Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 22 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Why don't they make a debian version with OpenBSD's kernel? It seems to > support most hardware, with a BSD licence. But then we can't run the > nVidia drivers, and perhaps not watch flash movies. Oh well. That would require someone who w

Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 07:17:20PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:11:16PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:09:43PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > If it has been backported to Etch, Lenny is so close now that I can > > Mmmm there is a thr

Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 22 2008, Chris Bannister wrote: > Mmmm there is a thread about DFSG violations in the kernel on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] which may delay the actual release. Looks like there > will have to be a GR to sort it out. > > I hope they don't "rip out" *too* much hardware support. :) The

Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:11:16PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:09:43PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Apparently nspluginwrapper allows flash on amd64. > > Last I checked with the maintainer, not for Etch amd64. Yes for Lenny. Ahhh! of course. At least you are

Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:09:43PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:42:34PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I have one video card and one monitor, running Etch amd64 with an > > Etch-i386 chroot for flash. I log in from the VT and run startx to get > > X going. I run

Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:42:34PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I have one video card and one monitor, running Etch amd64 with an > Etch-i386 chroot for flash. I log in from the VT and run startx to get > X going. I run icewm. > > I have my usual username for regular use and web browsing wit

[SOLVED] Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
> If I try: > /usr/bin/startx -- -dpi 100 :1 > > then I just get the gray X screen and no window manager running. I had them in the wrong order. This works: /usr/bin/startx -- :0 -dpi 100 for one user and /usr/bin/startx -- :1 -dpi 100 for the other user. Now it w

resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I have one video card and one monitor, running Etch amd64 with an Etch-i386 chroot for flash. I log in from the VT and run startx to get X going. I run icewm. I have my usual username for regular use and web browsing with javascript and flash turned off (actually, in amd64 there is no flash). I