Mouse Failure in X

1998-04-16 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
Hi! I'm using a Mouse Systems serial mouse. When I startx, twm starts up fine, but as soon as I touch the mouse, it disappears and I can see a little activity in the lower left corner of the screen (the entire virtual desktop panned as though I moved the mouse down there) However, the cursor see

X cursor crapped out

1998-04-10 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
Hi! I put a new video card in and was playing around with the settings. I locked up X about three timesso bad that I had to tap the reset button on my PC. I now have the correct settings, but my cursor is shot. Instead of the little X, I now get a handful of dark colored pixels scattered i

gdk-imlibg

1998-04-08 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
Does anyone know where I can find the binaries of gdk-imlibg and gdk-imlibg-dev? I downloaded the Enlightenment .13 binary and imlib1g from a Japanese site during a severe net dredge for Enlightenment. Everything is working fine right now, but to install imlibg, I had to remove the old imlib1,

Re: libXmu.so.6 ....THANK you

1998-04-07 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
Thank you Mr. Elphick. All I needed to do was install xlib6 It's always the simple things that inconvenience you, isn't it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Xlib6g conflicts with X Win 3.3.2?

1998-04-06 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
I installed a bunch of packages this weekend. Among them was Xlib6g. Now when I try to start X, I get the message: Can't load library libXmu.so.6 What do I need to do to get X running again? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

libXmu.so.6 error?

1998-04-04 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
After I installed xlib6g, I get an error trying to startx: can't load library libXmu.so.6 I reinstalled X332lib.tgz, but still no good. I peeked in the lib directory and found these: libXmu.a libXmu.so libXmu.so.6 libXmu.so.6.0 What should I do to fix X? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

dpkg error installing gcc

1998-04-04 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
Help!! :-) when I try to dpkg --install gcc.deb, I get the following error message: trying to overwrite ' /usr/bin/g++ ', which is also in package g++ dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) what do I do now?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

giflib3g PLEASE?

1998-04-04 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
Can someone *please* tell me where to find giflib3g or a suitable replacement? several packages refer to it as a depend, and I can't find it or something that will provide it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Where is giflib3g and -dev ?

1998-04-02 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
Hey folks. I'm having a *major* problem locating giflib3g and giflib3g-dev. Does anyone know where they might be located? I see those particular files listed as depends on some descriptions in the Packages file, but the actual file is not listed in Packages.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Looking for hamm DISKS

1998-03-31 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
I'm currently using Debian 1.3 I'd like to upgrade to 2.0-to-be. I only seem to see the actual base install disks, is there an upgrade package somewhere? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Imlib compilation error

1998-03-29 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
First I would like to extend a thanks to all of you who helped me with my "imake madness" problem. Since then, I have installed the GNU autoconf in the hopes that *it* might work. At this time, I am having problems at the gdk_imlib "make install". I get the following two error messages: gdk_imli

Re: imake madness

1998-03-28 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
In regards to an earlier post I downloaded and installed a C interpreter. Now I get messages indicating several missing includes such as: /usr/include/sys/time.h:6: linux/time.h: No such file or directory However, when I look in /usr/include/sys, there *is* a time.h file. But what the hell

imake madness

1998-03-28 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
I need help...again. I'm trying to get the enlightenment window manager on my box. I followed the instructions for installing ImageMagick and I made sure imake was installed (came with X 3.3). Next step was supposed to be imlib. imlib does not come as a binary, so I have to compile it. Her

More embarassing X questions

1998-03-27 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
Actually, I have a slight correction :-) I rebooted and got the "unable to find usable termcap entry" error again. I had mentioned in a previous post that all I could find was a terminfo directory. Do I need to create a link to a file in this directory? And if so, what would it be? -- To UNS

embarassing X questions

1998-03-27 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
Good evening folks! I have 3 questions that I don't see really covered in my X book. 1) Is there somewhere I can read up on the different types of windows managers? 2) I loaded X without a windows manager installed. I can move my mouse around, but that's about it, no menus or anything. I switc