Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-15 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote: [cut] > I found my keyboard/screen, and possibly the whole thing (don't > remember) would lock up when I had an S3, but adding the "nolinear" > option fixed the problem. This was with the older version, i.e. it > happened with 3.1 or 3.2. However, othe

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-14 Thread Kevin M. Bealer
Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: (clip) > >In any case, the XF86 3.3 packages are definitely broken. I'd fill out a >bug report, but unfortunately, I can't be any more specific than that >right now. > (clip) > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PRO

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-10 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > > > Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > > > > > [ Problems, "help!" ] > > > > > > > > This also reflects my experience exactly. HELP!! > > It works fine for me. I also did an upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 a

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-10 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > > [ Problems, "help!" ] > > > > This also reflects my experience exactly. HELP!! It works fine for me. I also did an upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 and noticed the following: XFree86 3.2 servers are not exactly the sam

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-09 Thread Ralph Winslow
Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > > I've seen other messages about XF86 3.3 not working. I am also > experiencing problems. I upgraded from 3.2 using the 3.3-3 packages, and > now when I try to startx, the screen flickers and goes black, and the > keyboard locks up. Nothing else. > > Unfortun

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-09 Thread Kevin Traas
> My flicker > (or more nearly pulsing (of xdm repeatedly trying to start?)) was quite > nasty, so I quickly rebooted with the rescue disk, deleted > /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm, rebooted from the harddisk, and downgraded. Is 3.3 > choking on my old configs? Or could it have been the S3 server? I had a sim

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-09 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, H Huang wrote: [cut] > I think the problem has something to do with certain newly added features of > XFree86-3.3, some of which actually are still in beta test stage. Possible, but should beta options be enabled in a stable package by default? > > I've got a clgd 5428 card.

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-09 Thread Christian Kauhaus
Hi! On 9-Jul-97, H Huang wrote: > Are you asking the debian maintainer to provide a *stable* XF86Config > setup file for *every* X server? There's no way he/she could do that. It's clear that this is impossible. But if this acceleration code is really beta, there should be at least a warning, as

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-09 Thread H Huang
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Christian Kauhaus wrote: > Hi! > > On 8-Jul-97, H Huang wrote: > > I've got a clgd 5428 card. Although X still works after the upgrade, the > > showdow portions of some buttons, scrollbars and arrows are not drawing > > well. > > I've experienced the same effects as well w

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-09 Thread Christian Kauhaus
Hi! On 8-Jul-97, H Huang wrote: > I've got a clgd 5428 card. Although X still works after the upgrade, the > showdow portions of some buttons, scrollbars and arrows are not drawing well. I've experienced the same effects as well with a 5426 card. Maybe turning acceleration off will solve the pro

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-09 Thread H Huang
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > > I've seen other messages about XF86 3.3 not working. I am also > experiencing problems. I upgraded from 3.2 using the 3.3-3 packages, and > now when I try to startx, the screen flickers and goes black, and the > keyboard locks up. Nothi

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-09 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
Thanks for the suggestion, but thats not the problem. I should make it clear that X worked perfectly fine before the upgrade. I have a pretty much stock Debian system also. Someone also suggested that I do a: X -probeonly >out 2>&1 Its a good idea, but it doesn't show any errors that I can se

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-09 Thread Igor Grobman
I had a similar problem. The reason was a corrupted ~/.Xauthority file. Try deleting it, and relogging on. That fixed it for me. HTH > > I've seen other messages about XF86 3.3 not working. I am also > experiencing problems. I upgraded from 3.2 using the 3.3-3 packages, and > now when I tr

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-09 Thread Stefan Baums
Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > I upgraded from 3.2 using the 3.3-3 packages, and now when I try to startx, > the screen flickers and goes black, and the keyboard locks up. > > I'm using the S3 server(#9 motion 771 card), and he's using standard SVGA for > his Trident I believe. > > In any

Re: XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-09 Thread Rob Browning
Christopher Jason Morrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've seen other messages about XF86 3.3 not working. I am also > experiencing problems. I upgraded from 3.2 using the 3.3-3 packages, and > now when I try to startx, the screen flickers and goes black, and the > keyboard locks up. Nothing

XF86 3.3-3

1997-07-09 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
I've seen other messages about XF86 3.3 not working. I am also experiencing problems. I upgraded from 3.2 using the 3.3-3 packages, and now when I try to startx, the screen flickers and goes black, and the keyboard locks up. Nothing else. Unfortunately, because of the screen blanking, I really