Re: XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-02 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 09:56:34 -0800 (PST), Ridge Chittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > OK, but that's what I don't really understand. Which > machine is running X? > > Machine A (adam) is running gdm. From machine B > (byron), I log on to adam's gdm screen, which is > delivered by XDMC

Re: XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-02 Thread Ridge Chittenden
--- Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 04:17:38PM -0800, Ridge > Chittenden wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > (Another question, new thread Appreciate all > the > > help as I try to understand Debian and Linux.) > > > > I have a machine running Debian Woody that's

Re: XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 04:17:38PM -0800, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > Hi all, > > (Another question, new thread Appreciate all the > help as I try to understand Debian and Linux.) > > I have a machine running Debian Woody that's being > used as a server--no keyboard, no mouse, no monitor. I > h

Re: XF86Config-4 not being modified by dpkg-reconfigure

2004-07-16 Thread Ricky Clarkson
Erm, disregard that, I seem to have forgotten to actually read the email properly. On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:02:47 +0100, Ricky Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file: > > # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. > # (Type "man XF86Config-4

Re: XF86Config-4 not being modified by dpkg-reconfigure

2004-07-16 Thread Ricky Clarkson
In my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file: # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.) # # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make changes # before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or afte

Re: XF86Config-4 not being modified by dpkg-reconfigure

2004-07-16 Thread Kent West
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 15 Jul 2004, Kent West wrote: I've got a sid box on which I wanted to change the resolution, so I ran "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86". Afterwards, I took a look at the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, and found that it was not touched. I've seen this before, and follo

Re: XF86Config-4 not being modified by dpkg-reconfigure

2004-07-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jul 2004, Kent West wrote: > I've got a sid box on which I wanted to change the resolution, so I ran > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86". Afterwards, I took a look at the > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, and found that it was not touched. > > I've seen this before, and followed the instructi

Re: XF86Config problem serverflags section or xset - solved partly

2004-06-25 Thread Paal Marker
I found a solution for the xset problem I had. I had to change the line in home/user/.xsession: '/usr/bin/galeon --display=:0 -ndf' with /usr/bin/galeon --display=:0 -ndf | xset s off -display ":0" That was the only way to execute xset running kiosk-mode. But I do not understand completely why

re: XF86Config problem serverflags section or xset

2004-06-25 Thread Paal Marker
Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:58:42PM +0200, Paal Marker wrote: I need to prevent a box from blanking out. In redhat8 I could succesfully put this section in the end of /etc/X11/XF86Config Section "Serverflags" Option "BlankTime""0" Option "StandbyTime" "0"

Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-16 Thread Kent West
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: - Original Message - From: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reporting back as promised. As you can see its saying it can't find any compatible drivers for my Radeon. Also, I removed xserver-common and xserver-xfree86 and installed them from the exp

Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-16 Thread Kent West
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: 'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' Run "startx 2>errorlog.txt" and then look in errorlog.txt for any lines that begin with (EE). As you can see its saying it can't find any compatible drivers for my Radeon. Not real

Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-16 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
- Original Message - From: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reporting back as promised. > > As you can see its saying it can't find any compatible drivers for my > Radeon. > > Also, I removed xserver-common and xserver-xfree86 and installed them > from the experimental tree and

Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-16 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
> > Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > > > > >Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover, > > >xserver-common and x-window-system-core, used apt pinning to get > XFree86 > > >4.3 and re-ran xf86config > > > > > >'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' > > > > > >What can I do? > >

Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-15 Thread charlie derr
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover, xserver-common and x-window-system-core, used apt pinning to get XFree86 4.3 and re-ran xf86config 'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' What can I do? for what it's worth, here's what i use for X4.3

Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-15 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 10:10 PM Subject: Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000 > Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > > >Okay, so after some googling and help I'v

Re: XF86Config for ATI Radeon 9000

2003-12-15 Thread Kent West
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover, xserver-common and x-window-system-core, used apt pinning to get XFree86 4.3 and re-ran xf86config 'startx' still fails as does 'kdm' What can I do? As long as startx fails (X fails to start), kdm

Re: XF86Config-4 option for a Wide screen notebook

2003-10-06 Thread Hooman J
1:18 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XF86Config-4 option for a Wide screen notebook > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:55:09 +0200, > Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi, > > > > * Hooman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: XF86Config-4 option for a Wide screen notebook

2003-10-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:55:09 +0200, Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > * Hooman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-29 08:12]: > >The first problem that I have is that the my computer's native > >resoloution is 1280x854, but Xserver boots the system with

Re: XF86Config-4 option for a Wide screen notebook

2003-09-29 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Hooman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-29 08:12]: >The first problem that I have is that the my computer's native >resoloution is 1280x854, but Xserver boots the system with 1024x780. >How can I fix this problem. The graphic card is NVidia GeForce420 >32MB and the driver in XF86Config is "nv".

Re: xf86config problem

2003-07-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Tue, July 15 at 4:46 PM EDT > "Jennifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I found there is a file called" XF86Config-4", rather than " >> XF86Config". In this case, what should I do? >> >> Your any advice always be highly appreciated. > XF86Config-4 was named that way f

Re: xf86config problem

2003-07-15 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Tue, July 15 at 4:46 PM EDT "Jennifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I found there is a file called" XF86Config-4", rather than " XF86Config". In >this case, what should I do? > >Your any advice always be highly appreciated. XF86Config-4 was named that way for people who wanted to preserve the

Re: XF86Config and Gidday

2003-02-02 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi All & Sid, who is having some grief with gpm. In the end, I did not use gpm, because I could not figure out how it worked A wee pain, if you are only at the console face, but otherwise bearable, I found. YMMV. ON the other hand, Debian does come with "Aussie Detection Features," co

Re: XF86Config -> XF86COnfig-4 converter?

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:12:14PM -0500, Narins, Josh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello Gentle Debian Users; > > I'm running a chroot sid on a long-running stable box, and it works > well, except X (heh). > > Perhaps there will be other issues, but the main problem is that I > do

Re: XF86Config-4 and msttcorefonts

2003-01-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Bill Moseley said: > Can someone that likes their font setup, and has msttcorefonts and XFree86 > 4.2.1 post their "Files" section of XF86Config-4? > > I finally took some time tonight to look at my fonts. One of my problems > was that many applications were using the

Re: xf86config-4 setup problems

2002-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 06:32:02PM -, jerry k wrote: > Alan Chandler wrote: > >If you use the nvidia sourced driver the UseFBDev option works. (There are > >some debian packages (nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src) that will > >download the latest driver from nvidia's web site and make some d

Re: xf86config-4 setup problems

2002-10-28 Thread jerry k
Alan Chandler wrote: >If you use the nvidia sourced driver the UseFBDev option works. (There are >some debian packages (nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src) that will >download the latest driver from nvidia's web site and make some debs from >them which you can then install. Thanks for that, I've

Re: xf86config-4 setup problems

2002-10-27 Thread dave jk
I owe you one - it works !!! Posted e-mail at 8:20 Got reply at 8:25 Fixed by 8:30 Try getting help with windows this fast !!! dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xf86config-4 setup problems

2002-10-27 Thread Donald R. Spoon
dave jk wrote: Having just installed debian I have hit a problem. I have a nvidia riva tnt2 model 64 card and a standard monitor I answered all the questions on install but the XF86 crashed ... In /var/log/XF86config I get ... (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a (II) Module f

Re: xf86config-4 setup problems

2002-10-27 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 27 October 2002 10:11 am, dave jk wrote: > Having just installed debian I have hit a problem. > > I have a nvidia riva tnt2 model 64 card and a standard monitor > I answered all the questions on install but the XF86 crashed ... ... > The impo

Re: XF86Config-4 (sid)

2002-06-18 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 08:50:12PM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote: > I tested /root/XF86Config.new with XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new > successully, well done. > I think, but startx still tries to start with the wrong config > file. Should I rename this to XF86Config-4, and if so where do

Re: XF86Config-4

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 09:47:42PM -0400, Andrew Biggadike wrote: > I initially configured X to use a mouse type of ImPS/2, which caused > some strange behavior, so I changed it to PS/2 in the XF86Config-4 > file. It works well now, however when I did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' > it reverted back t

Re: XF86Config

2002-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:42:56AM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > | I am going to have to use an old, undocumented machine while I am > | on vacation for the next several weeks. > | > | I plan to bring my own hard disk with Debian installed, but my > | XF86Config-4 will not work with

RE: XF86Config

2002-04-22 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| I am going to have to use an old, undocumented machine while I am | on vacation for the next several weeks. | | I plan to bring my own hard disk with Debian installed, but my | XF86Config-4 will not work with this undocumented monitor. | | Is there any tool that will probe the

Re: XF86Config

2002-04-20 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:51:21PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I am going to have to use an old, undocumented machine while I am > on vacation for the next several weeks. > > I plan to bring my own hard disk with Debian installed, but my > XF86Config-4 will not work with this undocument

Re: XF86Config

2002-04-20 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:51:21PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I am going to have to use an old, undocumented machine while I am > on vacation for the next several weeks. > > I plan to bring my own hard disk with Debian installed, but my > XF86Config-4 will not work with this undocument

Re: XF86Config location

2002-04-03 Thread Simon Hepburn
Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:24:30PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have just installed Berlin (from unstable) on a woody box. Now when > > > I try to start x (with startx) I get this message: > > > > > > Could

Re: XF86Config location

2002-04-03 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:24:30PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have just installed Berlin (from unstable) on a woody box. Now when > > I try to start x (with startx) I get this message: > > > > Could not find config file! > > - Tr

Re: XF86Config location

2002-04-02 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:24:30PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > Hi all, > > I have just installed Berlin (from unstable) on a woody box. Now when > I try to start x (with startx) I get this message: > > Could not find config file! > - Tried: > /etc/XF86Config > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Con

Re: XF86Config-4 and Voodoo3 2000 agp botchup

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Hepburn
Could you post your XF86Config-4. Glen Snyder wrote: > I upgraded a machine at work to Woody. No problem at the start, gdm runs > fine, but both KDE and Gnome (Debian) crash on startup. I also recompiled > the kernel to 2.4.18 and installed DRI and agppart, but not improvement. > It looks like XF

Re: xf86config-v3 broken in testing

2002-02-05 Thread ben
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 05:14 am, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Hi > > xf86config-v3 seems to be broken in testing. When it comes to showing the > card database i get: > > ### >## Do you want to look at the card database? y

Re: XF86Config-4 from XF86Config ?

2001-12-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Alec wrote: > Hi > > Is there a utility that converts XF86Config into XF86Config-4? > its not quite the same... but you can use Xconfigurator... works nicely if your svga card and monitor is its db ( 1 minute and you're done ) c ya alvin

Re: XF86Config-4

2001-10-10 Thread Helmut Trinkl
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:45:56PM -0300, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: > Hi, > I was browsing through the archives to find a way to make the wheels of > my > MS Intellimouse work on X. I found a piece of configuration that should be > inserted on XF86Config: > > Section "InputDevice" >

Re: XF86Config-4

2001-10-10 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: > Hi, > I was browsing through the archives to find a way to make the wheels of > my > MS Intellimouse work on X. I found a piece of configuration that should be > inserted on XF86Config: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Gen

Re: XF86Config problems

2001-08-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Curt Howland([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I tried inserting the below: > > > Section "ServerLayout" > > Identifier "Default Layout" > > Screen "Screen" > > InputDevice "Keyboard" > > InputDevice "Pointer" > > EndSection > > a

Re: XF86Config problems

2001-08-30 Thread Curt Howland
I tried inserting the below: > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Default Layout" > Screen "Screen" > InputDevice "Keyboard" > InputDevice "Pointer" > EndSection and received an error that "ServerLayout" is not a valid section. I did add a

Re: XF86Config

2001-08-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:08:02PM +0900, Curt Howland wrote: > First, the answer to each and every question you had was, "I don't know. > All I did was run XF86Setup." [ snip ] I'm sure I'll be flamed for being elitist, but if you are going to edit your XF86Config you should really read the man

Re: XF86Config

2001-08-30 Thread Curt Howland
First, the answer to each and every question you had was, "I don't know. All I did was run XF86Setup." To this might be added "...a couple of times trying to get it right", which may answer why there is more than one display entry for a laptop, but again I can't say why. On to your specifics: >

Re: XF86Config for potato/dell inspiron

2001-08-20 Thread Greg Wiley
>From the "Answer your own quesition department": I got this kind of working. Here are the basics for those in the same boat. XServer: XF86_Mach64 XF86Config: [...] Section "Monitor" Identifier"LCD" VendorName"Samsung" ModelName "LTN150P1-L01" HorizSync 30-100

Re: XF86Config-4 files for new Dell Inspiron 4000

2001-07-19 Thread Andrew Over
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:30:07PM -0500, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > This pertains primarily to the Progeny configuration of XFree86 4.0.x when > run on a very recent (last few days) Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. I have the exact same laptop working happily with the 4.1 prerelease available from the X

Re: XF86Config-4 weirdnesses

2001-07-02 Thread John Carline
I never did get my XF86Config-4 working with FontPath "unix/:7101" I suspect it was a clash between the new font server with true type capability and xfstt, but I've been to busy lately to troubleshoot it. All I know is that once I commented out the "unix/:7101" line it worked for me. John B

Re: XF86Config-4 weirdnesses

2001-07-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:44:49PM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > I get no apparent errors in my X startup logs except it gets to > the end and says "(EE) No devices detected." and drops back to > text mode. > > Here's my logfile, for reference. Anybody got ideas? All I can think of is that t

Re: xf86config failed. Need help!

2001-06-20 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 02:37:46PM -0700, Tim Xu wrote: [starting X] | _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111 | _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111 | _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111 | _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111 | _X

Re: xf86config failed. Need help!

2001-06-20 Thread Hamma Scott
--- Tim Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > We baught the debian potato linux CD package, and > installted it on a new IDE > hard drive. There is error message came up during > installing selected > packages. The message is as below: > > Processing was halted because there were two many > er

Re: xf86config failed. Need help!

2001-06-20 Thread Andrew Dixon
Tim Xu wrote: > If I press [Enter], screen will be blak for a while, and the following > messages are came up. > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111 > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111 > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect : errno=111 > _X11TransSock

Re: xf86config keyboard question

2001-03-08 Thread kmself
on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:31:22AM -0700, Eric Richardson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > I've installed Debian 2.2r0 on a UMAX laptop and I am trying to get X to > run. The keyboard has 88 keys and I have SuSE running on an identical > box and it says "pc104" in the keyboard section of the XF8

Re: XF86Config for X version4.xx

2001-01-04 Thread Jon Pennington
Timothy Walsh wrote: > > Hi all, > > Is there a preferred Debian tool (if any) for configuring > the XF86Config file? I read that XF86Setup has been > abandoned upstream and doesnt support version 4 synatax. Try: $ deXter# debian tool $ XFree86 -configure# preferred, non-int

Re: XF86Config for X version4.xx

2001-01-04 Thread Frank Barknecht
Timothy Walsh hat gesagt: // Timothy Walsh wrote: > Is there a preferred Debian tool (if any) for configuring > the XF86Config file? I read that XF86Setup has been > abandoned upstream and doesnt support version 4 synatax. I took xf86cfg from xbase-clients for this task, but you can even use XFre

Re: XF86Config Missing

2000-12-02 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello * Mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > My friend has just reinstalled Debian Potato and upgraded to woody but > XF86Config seems to be missing so he cant configure x4 for his videocard. He > has a geforce 2 so he needs to use xfree4. It also seems to be missing on my > on my woody i

Re: XF86Config-4 for medion laptop?

2000-11-29 Thread Janet Borzuchowski 673-8297
Hi, I just completed an extensive search of the net to try and figure out how to configure an IBM ThinkPad 560E for XWindows running Debian Linux. I finally found an XF86config file that almost worked (I had a different kind of mouse), and now have XWindows up. (Ye

RE: XF86Config

2000-10-19 Thread Ingles, Raymond
> From: Lazar Fleysher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have a video card with small amount of memory and I was wondering > if it is possible to configure the xserver to change color depth > when I change resolution... Nope. Sorry. It's kind of complicated to do that, for many reasons. First, ap

Re: xf86config problems

2000-10-12 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:29:39PM -0500, Bob Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings, > > I ran xf86 config and everything seemed to go well until I tried to run > startx and got the following error messages: > > /usr/bin/x11/Xauth: creating new authority file /root/ .Xauthority > xa

Re: XF86Config Problems (Help!)

2000-09-28 Thread robhr
Use XF86Setup, it's MUCH easier. If it's not installed on your system (can't remember if it's a separate package in 2.1 or not), then you can find it in dselect under xf86setup or do an apt-get install xf86setup. I've never had a problem with the config file from this program, and without seeing

Re: XF86Config -- Made a mistake

2000-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >While I was doing a dist-upgrade, Debian updated my Xfree86-3.3.6. It >asked me if I wanted to keep the SVGA server as default, or make the VGA >server the new default. By accident, I chose the VGA server. Now, my >Blackbox runs at 2567 colors or so. > >How c

Re: XF86Config -- Made a mistake

2000-09-25 Thread Steve Juranich
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Joel Dinel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > While I was doing a dist-upgrade, Debian updated my Xfree86-3.3.6. It > asked me if I wanted to keep the SVGA server as default, or make the VGA > server the new default. By accident, I chose the VGA serv

Re: xf86config

2000-03-28 Thread Tolga KILICLI
It happened to my S3 Trio 3D too, if you wait a long time X starts but it is very slow. You can use frame buffer device. may be it could work.( I heard it works with TNT2 Riva's) On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Lee wrote: > When I try to 'startx' my X program will start, however it gets to a grey > screen

Re: xf86config

2000-03-28 Thread kmself
Your X configuration is working. You aren't running any X clients (programs which run under X Windows). What you see is the default X background and cursor. To add clients, take a look at your /etc/X11/Xsession file, or ~/.xsession. You can also launch your own clients from a console, say virtu

Re: xf86config

2000-03-28 Thread David Z. Maze
Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lee> When I try to 'startx' my X program will start, however it gets Lee> to a grey screen and has a cross in the middle of it, and it Lee> pauses, What do you mean by "pause"? Assuming the mouse responds, this means you've done most of the hard work of playing in

Re: xf86config

2000-03-28 Thread Brian Stults
Sounds like you need to add some lines to the .xinitrc file in your home directory. If it's not there, create one. A good start would be something like this: xterm & Of course, substitute whatever window manager you want to use (e.g. sawmill, enlightenment, fvwm2, etc.) If you want gnome, use

Re: xf86config

2000-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee) wrote: >When I try to 'startx' my X program will start, however it gets to a >grey screen and has a cross in the middle of it, and it pauses, ive >tryed various setups in xf86config. and nothing seems to work.. Have you got an .xinitrc, and does it start a window manager o

Re: XF86Config per user?

2000-03-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I'm having a related problem: I can change my resolution, but my desktop > doesn't adjust. > that's intended. the virtual resolution is always set to the largest physical resolution (or higher, when specified with the "virtual" keyword in the xf86config. there is no way (i know) to disable that

Re: XF86Config per user?

2000-03-21 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm having a related problem: I can change my resolution, but my desktop doesn't adjust. The setup: Running potato with latests debs, SVGA server (Matrox G200) I originally configured X with 1152x? as the default resolution. I am running GNOME and have tried various window managers (enlightenment

Re: XF86Config per user?

2000-03-20 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I use a single workstation at home. Recently, other family members have > started to use my system. The /etc/X11/XF86Config is edited by me for my > preferences, but is there a way to let users decide e.g. what resolution to > start their X session with. I like 1600x1200 but they might prefer

Re: XF86config

2000-01-17 Thread DĂ€nzer
--- Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have install Debian on my PC and start X sucessfully. > However, the windows and icons are to large. Althought I could cycle the > resolution by "++" , but I still want to start X at > correct resolution mode. > So I want to reorder the modeline in the "scr

RE: xf86config

1999-09-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Sep-99 Brian E. Lavender wrote: > It does not seem to be on my system, but I do have xfree86 3.3.3.1 > Where do I find xf86config? > > brian > -- > Brian Lavender > http://www.brie.com/brian/ in xserver-common -- Andrew

Re: xf86config

1999-09-05 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Alvin Oga wrote: > you might want to try [...] Xconfigurator too AFAIK, that is a RedHat tool that hasn't (yet) been Debianized. So you probably won't find it on a Debian box ;) - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: xf86config

1999-09-05 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > It does not seem to be on my system, but I do have xfree86 3.3.3.1 > Where do I find xf86config? Using the search at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages (at the very bottom of the page), i find it's in the xserv

Re: xf86config

1999-09-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... > It does not seem to be on my system, but I do have xfree86 3.3.3.1 > Where do I find xf86config? you might want to try XF86Setup or Xconfigurator too if you want to see if its on your system find / -name xf86config -ls have fun alvin

Re: XF86Config for Trident 3DImage975???

1999-06-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 03:56:31PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > does anybody has a working config file for this card? XF86Setup segfaults, and > with the result of xf86configure i get only a splitted screen in 640x400 Not sure, but that chipset may not be supported yet. http://www.xfree86.

Re: xf86config

1999-05-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> I'm completely new to Linux, so apologies if this is excessively thick ... > > I've been trying to get xwindows working. I've gone through xf86config, and > then when I try 'startx' it goes into what I assume is the xwindow > environment (blue screen, mouse cursor), beeps at me and appears to h

Re: xf86config

1999-05-21 Thread Michael Merten
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 10:48:57AM +0100, Stephen Minton wrote: > I'm completely new to Linux, so apologies if this is excessively thick ... > > I've been trying to get xwindows working. I've gone through xf86config, and > then when I try 'startx' it goes into what I assume is the xwindow > envir

Re: XF86Config help needed

1998-11-30 Thread Mark Phillips
Have you looked at the "Linux Hitachi Laptop Page"? Perhaps it might help? Anyway, it can be found at: http://www.ert.rwth-aachen.de/~schlaege/Laptop/Laptop.html I hope this helps, cheers, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/

Re: xf86config && libraries ....

1998-08-08 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Christopher Barry wrote: > Sounds like you grabbed the libc5 compiled communicator. You'll either > need to download older libc5 library versions of the above mentioned > libraries from section 'oldlibs' or you'll need to download the > Linux-glibc build of communicator from Netscape's ftp site.

Re: xf86config && libraries ....

1998-08-08 Thread Christopher Barry
Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > Hi, > > At the moment i'd two problems : > > 1. on my xf86config file I had the Videoram commented on Section > "Device": > > Section "Device" > #VideoRam 4096 > > I already uncommented it and X worked also! > Should I let such line commented

Re: XF86Config

1998-03-11 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Abou Anber wrote, I replied: Arrange your Modeline lines in the order you prefer: Modeline "800x600" 801280 1296 1512 1568 1024 1025 1037 1165 Interlace Modeline "640x480" ... Modeline "1280x1024" ... or whatever - make the one you like best the first entry, the one you like next best

Re: XF86Config

1998-03-11 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
Abou Anber wrote: > > At the first point of starting Xwindows the Screen like > > Linux (Bebian ) > > Login > > Passward > > at first time it look big size and I change the resolution by cntl+ alt+ + > the res

Re: XF86Config

1998-03-11 Thread Florian Attenberger
Abou Anber wrote: > > At the first point of starting Xwindows the Screen like > > Linux (Bebian ) > > Login > > Passward > > at first time it look big size and I change the resolution by cntl+ alt+ + > the res

Re: XF86Config question

1997-01-24 Thread Scott J. Geertgens
> Hello, all, > Anyway, when running X, I'm troubled by "streaks" (don't know > how else to describe them) at higher resolutions, which I suspect > are related to the dot clocks I've chosen. Namely, the higher > the clock, the more pronounced the streaking. This streaking > only occurs when t

Re: XF86Config

1996-11-02 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Lars Flodman wrote: > > I have a problem i can't get my xwindows to work properly my video card is > a ATI Mach 64 Praphics Pro Turbo 2mb and my monitor is a MAG DX 17. Does > anyone have an XF86Config file that works on that configĂșration. I can get > it to start when i use the vga16 server but w