Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-29 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
n-user@lists.debian.org; debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg On 9/25/06, Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > -Stephen > > > From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mon 9/25/

RE: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-29 Thread Stephen Yorke
: Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg On 9/25/06, Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > -Stephen > > > From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mon 9/25/2006 9:36 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subje

RE: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-29 Thread Stephen Yorke
quez-Vivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:38 AM To: Stephen Yorke Cc: David Goodenough; debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg On 9/25/06, Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 25 September 2006 14:50, Adam Porter wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > I am trying to install xorg on an HP 9010 laptop. It was installed but > > the hard drive died and so I took an old 2.5" drive I had which had linux > > on it with XFree86 (and a SIS screen configured) and I am try

Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 25 September 2006 14:50, Adam Porter wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > I am trying to install xorg on an HP 9010 laptop. It was installed but > > the hard drive died and so I took an old 2.5" drive I had which had linux > > on it with XFree86 (and a SIS screen configured) and I am try

Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-25 Thread Adam Porter
David Goodenough wrote: > I am trying to install xorg on an HP 9010 laptop. It was installed but > the hard drive died and so I took an old 2.5" drive I had which had linux > on it with XFree86 (and a SIS screen configured) and I am trying to > upgrade it to > work on this new machine. I got rid

Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-25 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 9/25/06, Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] -Stephen From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 9/25/2006 9:36 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Problem installing xserver-xorg [...] When configuring xserver-x

RE: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-25 Thread Stephen Yorke
s issue. -Stephen From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 9/25/2006 9:36 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Problem installing xserver-xorg I am trying to install xorg on an HP 9010 laptop. It was installed but the hard drive died and so I took an old 2.5&quo

Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-25 Thread David Goodenough
I am trying to install xorg on an HP 9010 laptop. It was installed but the hard drive died and so I took an old 2.5" drive I had which had linux on it with XFree86 (and a SIS screen configured) and I am trying to upgrade it to work on this new machine. I got rid of the old XFree86 code (I think I

Re: Installing xserver

2003-05-30 Thread Tim Emerick
Redhat uses a package called Kudzu. It keeps a database of installed hardware and scans on boot for hardware changes. I find it quite helpful when I forget what type of card is installed. --- Joris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joris, > > > > Thanks for the lead. It's always nice to have some

Re: Installing xserver

2003-05-30 Thread Joris
> Joris, > > Thanks for the lead. It's always nice to have some hardware > detection. Does it build a database so that when new hardware is > installed, it opens a dialog for you to configure it during the boot > process? I don't think so, I've never used it myself. As a student, I rarely buy new

Re: Installing xserver

2003-05-30 Thread Haines Brown
Joris, Thanks for the lead. It's always nice to have some hardware detection. Does it build a database so that when new hardware is installed, it opens a dialog for you to configure it during the boot process? The discover is a frontend for hardware detection tools, and you mentioned one for the

Re: Installing xserver

2003-05-29 Thread Joris
>> Once you get done with that, try using the utility called >> 'dexconf'. In my brief experience with it, what it does is use the >> vesa driver and somehow manages to get a basic X display up (no >> acceleration and that stuff). Then you can try experimenting and >> making new configurations with

Re: Installing xserver

2003-05-29 Thread Haines Brown
> > My current configuration has a vertRefresh of 48-120 Hz, but the > > debian file ends up with 50-85Hz. > > Just fix it in the file. Thanks. Good to know that the information in XF86Config reflects actual monitor capability rather than impose a restriction on it. > > Should I expect the debia

Re: Installing xserver

2003-05-29 Thread Haines Brown
> Follow the instructions in the NVIDIA readmes EXACTLY. (When they > refer to a "fully configured kernel source tree", they mean one in > which you've done "make ?config" and "make dep".) While I was planning to recompile the kernel first and then install the driver as you suggest, is that order

Re: Installing xserver

2003-05-29 Thread Haines Brown
> Haines Brown wrote: > > I installed a woody base system and then install the xserver-svga > > required by my nVidia GeForce3 card and a window manager. Then > > from a root command line I ran startx. However, all I got as a > > result was a black screen with speckles (not x's grey screen), > > wi

Re: Installing xserver

2003-05-29 Thread David Z Maze
Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed a woody base system and then install the xserver-svga > required by my nVidia GeForce3 card and a window manager. That's from XFree86 3.3.6, which is still needed for some cards that aren't supported in 4.x. You almost certainly want xserver

Re: Installing xserver

2003-05-29 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 28 May 2003 21:33:41 GMT Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed a woody base system and then install the xserver-svga > required by my nVidia GeForce3 card and a window manager. Then from a > root command line I ran startx. However, all I got as a result was a > black screen

Re: Installing xserver

2003-05-29 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Haines Brown wrote: I installed a woody base system and then install the xserver-svga required by my nVidia GeForce3 card and a window manager. Then from a root command line I ran startx. However, all I got as a result was a black screen with speckles (not x's grey screen), with a set of blinking u

Installing xserver

2003-05-29 Thread Haines Brown
I installed a woody base system and then install the xserver-svga required by my nVidia GeForce3 card and a window manager. Then from a root command line I ran startx. However, all I got as a result was a black screen with speckles (not x's grey screen), with a set of blinking underlines. My guess

Re: can't find startx after installing Xserver-Xfree86

2002-11-14 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Debian - Woody - stable on an x86 machine > and then installed the package XServer-Xfree86 and > walked through all the configuration steps. At the end > when I executed startx it couldn't find the command! > What else do I need to install? >

Re: can't find startx after installing Xserver-Xfree86

2002-11-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Nimar Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I installed Debian - Woody - stable on an x86 machine > and then installed the package XServer-Xfree86 and > walked through all the configuration steps. At the end > when I executed startx it couldn't find the command! > What else do I need to inst

Re: can't find startx after installing Xserver-Xfree86

2002-11-13 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:44:22PM -0800, Nimar Arora wrote: > I installed Debian - Woody - stable on an x86 machine > and then installed the package XServer-Xfree86 and > walked through all the configuration steps. At the end > when I executed startx it couldn't find the command! > What else do I

Re: can't find startx after installing Xserver-Xfree86

2002-11-13 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Nimar Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14-11-2002 01:49]: > I installed Debian - Woody - stable on an x86 machine > and then installed the package XServer-Xfree86 and > walked through all the configuration steps. At the end > when I executed startx it couldn't find the command! > What else do I need to

Re: can't find startx after installing Xserver-Xfree86

2002-11-13 Thread nate
Nimar Arora said: > Hi, > > I installed Debian - Woody - stable on an x86 machine > and then installed the package XServer-Xfree86 and > walked through all the configuration steps. At the end > when I executed startx it couldn't find the command! > What else do I need to install? if thats the *ONL

can't find startx after installing Xserver-Xfree86

2002-11-13 Thread Nimar Arora
Hi, I installed Debian - Woody - stable on an x86 machine and then installed the package XServer-Xfree86 and walked through all the configuration steps. At the end when I executed startx it couldn't find the command! What else do I need to install? Thanks, Nimar

Installing xserver-xfree86_4.0.1-11.deb fails...

2000-12-16 Thread Thomas Besser
Hi all, I don't know, why I can't install this package on my debian (basicly potato and woody for kde2) and if it is a problem of my system or of the package?! All of the necessary and up-to-date packages are installed. On finally installing the xserver-xfree86 following error message appears:

Re: trouble installing xserver (solved)

1997-07-10 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Works. Thanks. Mike On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > > Hi, > > As MAKEDEV reports an error in line 18 of /proc/devices: > > > MAKEDEV: syntax error: Unexpected 'C', line 18, column 13 in file > > and that line contains: > > > 20 Mitsumi CD-ROM > > the problem is very likely to be

Re: trouble installing xserver

1997-07-09 Thread Joost Kooij
Hi, As MAKEDEV reports an error in line 18 of /proc/devices: > MAKEDEV: syntax error: Unexpected 'C', line 18, column 13 in file and that line contains: > 20 Mitsumi CD-ROM the problem is very likely to be the space in the module's name. I don't know if this is a bug in MAKEDEV or the Mitsumi

trouble installing xserver

1997-07-08 Thread Michael B. Taylor
I am having trouble installing xservers. I am attempting to install the mach 32 server and the vga 16 server. I have an up to date Debian 1.3 system from the stable directory. Here are my messages: mapleloop# dpkg -i xserver-vga16_3.3-3.deb Selecting previously deselected package xserver-vga1