Re: Re: xfree86 4.0

2001-06-12 Thread MRZ
> In reply to:Eduardo Gargiulo > > Quoting Eduardo Gargiulo([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi all. > > > > How can I upgrade my potato_r0 to install xfree86 v4.x? > > You would have found that question answered if you had look tru the > archives. All these details are 100% in the archives, just look usi

Re: xfree86 4.0

2001-06-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: xfree86 4.0 Date: Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:59:27PM -0300 In reply to:Eduardo Gargiulo Quoting Eduardo Gargiulo([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all. > > How can I upgrade my potato_r0 to install xfree86 v4.x? You would have found that question answered if you had look tru the a

Re: XFree86 4.0.x & tdfx DRI

2001-05-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Ian Eure wrote: > has anyone out there been able to get DRI working properly with XFree86 > 4.0.x and a 3dfx board? > > it _seems_ to work, but framerates are low... not at low as with software > rendering, but low. i also get horrible flicker when polygons are redrawn. > > i was told that install

Re: XFree86 4.0.x & tdfx DRI

2001-05-17 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> irt point 1, i have the agpgart & tdfx modules that came with 2.4.4 loaded > - afaik the dri stuff is all loaded in the x server, not the kernel. am i > wrong on this point? > > i'm running in 16bpp, and i have xlib[os]mesa3 installed. >From what I remember, you can get dri from both kernel sou

Re: XFree86 4.0.x & tdfx DRI

2001-05-17 Thread Ian Eure
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:05:23 -0500 (CDT) > From: Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ian Eure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.x & tdfx DRI > > > has anyon

Re: XFree86 4.0.x & tdfx DRI

2001-05-17 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> has anyone out there been able to get DRI working properly with XFree86 > 4.0.x and a 3dfx board? > > it _seems_ to work, but framerates are low... not at low as with software > rendering, but low. i also get horrible flicker when polygons are redrawn. > > i was told that installing libglide3 w

Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

2001-02-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > The virtual resolution is by default set to the maximum resolution > > for the display (I think). In the display section add the line: > > > > Virtual 1024 768 > > > > You might not be able to switch to a larg

Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

2001-02-08 Thread judd
On 8 Feb, John Foster wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> The virtual resolution is by default set to the maximum resolution >> for the display (I think). In the display section add the line: >> >> Virtual 1024 768 >> >> You might not be able to switch to a larger display, howeve

Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

2001-02-08 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The virtual resolution is by default set to the maximum resolution > for the display (I think). In the display section add the line: > > Virtual 1024 768 > > You might not be able to switch to a larger display, however. See > man XF86Config. > > -Chris -

Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

2001-02-07 Thread judd
On 7 Feb, John Foster wrote: > Damon Muller wrote: >> While I don't know anything much about X4 modelines, and for myself >> using the monitor's onscreen display was enough to fix it up, for your >> problem of starting in the wrong resolution there is an easy fix. >> >> Under section `screen', go

Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

2001-02-07 Thread David Wright
I think I misunderstood your previous posting where you said "In the past I have been able to correct this" so I assumed you were trying to do something that was possible in V3. In fact, you didn't correct it, you just lived with it. > Thanks. I already did that. I'm a perfectionist and prefer to

Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

2001-02-07 Thread John Foster
Damon Muller wrote: > While I don't know anything much about X4 modelines, and for myself > using the monitor's onscreen display was enough to fix it up, for your > problem of starting in the wrong resolution there is an easy fix. > > Under section `screen', go to the line that represents the colo

Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

2001-02-07 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth John Foster, > I recently upgraded to a full woody/testing installation. After a few > hours of reading & experimenting with "xf86configure" I got the new > XFree86 4.0 server to work well. I still have 1 problem. The > resolutions that are accepted on my monitor are "640x480" "800x600" >

Re: XFree86-4.0 screen resolution missmatched with monitor viewing area

2001-02-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I recently upgraded to a full woody/testing installation. After a few > hours of reading & experimenting with "xf86configure" I got the new > XFree86 4.0 server to work well. I still have 1 problem. The > resolutions that are accepted on my monitor are "

Re: XFree86 4.0 and the testing distribution

2000-12-21 Thread Rob VanFleet
Xfree86 4.x isn't included in the testing tree yet. The way I understand it, it will be added eventually. I *think* that woody is now the same as the testing tree, but the less stable packages in woody got bumped into the new unstable. People who were running woody before the testing tree came a

Re: XFree86 4.0

2000-11-28 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > if i don't upgrade to woody, would it be better to do this from source > packages? > > i'm wondering if X will be linked against woody libraries... In my opinion it should be much more less truble to upgrade only some packages to woody. Then at lea

Re: XFree86 4.0

2000-11-28 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
n user mailing list > Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0 > > Hi! > > I think you want to stick to the package system. > > If you use apt-get, change the /etc/apt/sources.list so that it points to > unstable, then make an > >apt-get update > > then a > >a

Re: XFree86 4.0

2000-11-28 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jeffrey A Schoolcraft wrote: > * Martin Fluch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >apt-get install xserver-xfree86 > > > > (this will update not all of your system, but only the part needed by the > > dependencies) > > > > Then fidle around until you get it running, you mi

Re: XFree86 4.0

2000-11-27 Thread Jeffrey A Schoolcraft
* Martin Fluch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >apt-get install xserver-xfree86 > > (this will update not all of your system, but only the part needed by the > dependencies) > > Then fidle around until you get it running, you might need to update some > other X related packages. after I did th

Re: XFree86 4.0

2000-11-27 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! I think you want to stick to the package system. If you use apt-get, change the /etc/apt/sources.list so that it points to unstable, then make an apt-get update then a apt-get install xserver-xfree86 (this will update not all of your system, but only the part needed by the depende

Re: XFree86 4.0 debs ?

2000-05-31 Thread M. Tavasti
Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS. Make sure to keep the old 3, just in case anything goes wrong, I > didn't the first time, something went wrong, so I tried to fix it and > messed up my system even more. At the end I decided to reinstall the > system, because it was the fastest way o

gs, wmaker debs? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0 debs ?)

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 23 May 2000, James Sleeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to install XFree 4.0 on my potato machine, are there debs >available yet, or not too far off ? I couldn't even see 4.0 ones in Woody. Take a look at http://www.debian.org/~branden/plans.txt. It seems like the move to the

Re: XFree86 4.0 debs ?

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
There aren't any deb (yet), but you can compile the sources yourself, works fine here! Ron Rademaker PS. Make sure to keep the old 3, just in case anything goes wrong, I didn't the first time, something went wrong, so I tried to fix it and messed up my system even more. At the end I decided to re

Re: XFree86 4.0 deb

2000-05-17 Thread SCOTT FENTON
They don't exist yet. Michael O'Brien wrote: > > Hola~ > > Anyone know of the location of an xfree86 4.0 deb file? > > MO > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: XFree86 4.0 and Xterm colors...

2000-05-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 06:02:07PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > I've installed, and managed to get working, XFree86 4.0. The only big > problem remaining is that all of the terminal colors are really weird. > I now get pink on magenta and other generally unreadable color > combinations when I r

Re: XFree86-4.0 and xauth

2000-04-25 Thread Brad
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 07:10:59PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > I upgraded to XFree86-4.0 recently, and now xauth doesn't seem to work. i don't use XFree86-4.0 yet, but here's guess or two. > I usually use ssh to work on my unix account at work and to do so, I > have a script that looks like thi