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On Monday 14 January 2002 3:00 pm, you wrote: > Send Newbie mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Newbie digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. XFree86 upgrade: howto? (Hmmm Hmmm) > 2. Re: X 3.3.6 vs X 4.1 which one? (Lionel Lecoq) > 3. Re: Why does XF86Setup work and XFree won't? (Lionel Lecoq) > 4. Re: XFree86 upgrade: howto? (Dexter Filmore) > 5. Re: X 3.3.6 vs X 4.1 which one? (Lionel Lecoq) > 6. Re: fonts look odd (Lionel Lecoq) > 7. Re: i830 support for Dell C400 (vesa) (Lionel Lecoq) > 8. RE: i830 support for Dell C400 (vesa) (Frank W Miller) > 9. XF4 - SuperProbe vs. XFree86 (Sean O'Neill) > 10. Re: XFree86 upgrade: howto? (Lloyd Osten) > 11. Re: Re: Re: [Newbie]ATI Radeon VE & Xinerama (Lloyd Osten) > 12. Re: XF4 - SuperProbe vs. XFree86 (Dexter Filmore) > 13. Re: Support for i830 on Dell C400 (Lloyd Osten) > 14. Re: XF4 - SuperProbe vs. XFree86 (Sean O'Neill) > 15. StartX wont start ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > 16. Re: Why does XF86Setup work and XFree won't? (Steve Wingate) > 17. Trident cursor hosed on latest CVS (Curtis Stanford) > 18. Re: Why does XF86Setup work and XFree won't? (Carl Wilhelm > Soderstrom) 19. Installer for OS X 10.1.2? (Bert Mahoney) > 20. Re: Repeated keyboard characters in X Windows > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 21. Re: Why does XF86Setup work and XFree won't? > (Lionel Lecoq) > 22. Re: StartX wont start (Lionel Lecoq) > 23. RE: i830 support for Dell C400 (vesa) (Lionel Lecoq) > 24. RE: noise on the screen... ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > 25. Success with CVS! (Lloyd Osten) > 26. can not run KDE (Abbaasi Hasan) > 27. Re: Setting default Window Manager__ (Eric Sprague) > 28. Re: ATI Radeon VE & Xinerama (gravsten) > 29. CVSUP and the xc folder (Gerardo Amaya) > 30. ATI Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 Pro (Alexei A. Inozemtsev) > 31. Re: StartX wont start (Ted Spradley) > 32. Re: ATI Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 Pro (Dexter Filmore) > 33. Desktop Environment, Window Manager, Xserver (Abbaasi Hasan) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > From: "Hmmm Hmmm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 16:10:02 -0400 > Subject: [Newbie]XFree86 upgrade: howto? > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi there! > > I am a newbie in Linux and need some help with installing an upgrade 4.1.0 > to my 4.0.0 xfree86 server. > > I installed redhat linux 7 one of these days and couldn get my gui running, > I could login using the root or any user account but when I tried to start > my xserver with 'startx', it said server crashed/no screens found. I then > discovered that my NVIDIA GFORCE MX 2 card is not supported by my xfree86 > server. So I need to install the 4.1.0 now. > > I am very new to linux/unix and I dont know yet how to download and perform > installation/upgrade to my existing xfree86. I have a dual operaing system > scenario on my machine (win98, RedHat Linux 7.0). > > Could anyone help me with how to download the tar files and untar them and > install while working under linux. I would highly appreciate if someone > can help me out with this. > > Greetings, > Vikram > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:49:48 -0800 (PST) > From: Lionel Lecoq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Newbie]X 3.3.6 vs X 4.1 which one? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > X -version > Lionel > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Kent Kostuk wrote: > > > Here's a fundamental question. How do I know which version of xserver > > > I am running. When I run startx (or try anyways) I see messages along > > > the line "compiled for 4.1" > > > > xdpyinfo | grep version > > > > HTH > > -Oisin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > --__--__-- > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:52:27 -0800 (PST) > From: Lionel Lecoq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Newbie]Why does XF86Setup work and XFree won't? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > you should use startx > startx will use which ever server X points to. in X 4.x.x this will be > /usr/X11R6/bin XFree86 in 3.x.x it will probably be the X wrapper which in > its turn will call your server... Lionel > > --- Kent Kostuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried the symlink and couldn't get it to work so I just typed > > /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16 from /etc/ to see what would happen. I got > > the following message. > > > > Config Error: /etc/XF86Config:48 > > subsection "extmode" > > Module section keyword expected > > > > What does this mean? > > > > Kent Kostuk > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > --__--__-- > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:54:07 +0100 > From: Dexter Filmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Newbie]XFree86 upgrade: howto? > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I think there are diffswhich can do the trick. A diff file is not the > complete program but only the differences from one version to the next, > maybe the comparison to a patch would be closer. you gotta head over to > xfree86.org, take a look at their ftp and somewhere there you'll find sth > like a file with 4.0.0 and diff in the name. guess there's even a short > manual on this in the package. untar: hmmm lemme see if i remember this > right: > tar xzvf <file.tar> > or, if you got midnicht commander, you should be able to dive into the tar > archive by selecting it and copy its content into a directory, just like > you would in norton in msdos/win. > > if you're not sure about the tar command (or don't trust me :), try > man tar > > and read. > > and read... > and read... > and read... > and read... > > :D > > Hmmm Hmmm schrieb: > > Hi there! > > > > I am a newbie in Linux and need some help with installing an upgrade > > 4.1.0 to my 4.0.0 xfree86 server. > > > > I installed redhat linux 7 one of these days and couldn get my gui > > running, I could login using the root or any user account but when I > > tried to start my xserver with 'startx', it said server crashed/no > > screens found. I then discovered that my NVIDIA GFORCE MX 2 card is not > > supported by my xfree86 server. So I need to install the 4.1.0 now. > > > > I am very new to linux/unix and I dont know yet how to download and > > perform installation/upgrade to my existing xfree86. I have a dual > > operaing system scenario on my machine (win98, RedHat Linux 7.0). > > > > Could anyone help me with how to download the tar files and untar them > > and install while working under linux. I would highly appreciate if > > someone can help me out with this. > > > > Greetings, > > Vikram > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
