On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 03:14:45PM -0800, Rick Loga wrote:
> I updated woody which is now Xfree4 and the docs say to run dexter to
> configure. Dexter wants my "xserver driver". What is that? The choices
> make no sense to me. My video adapter is a Graphics Blaster 3D with 4 MB
> memory made
At 3:14 PM -0800 12/8/00, Rick Loga wrote:
I updated woody which is now Xfree4 and the docs say to run dexter
to configure. Dexter wants my "xserver driver". What is that? The
choices make no sense to me. My video adapter is a Graphics Blaster
3D with 4 MB memory made by Creative Labs/Techn
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 04:06:35PM -0500, Casey Henderson wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just upgraded to XFree version 4.0.1. I am trying to configure X
> to work with my hardware and I'm not having much luck. I have read
> lots of posts about using the dexter program, but I don't have this
> program on
Neil Darlow wrote:
> On 11/10/00, 8:54:27 PM, Hubert Chan wrote:
>
> > Try adding
>
> > Option "NoAccel"
>
> > to the graphics device section in your XF86Config file (The section that
> has
> > `Driver "s3virge"'. It turns off hardware acceleration, so things may be
> > slower, but at
On 11/10/00, 8:54:27 PM, Hubert Chan wrote:
> Try adding
> Option "NoAccel"
> to the graphics device section in your XF86Config file (The section that
has
> `Driver "s3virge"'. It turns off hardware acceleration, so things may be
> slower, but at least it will work properly.
Are we t
Hubert Chan wrote:
> Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I had somewhat similar problems. Mine was horribly bad static all over th
> > escreen any time there was a screen redraw. Considering I've a clock on the
> > screen, it was pretty much unusable.
>
> Try adding
>
> Option "NoA
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I had somewhat similar problems. Mine was horribly bad static all over th
> escreen any time there was a screen redraw. Considering I've a clock on the
> screen, it was pretty much unusable.
Try adding
Option "NoAccel"
to the graphics device section
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Casey Henderson wrote:
> Now when I boot up Linux, it says "Starting xdm..." and then it drops
> me to the command prompt. (I had been using gdm, but I'm using xdm just
> until I get everything working). This never happened before. It used
> to be that it would say "Startin
Casey Henderson wrote:
> Ok, I'm really getting discouraged here. Here's the situation. I have
> a really old computer (about 5 years old), the video card is built onto
> the motherboard, it's an S3 Virge with 2 Mb of video ram. I was
I've also got an S3 Virge, though mine's with 4 megs RAM tha
Ok, I'm really getting discouraged here. Here's the situation. I have
a really old computer (about 5 years old), the video card is built onto
the motherboard, it's an S3 Virge with 2 Mb of video ram. I was
successfully running XFree86 3.3.6 with the S3V server, using
horizontal refresh rate of 3
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Casey Henderson wrote:
>Ok, I found the dexter utility and tried to run it. I got an error
> message saying something about "this program requires dialog". Can
> some kind soul tell me how to fix this?
As root:
apt-get install dialog
Martin
--
Linux - the last serv
Hi again,
Ok, I found the dexter utility and tried to run it. I got an error
message saying something about "this program requires dialog". Can
some kind soul tell me how to fix this?
Also, I was talking to a friend of mine who already has XFree 4
running. He mentioned that the S3 Virge s
Thanks to everyone who replied. I did a 'find / -name dexter' on my
hard drive and it didn't find anything, which I thought was very
strange. I thought the upgrade would have downloaded all the necessary
packages for X, but apparently not. I'll try all the suggestions and
let you know how it goe
go to www.debian.org, click on Packages and use the search on the very
bottom of the page. it searches for files in whole debian distro, shows
you were the files are.
I've seen the other responses already gave you specific package name
but this might help you anyway (in future)
erik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casey Henderson) writes:
> Hi all,
> I just upgraded to XFree version 4.0.1. I am trying to configure X
> to work with my hardware and I'm not having much luck. I have read
> lots of posts about using the dexter program, but I don't have this
> program on my computer. I sea
Casey:
It's in xutils (I believe). Make sure you down-loaded task-x-window-core. I
found I had to remove xf86setup and my previous xserver for 4.01 to work
correctly.
Eric Wolven
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:06:35 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casey Henderson) wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just upgraded to X
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