Re: Getting xfree86 4.02 onto an isolated laptop
David A. Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have received a hand-me-down laptop - a Thinkpad 365XD with TFT display. I've got potato on it, but 3.3.6 doesn't work for my display (unless you count VGA16 yuck!). However, I just found a web site that says that 4.02 works well on the exact model I have. Here's my problem. I've only ever used the debian CDs and stable before. I've read how to get unstable stuff, but that only works well if you have a reasonable pipe to the net. This thing has a slow modem 28.8 and I don't have it working under Linux yet anyway. What's going to be the easiest way to get xfree 4.02 onto this laptop? Be as explicit as you are able, please. I'm still learning. If you can bring your laptop near a well connected linux computer, you can set up a link over the parrallel interface with plip. You'll get 40kB/s transfer rate. HTH -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting xfree86 4.02 onto an isolated laptop
I have received a hand-me-down laptop - a Thinkpad 365XD with TFT display. I've got potato on it, but 3.3.6 doesn't work for my display (unless you count VGA16 yuck!). However, I just found a web site that says that 4.02 works well on the exact model I have. Here's my problem. I've only ever used the debian CDs and stable before. I've read how to get unstable stuff, but that only works well if you have a reasonable pipe to the net. This thing has a slow modem 28.8 and I don't have it working under Linux yet anyway. What's going to be the easiest way to get xfree 4.02 onto this laptop? Be as explicit as you are able, please. I'm still learning. dar
Re: Getting xfree86 4.02 onto an isolated laptop
On Wednesday Sep 12 16:44 David A. Rogers wrote: ** I have received a hand-me-down laptop - a Thinkpad 365XD with TFT display. ** I've got potato on it, but 3.3.6 doesn't work for my display (unless you ** count VGA16 yuck!). However, I just found a web site that says that 4.02 ** works well on the exact model I have. ** ** Here's my problem. I've only ever used the debian CDs and stable before. ** I've read how to get unstable stuff, but that only works well if you have a ** reasonable pipe to the net. This thing has a slow modem 28.8 and I don't ** have it working under Linux yet anyway. ** ** What's going to be the easiest way to get xfree 4.02 onto this laptop? Be ** as explicit as you are able, please. I'm still learning. Much Linux magazines includes a CD-Rom. You could look by some newsdealers if there is a magazine with a CD that includes the newest .deb files of XFree86. Sorry! But i can't give you a suggestion which magazine at this time has a CD with XFree86 for Debian. Timo -- Wer Käse mag, der futtert auch Füsse! :-)
Re: Getting xfree86 4.02 onto an isolated laptop
David A. Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's going to be the easiest way to get xfree 4.02 onto this laptop? A friend with a fast pipe and a cd burner? -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! Cats do pay attention. Just plug them into the 240v line.
Re: Getting xfree86 4.02 onto an isolated laptop
I have a fast (sort of) pipe at work, a cd burner at home and a scsi drive to carry stuff back and forth. So what do I do? dar On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 01:37:48PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: David A. Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's going to be the easiest way to get xfree 4.02 onto this laptop? A friend with a fast pipe and a cd burner? -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! Cats do pay attention. Just plug them into the 240v line. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting xfree86 4.02 onto an isolated laptop
On 12 Sep 2001, David A. Rogers wrote: I have received a hand-me-down laptop - a Thinkpad 365XD with TFT display. I've got potato on it, but 3.3.6 doesn't work for my display (unless you count VGA16 yuck!). However, I just found a web site that says that 4.02 works well on the exact model I have. Here's my problem. I've only ever used the debian CDs and stable before. I've read how to get unstable stuff, but that only works well if you have a reasonable pipe to the net. This thing has a slow modem 28.8 and I don't have it working under Linux yet anyway. What's going to be the easiest way to get xfree 4.02 onto this laptop? Be as explicit as you are able, please. I'm still learning. Do you have access somewhere else to a cd burner? I believe there is a cd image floating around of extra debs for potato, and I think this includes recent versions of xfree. See recent posts on debianplanet.org. But really, if I were you I'd give high priority to getting your modem working. I think it would be perfectly possible to download xfree even over a 28.8. Apt and other debian tools are quite intelligent in that they know if you have done part of a download and can pick up where they left off if interrupted. So you could do this in several stages. A more important question is, how expensive is your dialup access? Here in the US it is relatively cheap, but in Germany I think it will be more expensive. so maybe a CD image would be better because of that. Contact me if you think I can be of further help. Sincerely, faheem Mitha.
XFree86 4.02
Currently I can't get XFree86 4.02 up and running, I am using sid. Here is the error message Iget: X: cannoy stat /etc/X11/X What is going wrong here?
Re: XFree86 4.02
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, John Beining wrote: Currently I can't get XFree86 4.02 up and running, I am using sid. Here is the error message Iget: X: cannoy stat /etc/X11/X What is going wrong here? This could be because /etc/X11/X doesn't exist. It seems that by default X4 lokks for the server in this spot. Try symlinking /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 to /etc/X11/X if /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 isn't there then you need to install the actual X server (this didn't happen automatically for me when I upgrade) so apt-get install xserver-xfree86 cheers Today people in droves hurry up past Heumoz to Villars on the road to the ski hills, so they can rush down them as fast as possible, so they can hurry up again in order to rush down again. In a way this is funny,... Francis A Schaeffer David Purton http://www.chariot.net.au/~dcpurton/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.02 eating CPU
On 30 Jan 2001, Reine Johansson wrote: Hi! Just upgraded to XFree86 4.02 (with a little trouble) on my woody-box (Linux 2.4.1). After using it a while I noticed that while playing a mp3 and scrolling the Netscape-window the sound from the mp3 got distorted. I thought this was very strange cause I've never experienced anything like this on this machine (Dual Celeron 533). Then I ran top a saw that the process X had a nicevalue of -10. The processes state was marked as S (which is High Priority Process). I asked a friend who is also using XFree86 4.02 and he had a nice-value of 0. Have anyone experienced the same. Any suggestions? TIA! /Reine Top shows the same thing on my machine, but this doesn't seem to affect playing sound. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical essays: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably absurd. It is the chief occupation of mankind. - H.L. Mencken
XFree86 4.02 eating CPU
Hi! Just upgraded to XFree86 4.02 (with a little trouble) on my woody-box (Linux 2.4.1). After using it a while I noticed that while playing a mp3 and scrolling the Netscape-window the sound from the mp3 got distorted. I thought this was very strange cause I've never experienced anything like this on this machine (Dual Celeron 533). Then I ran top a saw that the process X had a nicevalue of -10. The processes state was marked as S (which is High Priority Process). I asked a friend who is also using XFree86 4.02 and he had a nice-value of 0. Have anyone experienced the same. Any suggestions? TIA! /Reine
Re: XFree86 4.02 eating CPU
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Reine Johansson wrote: Hi! Just upgraded to XFree86 4.02 (with a little trouble) on my woody-box (Linux 2.4.1). After using it a while I noticed that while playing a mp3 and scrolling the Netscape-window the sound from the mp3 got distorted. I thought this was very strange cause I've never experienced anything like this on this machine (Dual Celeron 533). Then I ran top a saw that the process X had a nicevalue of -10. The processes state was marked as S (which is High Priority Process). I asked a friend who is also using XFree86 4.02 and he had a nice-value of 0. Have anyone experienced the same. Any suggestions? TIA! /Reine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought your problem was interesting because I had not noticed any slowdowns with mp3 or netscape. In fact, I run gkrellm and I keep a close watch @ the numbers. After reading your mail, I openned top to see for myself what you are talking about and noticed that X was NI=0. But in a matter of seconds (while top was running) the value became -10! I also upgraded X, just few days ago. (woody) RAccess #geeks/irc.openprojects.net -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS GIT GP d- s+: a-- C+++ ULSB+++ P+ L+++ E+ W+++ N+ o K- w--- O- M-- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5-- X++ R* tv-- b+ DI+ D- G++ e h! r* !y+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
XFree86-4.02, a laptop and an external monitor
Hi all, I've a problem while connecting an external monitor to my laptop. I had a configuration working for XFree86 3.3.6 that allowed me to use my laptop at a 1024x768 resolution. If I connected an external monitor to it, and with the LDC-display disabled, X worked with a 1280x1024 resolution on the external monitor. I see in the XFree86.x.log that both my LCD and external display are detected (the external display gets detected first), but I can't get X using my external display at 1280x1024. I'm running XFree86 4.02 (ATI 64 driver) from unstable. Any ideas? -- Jordi
Xfree86 4.02?
Hello all, does anyone know where i can apt-get Xfree 4.02? I tried installing 4.01 however i ended up with a broken X, i believe that was due to the lack of an X_server but i'm not certain. Has anyone has previously installed 4.01 (or preferably 4.02) succesfully that can tell me how to do the same? William Leese
Re: Xfree86 4.02?
The debs are in debian/pool: you can get them by adding unstable to your apt sources list (apt-setup will do it fine for you). I did it by hand, because I didn't want to change my apt settings, the files I got are: libfreetype6_2.0.1-1.debxserver-common_4.0.2-1_i386.deb xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb xserver-xfree86_4.0.2-1_i386.deb xfree86-common_4.0.2-1_all.deb xterm_4.0.2-1_i386.deb xfs_4.0.2-1_i386.debxutils_4.0.2-1_i386.deb xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb xvfb_4.0.2-1_i386.deb I don't think that _all_ are necessary and I guess that you could add some more After you've dpkg-ed everything (or apt-ed), run xf86cfg or XF86Setup. They will probe and/or ask for your hardware and write the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. End of Plug, start of Play: I had some problems with that but it was because of the bloody nv/nvidia drivers that were rotten. I also had a problem that X4 didn't flush X3 correctly, so that startx was calling X3.3.6. Fixed it by symlinking /usr/X11R6/bin/X to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86. It feels a bit dirty though. Anyway in case of problem, take a peek at /var/log/XFree86.?.log HTH Romain William Leese wrote: Hello all, does anyone know where i can apt-get Xfree 4.02? I tried installing 4.01 however i ended up with a broken X, i believe that was due to the lack of an X_server but i'm not certain. Has anyone has previously installed 4.01 (or preferably 4.02) succesfully that can tell me how to do the same? William Leese -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
