE MONITOR. BUT AFTER THAT ANY OTHER WINDOW I OPEN, HAS THE SAME SIZE AS BEFORE. FOR EG, WHEN I OPEN gmc, THAT WINDOW IS 647x360 Is there a way to take care of all the windows ? thanks.
What is CORBA
I don't know how but all of a sudden there is a CORBA directory in my /etc directory. and CORBA directory contains the X11 directory and the xservers directory. whenever I try "startx" it is giving the error : /etc/X11/X is not executable. But the directory /etc/X11 is now nonexistent. I tried XF86config afresh, that also failed as it could n't find the directory . where has this CORBA come from ?
audio filesystem
I am having trouble mounting audio filesystem in my CD-RW. probably specifying the file system might solve the problem. iso9660 filesystem is not accepted. Do you know if audio cd's has a special filesystem name that might work? thanks
Fwd: video card suggestions
I have a NVIDIA TNT2 M64 video card and am a first time user of debian. I am using version 2.2r2. I am having three problems : 1. the resolution is pretty bad. I have windows in the first partition of my computer, there the windows resolution is much better. But after configuring my xwindows the background of the debian icon looks really bad, with a very low resolution. can you tell me how to optimize the resolution ? 2. Initially after configuring my xf86, I had a x window which is four times larger than my monitor screen. According to the suggestion of some helpers in this group, I changed some of the lines in the xconfig file starting with "mode" in the SVGA part of the screen section keeping only 800X600 and deleting the higher modes. that way the x window now fits exactly in the monitor. This gives a artificial solution to that problem, but I really don't know why that happened in the first place. But still, some other windows are bigger than the screen. for eg, if I open GMC window, it is of a higer dimension than the monitor and so I have to move it around to see the whole of it. Do you know any solution to this problem ? 3. Is it possible to change the size of the windows as can be done in MS windows with the help of the mouse ? thanks for any help you can provide. If you can't find what the sources of these problems are, could you just post the xconfig file of someone using the same video card, may be I can compare it with mine and check what is wrong. thanks. nitai --- Begin Message --- Hi Matthew, I have a NVIDIA TNT2 M64 video card and am a first time user of debian. I am using version 2.2r2. I am having three problems : 1. the resolution is pretty bad. I have windows in the first partition of my computer, there the windows resolution is much better. But after configuring my xwindows the background of the debian icon looks really bad, with a very low resolution. can you tell me how to optimize the resolution ? 2. Initially after configuring my xf86, I had a x window which is four times larger than my monitor screen. According to the suggestion of some helpers in this group, I changed some of the lines in the xconfig file starting with "mode" in the SVGA part of the screen section keeping only 800X600 and deleting the higher modes. that way the x window now fits exactly in the monitor. This gives a artificial solution to that problem, but I really don't know why that happened in the first place. But still, some other windows are bigger than the screen. for eg, if I open GMC window, it is of a higer dimension than the monitor and so I have to move it around to see the whole of it. Do you know any solution to this problem ? 3. Is it possible to change the size of the windows as can be done in MS windows with the help of the mouse ? thanks for any help you can provide. If you can't find what the sources of these problems are, could you just send me your xconfig file, may be I can compare it with mine and check what is wrong. thanks. nitai --- End Message ---
