Bug#619177: Please mention that as of squeeze/6.0.1 XF86Config is not used anymore

2011-03-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
Package: release-notes Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Lu, 21 mar 11, 14:27:11, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > > > >  xorg-server (2:1.7.7-12) unstable; urgency=low > >  [...] > >    * Add 22-stop-searching-for-xf86config-files, cherry-picki

Re: SOLVED Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-10-01 Thread Martin Waller
o take me a day to get this stuff sorted - coudln't have done it without this list and tghe pateince of those who responded.. Sincerest thanks. I'll crawl back under my stone now Martin Martin Waller wrote: duh! My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use

SOLVED Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-10-01 Thread Martin Waller
list and tghe pateince of those who responded.. Sincerest thanks. I'll crawl back under my stone now Martin Martin Waller wrote: duh! My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot work out

Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Carl Johnson
Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Right - got X working (dunno how - just ran through dpg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg again with same inputs and suddenly it gives me > something) but with crappo resolution. > > Here's my Xorg.conf: (what dpg-reconfigure xserver-xorg wrote): > > # /etc/X

Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread s. keeling
Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling wrote: > > Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlity? I cannot > >> work out what package it's in. > > > > (0) hereti

Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:12:50PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > > I've been stumped before trying to configure X on an old sarge system. > What solved my problem when all else failed was to load knoppix, > then extract the needed info from knoppix's X config file. Ugly, but > effective. > I ne

Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 10:09:31PM +0100, Martin Waller wrote: > Right - got X working (dunno how - just ran through dpg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg again with same inputs and suddenly it gives me something) > but with crappo resolution. > It looks like its giving you 1024 x 768. What do you thi

Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/30/2007 05:00 PM, Martin Waller wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> Did you try dexconf? > I did now. It just did nothing - no error message, no output of any > kind, nothing. > Is it just me or was it easier when stuff wasn't dumbed down to > 'attract windows users'? I was never very qui

Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Waller
Right - got X working (dunno how - just ran through dpg-reconfigure xserver-xorg again with same inputs and suddenly it gives me something) but with crappo resolution. Here's my Xorg.conf: (what dpg-reconfigure xserver-xorg wrote): # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuratio

Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 06:25:49PM +0100, Martin Waller wrote: > My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use > xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot > work out what package its in. As you see, "The Debian Way" is to u

Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Waller
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:10:08PM +0100, Martin Waller wrote: Thanks for yours and other's input to my irritating problem :) Did you try dexconf? I did now. It just did nothing - no error message, no output of any kind, nothing. Changed nothing. Thanks

Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:10:08PM +0100, Martin Waller wrote: > Thanks for yours and other's input to my irritating problem :) Did you try dexconf? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital sig

[Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Waller
--- Begin Message --- Ralph Katz wrote: On 09/30/2007 01:25 PM, Martin Waller wrote: duh! My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot work out what package its in. Also, in the debian reference

Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Waller
s. keeling wrote: Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlity? I cannot work out what package it's in. (0) heretic /home/keeling_ apt-file search xf86config doc-linux-html: usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Xin

Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread s. keeling
Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlity? I cannot > work out what package it's in. (0) heretic /home/keeling_ apt-file search xf86config doc-linux-html: usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Xinerama-HOWTO/editxf86config

Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/30/2007 01:25 PM, Martin Waller wrote: > duh! > > My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use > xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot > work out what package its in. > > Also, in the debian reference manual, at &g

Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/30/2007 12:25 PM, Martin Waller wrote: duh! My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot work out what package its in. Also, in the debian reference manual, at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals

Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/30/07 12:25, Martin Waller wrote: > duh! > > My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use > xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot > work out what package its in. > >

'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Waller
duh! My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot work out what package its in. Also, in the debian reference manual, at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-xsrvr, it refers

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-13 Thread Serena Cantor
I believe human interface, used by USB mouse, is quite standard. Even Windows 98 has built-in support. I think 2.4 can do it. (I have signed off the list. Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you reply.) --- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > --

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What kernel are you using? > I use sarge's default kernel : 2.4 Try upgrading to 2.6. AFAIR 2.4 doesn't have a very good USB support. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don'

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-13 Thread Kent West
On 5/13/07, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use sarge's default kernel : 2.4 > Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In sarge, I enter "cat /dev/input/mice", it says "no such device" > > > > I know it's hid, I tried to load modules, it just does not work. I have, on my

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-13 Thread Serena Cantor
--- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use sarge's default kernel : 2.4 > Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In sarge, I enter "cat /dev/input/mice", it says "no such device" > > > > I know it's hid, I tried to load modules, it just does not work. > > What kernel are you

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In sarge, I enter "cat /dev/input/mice", it says "no such device" > > I know it's hid, I tried to load modules, it just does not work. What kernel are you using? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-12 Thread Serena Cantor
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/13/07, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks! > > in etch, it is auto-configed > > > > Now I want to config it in sarge. I enter > > > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > > > but I don't know which mouse option I should select.

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-12 Thread Kent West
On 5/13/07, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks! in etch, it is auto-configed Now I want to config it in sarge. I enter dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 but I don't know which mouse option I should select. and which kernel module I should load? In a text-mode VT, try the comm

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-12 Thread Serena Cantor
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have just bought a new mouse. It's USB optical > > > > how to change the lines in XF86Config-4? > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > with this shell command: > > dpkg-reconfigure > > and change the mouse configur

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-12 Thread heba
2007/5/13, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have just bought a new mouse. It's USB optical how to change the lines in XF86Config-4? Thanks! with this shell command: dpkg-reconfigure and change the mouse configuration. regard, heba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-12 Thread Serena Cantor
I have just bought a new mouse. It's USB optical how to change the lines in XF86Config-4? Thanks! You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

Re: I need help with XF86Config-4 :-(

2006-02-25 Thread Kent West
Sammy wrote: I cannot find anywhere online what the config should be for my PowerBook G4 (1.67GHz) with Radeon 9700 should be. I can't work the trackpad. All I get is a screen with X in the middle once I run startx. Where am I going wrong? Sorry, new user :S The gray screen indicates that

I need help with XF86Config-4 :-(

2006-02-25 Thread Sammy
I cannot find anywhere online what the config should be for my PowerBook G4 (1.67GHz) with Radeon 9700 should be. I can't work the trackpad. All I get is a screen with X in the middle once I run startx. Where am I going wrong? Sorry, new user :S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Struggling with Xf86config

2006-02-12 Thread pinecone
mPS/2"? Cheers, Jonathan I did make that change and it worked!  The other issue was that I was using a deprecated config routine which was not properly writing to the XF86Config-4 file.  It's now working fine, thanks for the assistance everyone. Pinecone

Re: Struggling with Xf86config

2006-02-12 Thread Adorean Alexandru Raul
Jonathan Kaye wrote: pinecone wrote: Now, the /dev/psaux is what Knoppix does for the same machne, so I tried it. Knoppix runs just fine and it is based on Debian so you can imagine MY UTTER FRUSTRATION! pinecone Have you tried changing the protocol to "imPS/2"? Cheers, Jonathan

Re: Struggling with Xf86config

2006-02-11 Thread Jonathan Kaye
pinecone wrote: > Now, the /dev/psaux is what Knoppix does for the same machne, so I tried > it. Knoppix runs just fine and it is based on Debian so you can imagine > MY UTTER FRUSTRATION! > > pinecone Have you tried changing the protocol to "imPS/2"? Cheers, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Re: Struggling with Xf86config

2006-02-11 Thread Ralph Katz
On 02/11/2006, pinecone wrote: > I'm running Sarge 3.1 downloaded in the summer. My XF86Config says: > Core Pointer's Input Section Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psau

Re: Struggling with Xf86config

2006-02-11 Thread pinecone
Xf86config and choosing most of the mouse options. What is needed here? pinecone Hi Pinecone, It would help if you gave us some details. Which Debian are you running, how your mouse is connected (ps2?, usb? serial?) etc. I'm using 2.6.12 Etch (now with Xorg not XFree86) with a PS2 op

Re: Struggling with Xf86config

2006-02-11 Thread pinecone
Jonathan Kaye wrote: pinecone wrote: I am unable to get X going from the installer because of a mouse problem.. The mouse is a plain old wheel mouse from acer but the install cacks saying there is no /dev/input/mice, even after lengthy running of Xf86config and choosing most of

Re: Struggling with Xf86config

2006-02-09 Thread Jonathan Kaye
pinecone wrote: > I am unable to get X going from the installer because of a mouse > problem.. The mouse is a plain old wheel mouse from acer but the install > cacks saying there is no /dev/input/mice, even after lengthy running of > Xf86config and choosing most of the mouse opti

Struggling with Xf86config

2006-02-09 Thread pinecone
I am unable to get X going from the installer because of a mouse problem.. The mouse is a plain old wheel mouse from acer but the install cacks saying there is no /dev/input/mice, even after lengthy running of Xf86config and choosing most of the mouse options. What is needed here? pinecone

Re: SOLVED (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-12 Thread jlquinn
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: Thanks again! Now I just need to get my Dlink DWL-G510 WiFi card working and all my dreams will have come true... Check the chipset: do an lspci and report back to the list what it outputs. If it's an Athero

Re: SOLVED (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > Thanks everyone for helping lead me to the solution. > > I had two problems: > 1.I needed to change the mouse to /dev/psaux and specify PS/2 and > 2. I wasn't updating the XF86Config-4 file ( I had read

RE: SOLVED (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
Thanks everyone for helping lead me to the solution. I had two problems: 1.I needed to change the mouse to /dev/psaux and specify PS/2 and 2. I wasn't updating the XF86Config-4 file ( I had read the note below but misinterpreted it ) I had been changing the config but didn't reali

and it's a good thing too (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-11 Thread Joris Huizer
again, run the following commands as root: # # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 >/var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Regards Clive Just to give you the idea of why this is a good thing :-) some yea

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?

2006-01-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/01/06 18:34), Erik Karlin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:49:38PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > > I'm very confused. Where does the XF86Config-4 file live? I thought it > > was in /etc/X11. > > > > I also thought that dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?

2006-01-11 Thread Erik Karlin
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:49:38PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > I'm very confused. Where does the XF86Config-4 file live? I thought it > was in /etc/X11. > > I also thought that dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 was supposed to > create a new XF86Config file. > > I di

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
Title: Message I'm very confused. Where does the XF86Config-4 file live? I thought it was in /etc/X11.   I also thought that dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 was supposed to create a new XF86Config file.   I did an experiment. I deleted (saved elsewhere) the XF86Config-4 file and

Re: can not edit XF86Config-4

2005-09-16 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Robert Kopp, > > > --- Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > dale schleyer wrote: > > > for some reason i am unable to edit the XF86Config > > file even though i am logged in as "root" > > > > >

Re: can not edit XF86Config-4

2005-09-16 Thread Robert Kopp
--- Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dale schleyer wrote: > > for some reason i am unable to edit the XF86Config > file even though i am logged in as "root" > > > > any help greatly appericated > > You need to give us more information

Re: can not edit XF86Config-4

2005-09-16 Thread Antony Gelberg
dale schleyer wrote: for some reason i am unable to edit the XF86Config file even though i am logged in as "root" any help greatly appericated You need to give us more information - the above is far too vague. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: can not edit XF86Config-4

2005-09-15 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 00:04 -0400, dale schleyer wrote: > for some reason i am unable to edit the XF86Config file even though i > am logged in as "root" You are not supoused to edit XF86Config manually as it will break the md5 of it (see top of file) you should use dpkg-reconfig

Re: can not edit XF86Config-4

2005-09-15 Thread Jörg Schütter
Hello dale, On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:04:29 -0400 (EDT) dale schleyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for some reason i am unable to edit the XF86Config file even > though i am logged in as "root" You are using which editor and get which error? Jörg -- Jörg Schütter

can not edit XF86Config-4

2005-09-15 Thread dale schleyer
for some reason i am unable to edit the XF86Config file even though i am logged in as "root"   any help greatly appericated__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: autoconfig XF86Config

2005-08-30 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
grexk wrote: Greetings, I just want to known any program that can easily detect your video card and monitor. And be able to create the XF86Config. Any help is appreciated...Thanks in advance. grexk $apt-cache show xdebconfigurator Package: xdebconfigurator Priority: optional Section

Re: autoconfig XF86Config

2005-08-30 Thread Abin
On 8/30/05, grexk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I just want to known any program that can easily detect your video card and > monitor. And be able to create the XF86Config. > > Any help is appreciated...Thanks in advance. I think you can try dpkg-rec

Re: autoconfig XF86Config

2005-08-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 05:03:40AM -0700, grexk wrote: > Greetings, > > I just want to known any program that can easily detect your video card and > monitor. And be able to create the XF86Config. > > Any help is appreciated...Thanks in advance. > First, try dpk

autoconfig XF86Config

2005-08-30 Thread grexk
Greetings,    I just want to known any program that can easily detect your video card and monitor. And be able to create the XF86Config.   Any help is appreciated...Thanks in advance.   grexk Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page

Re: Re: Can't change XF86Config-4 (Sarge i386)

2005-07-28 Thread Jesper Gertz
> Does /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum show '/etc/X11/XF86Config-4' > as the filename, or something else? If unsure, just post the copy of > your /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum ... No.. The path to XF86Config-4 was wrong. Many Thanks.. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Can't change XF86Config-4 (Sarge i386)

2005-07-28 Thread Kent West
Joan Andersen og Jesper Gertz wrote: >Hi > >I want to adjust my X -configuration. > >But the changes I make using "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" doesn't >change anything in my XF86Config-4 file. > > >md5sum of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 is the same

Re: Can't change XF86Config-4 (Sarge i386)

2005-07-28 Thread Wang Xu
> But the changes I make using "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" doesn't > change anything in my XF86Config-4 file. > Try `dexconf' after `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86'. It may help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: Can't change XF86Config-4 (Sarge i386)

2005-07-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/07/05 08:26), Joan Andersen og Jesper Gertz wrote: > Hi > > I want to adjust my X -configuration. > > But the changes I make using "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" doesn't > change anything in my XF86Config-4 file. > > > md5sum of /etc/X11/XF8

Re: Can't change XF86Config-4 (Sarge i386)

2005-07-28 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 28.07.2005 at 08:26 +0200, Joan Andersen og Jesper Gertz wrote: > I want to adjust my X -configuration. > > But the changes I make using "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" > doesn't change anything in my XF86Config-4 file. > > md5sum of /etc/X1

Can't change XF86Config-4 (Sarge i386)

2005-07-27 Thread Joan Andersen og Jesper Gertz
Hi I want to adjust my X -configuration. But the changes I make using "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" doesn't change anything in my XF86Config-4 file. md5sum of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 is the same as the md5sum listed in /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum. Thanks in advance

Re: Can't change XF86Config-4 (Sarge)

2005-07-27 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 27.07.2005 at 10:50 +0200, Joan Andersen og Jesper Gertz wrote: > Hi > > I want to adjust my X -configuration. > > But the changes I make using "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" doesn't > change anything in my XF86Config-4 file At the top of XF8

Can't change XF86Config-4 (Sarge)

2005-07-27 Thread Joan Andersen og Jesper Gertz
Hi I want to adjust my X -configuration. But the changes I make using "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" doesn't change anything in my XF86Config-4 file Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread easy.login
John Fleming wrote: - Original Message - From: "Hannes Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:05 AM Subject: Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X1

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Hannes Mayer
On 6/5/05, John Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Do others remember specific changes to this file? Original: [...] Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device"

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Hannes Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:05 AM Subject: Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Hannes Mayer
; mouse speed has decreased. (several (all?) XFree86 packages were > >> updated) > >> > >> The problem is that "apt-get" seems to overwrite/change the X-config > >> file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > >> So if you "apt-get upgrade" now, make su

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Marty
; seems to overwrite/change the X-config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 So if you "apt-get upgrade" now, make sure you have a backup of that config file. Based on a hunch, I am curious what is your debconf question prior setting? (To check it do "dpkg-reconfigure debconf".) Stra

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 07:28:06PM +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote: > > Yep, testing should still default to sarge, since sarge is not released. > I dunno if there is a difference between "apt-get upgrade" and > aptitude. I actually never use aptitude. > My XF86Config-4 w

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Upadte only updates the package cache, upgrade adds/removes packages. -ishwar On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Curious. I just used aptitude to update 'testing' (which still points > to sarge, right?), got _lots_ of x-server stuff, but nothing rewrote > my config file. Is there a d

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Hannes Mayer
i all! > > > > > > > > An "apt-get upgrade" last night broke my mousewheel. Furthermore the > > > > mouse speed has decreased. (several (all?) XFree86 packages were > > > > updated) > > > > > > > > The problem is that "

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
broke my mousewheel. Furthermore the > > > mouse speed has decreased. (several (all?) XFree86 packages were > > > updated) > > > > > > The problem is that "apt-get" seems to overwrite/change the X-config > > > file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > >

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Hannes Mayer
al (all?) XFree86 packages were > > updated) > > > > The problem is that "apt-get" seems to overwrite/change the X-config > > file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > > So if you "apt-get upgrade" now, make sure you have a backup of that > > config file. > &

Re: sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
t; seems to overwrite/change the X-config > file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > So if you "apt-get upgrade" now, make sure you have a backup of that > config file. > Strange, if you have customized XF86Config-4 (every should, as there is no default), it should (a) leave it alone

sarge: last night's "apt-get" overwrites/changes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2005-06-05 Thread Hannes Mayer
Hi all! An "apt-get upgrade" last night broke my mousewheel. Furthermore the mouse speed has decreased. (several (all?) XFree86 packages were updated) The problem is that "apt-get" seems to overwrite/change the X-config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 So if you "apt-get up

SOLVED__Re: XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-02 Thread Ridge Chittenden
e 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 XDMCP. When I log on to adam from > byron, > > I use an adam user account; the display is on > byron. > > (a

Re: XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-02 Thread Darryl Clarke
adam's gdm screen, which is > delivered by XDMCP. When I log on to adam from byron, > I use an adam user account; the display is on byron. > (adam has no monitor, keyboard or mouse.) > > Is it adam or byron that needs the XF86Config-4? If > adam, what sort of "monitor&quo

Re: XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-02 Thread Ridge Chittenden
The question: I want to slim down the machine as > much > > as I can (RAM is limited), and I don't want to > load > > stuff I don't have to. What do I really need in > > XF86Config-4 for a machine that never has a local > > display? Another way to put it is,

Re: XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
d, no mouse, no monitor. I > have XDMCP set up so that I can log in to an X session > on the machine from another machine on my home > network. > > The question: I want to slim down the machine as much > as I can (RAM is limited), and I don't want to load > stuff I don'

XF86Config-4 and XDMCP

2005-01-01 Thread Ridge Chittenden
other machine on my home network. The question: I want to slim down the machine as much as I can (RAM is limited), and I don't want to load stuff I don't have to. What do I really need in XF86Config-4 for a machine that never has a local display? Another way to put it is, does the vide

Re: Pb installe / configuration du xf86config

2004-12-01 Thread Andrea Vettorello
> s'est parfaitement déroulée. > > Je n'arrive pas à configurer le xserver et je n'ai donc aucun interface > graphique!!! que du code trop dur !! > > Lorsque je tape xf86config, le bas blesse au niveau du sync range horizontal > et vertical de mon écran ca

Pb installe / configuration du xf86config

2004-12-01 Thread pontier robin
e graphique!!! que du code trop dur !!   Lorsque je tape xf86config, le bas blesse au niveau du sync range horizontal et vertical de mon écran car je suis portable et je n'est aucune doc sur celui-ci. je ne sais donc pas choisir et lorsque le xf86 est configuré je tape startx pour lancer l'inte

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. > # (Ty

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"

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 s

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

XF86Config-4 not being modified by dpkg-reconfigure

2004-07-15 Thread Kent West
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 instructions at the top of th

Re: How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-06 Thread David Fokkema
d and i'm running > > > Debian Linux 2.4.26. > > > > > > I have had some trouble in getting this motherboard to work fine, but > > > now the ide, and ethernet are working as they should. > > > > > > The problem i stil have is how to config

Re: Re: How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-06 Thread Eric van Rheenen
h > > driver should i choose within XF86Config so that the X-Windows system > > wil start. I run xf86config but couldn't find the D865GLC. > > D865GLC is the motherboard and not the graphics chip. You would need > to look to find the graphics chip name instead. Google sho

Re: How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-05 Thread David Fokkema
are working as they should. > > The problem i stil have is how to configure the video chip. Which > driver should i choose within XF86Config so that the X-Windows system > wil start. I run xf86config but couldn't find the D865GLC. > > I have the same problem with the audio

Re: How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-05 Thread Ricky Clarkson
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:33:59 +0200, Eric van Rheenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a PC with an Intel D865GLC motherboard and i'm running > Debian Linux 2.4.26. > The problem i stil have is how to configure the video chip. Which > driver should i choose within X

Re: How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric van Rheenen wrote: > I have a PC with an Intel D865GLC motherboard and i'm running > Debian Linux 2.4.26. Sounds reasonable. > The problem i stil have is how to configure the video chip. Which > driver should i choose within XF86Config so that the X-Windows system &g

How do i configure XF86Config-4 for a iD865glc desktop system

2004-07-05 Thread Eric van Rheenen
hould i choose within XF86Config so that the X-Windows system wil start. I run xf86config but couldn't find the D865GLC. I have the same problem with the audio chips, i could find a chipset that i should use. I'm i overlooking something or Please advice Regards Eric --

Re: Problem XF86Config

2004-06-25 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:03:25PM +0200, Paal Marker wrote: > 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

Re: XF86Config problem serverflags section or xset - solved partly

2004-06-25 Thread Paal Marker
arker 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" Optio

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"

Re: Problem XF86Config

2004-06-24 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"

Re: Problem XF86Config

2004-06-23 Thread Pigeon
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 &q

Problem XF86Config

2004-06-23 Thread Paal Marker
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" Option "SuspendTim

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