On Sun, 2 May 2004 22:57:49 -0400
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just out of curiosity: what desktop are you running with 2 MB of video
RAM?
Shirley not KDE or Guh-nome!
The choice of window manager is irrelevant. It's the video resolution
that determines whether it'll fit. A lightweight
On Tue, 11 May 2004 21:12:53 -0700
David E. Fox disseminated the following:
The choice of window manager is irrelevant. It's the video resolution
that determines whether it'll fit. A lightweight window manager at the
same screen resolution as KDE is going to use the same amount of video
I have installed Mandrake 10
Community.
It seems the X server crashes when I start X e.g.
startx
I have attached the XFree86 log. Make no
sense to me.
XFree86.0.log
Description: Binary data
Want to buy your Pack or Services from
On Sunday 02 May 2004 5:10 pm, Jason Jesso wrote:
I have installed Mandrake 10 Community.
It seems the X server crashes when I start X e.g. startx
I have attached the XFree86 log. Make no sense to me.
I think this is it:
(EE) ATI(0): Virtual size (1024x768) (pitch 1024) exceeds video memory
into it.
But now I really Mandrake 10.
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From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] X server crash
On Sunday 02 May 2004 5:10 pm, Jason Jesso wrote:
I have installed Mandrake 10 Community
On Sun, 2 May 2004 12:10:23 -0400
Jason Jesso disseminated the following:
I have installed Mandrake 10 Community.
It seems the X server crashes when I start X e.g. startx
I have attached the XFree86 log. Make no sense to me.
I'm no X-pert, but this *seems* to stand out to me:
(EE)
Great. I changed it to 16bpp. that works.
thanks
- Original Message -
From: JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] X server crash
On Sun, 2 May 2004 12:10:23 -0400
Jason Jesso disseminated the following:
I have
On Sunday 02 May 2004 6:05 pm, Jason Jesso wrote:
I have attached the XF86Config-4 file.
My video chip is on-board and has 2 MB memory.
The strange thing is that these setting are the settings I had 2
versions of Mandrake ago.
2MB is really small these days. Seems the default install
On Sun, 2 May 2004 13:47:29 -0400
Jason Jesso disseminated the following:
Great. I changed it to 16bpp. that works.
Just out of curiosity: what desktop are you running with 2 MB of video RAM?
Shirley not KDE or Guh-nome!
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Here is a problem I have had a couple of times. I spend time on the
net one night and everything is ok, I boot up the next day and my
X-server won't boot, the screen just flashes off and on black to blue. I
can't get in to server because I had it set to Boot to X-server. So
both times I have
When the display falls back, try CTRL-ALT-F2 to switch to a free console.
Sounds like something is playing with your permissions. To be on the safe
side, once you have the machine back up running, back up
/etc/Xfree86/XF86Config and your home dir - if it does go AWOL again you
can over-write
Dennis,
I think that you can hit ctrl-alt-backspace and it will exit the x-server
(or is it esc instead of backspace)... anyway, then you could run the
xconfigurator and see what settings you needed to change. Maybe this is
incorrect, but I had a problem (not exactly the same) where I had the
If you automatically boot into X at startup and subsequently X fails, do
not ssume that you have to do a reinstall.
if you are using LILO then at the boot prompt just type in linux 3 and
it will boot to a command prompt, from there you can login and as root
run Xconfigurator to fix or just to
At the LILO prompt when first starting Linux type "linux 3" -- w/o quotes.
That will take you to a text console, from there you can rerun your X setup
with whatever config program your prefer.
As to why you lose X config I have no idea.
HTH
Jaguar
Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is a
On 28 Jun 00, at 16:27, Dennis Myers wrote:
can't get in to server because I had it set to Boot to X-server. So
both times I have had to re-install Linux as a new install, and since I
haven't figured out how to back up data, I lose stuff. Nothing real
Okay!! Set your init default to 3 , ie
Jaguar wrote:
At the LILO prompt when first starting Linux type "linux 3" -- w/o quotes.
That will take you to a text console, from there you can rerun your X setup
with whatever config program your prefer.
As to why you lose X config I have no idea.
HTH
Jaguar
Dennis Myers [EMAIL
I've been trying to get through X not working and finally had to do an
ftp upgrade from the pub/linux/mandrake/current to reload the packages.
Now when I do a "startx" the server attempts to run, then crashes. It recognizes
my S3 Trio 3D chipset, but says there is no mode definition for "800 x
On 07-Mar-2000 Victor Richardson wrote:
I've been trying to get through X not working and finally had to do an
ftp upgrade from the pub/linux/mandrake/current to reload the packages.
Now when I do a "startx" the server attempts to run, then crashes. It
recognizes my S3 Trio 3D chipset, but
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