[HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6

I tried to get XFree86 4.0.1 working on my laptop, but cannot. I decided to just downgrade for now, so I can use it. Here's how I did it, in case anyone else needs to do the similar. dpkg --list | grep '4.0.1-0' | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs --remove --force-depends --auto-deconfigure

off-topic: howto build x4-debs for potato

I wouldn't do it again (it seems like building plain x4 and installing it in parallel to the current x debs is the best choice if you must get new hardware working) anyway my experience: http://www-ti.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/~thiele/x4debian_potato_and_nvidia.html -- email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

VSZ memory of X

Hi My X uses 80M of VSZ but only 8M of RSS memory. The eight megabytes seams reasonably for an X server but why is the VSZ part so high? Does every program that runs under X request it from X and so raises X's memory statistic? I'm asking because I have only 64M and trying to save every bit...

Re: VSZ memory of X

On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 07:59:09PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: Hi My X uses 80M of VSZ but only 8M of RSS memory. The eight megabytes seams reasonably for an X server but why is the VSZ part so high? Does every program that runs under X request it from X and so raises X's memory

Re: VSZ memory of X

Hmm. Just last night, I decided it was time to go to sleep once my X got up to 192M of VSZ and 120M RSS. While quitting, my machine hung. :-/ Sysrq was good enough to sync and unmount, but not reboot. Oh well. Has anyone else noticed strange memory use with recent phase2 .debs? * Christian

Re: rendition support in dexter

On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 02:04:18PM +0200, Hein-Jan Leliveld wrote: In the latest phase2 debs (v20) it isn't possible to choose a rendition x-server in dexter. If I manually edit the XF86Config-4 file to add the rendition video card everything works fine. Sorry, this was an oversight. It will

[HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6

I tried to get XFree86 4.0.1 working on my laptop, but cannot. I decided to just downgrade for now, so I can use it. Here's how I did it, in case anyone else needs to do the similar. dpkg --list | grep '4.0.1-0' | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs --remove --force-depends --auto-deconfigure

off-topic: howto build x4-debs for potato

I wouldn't do it again (it seems like building plain x4 and installing it in parallel to the current x debs is the best choice if you must get new hardware working) anyway my experience: http://www-ti.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/~thiele/x4debian_potato_and_nvidia.html -- email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6

On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 12:49:39AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: I tried to get XFree86 4.0.1 working on my laptop, but cannot. I decided to just downgrade for now, so I can use it. Here's how I did it, in case anyone else needs to do the similar. I'd appreciate knowing what problems you

VSZ memory of X

Hi My X uses 80M of VSZ but only 8M of RSS memory. The eight megabytes seams reasonably for an X server but why is the VSZ part so high? Does every program that runs under X request it from X and so raises X's memory statistic? I'm asking because I have only 64M and trying to save every bit...

Re: [HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6

I'd appreciate knowing what problems you experienced, since Debian packages are supposed to be downgradeable. I did almost the same thing on my laptop the other day, except that I --purged a fair number of the leaf nodes in the dependency tree (all of the xfont-* stuff, and a few other things)

Re: VSZ memory of X

On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 07:59:09PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: Hi My X uses 80M of VSZ but only 8M of RSS memory. The eight megabytes seams reasonably for an X server but why is the VSZ part so high? Does every program that runs under X request it from X and so raises X's memory

Xfree86 4.0.1-0phase2v

I am trying to get Xfree86 to work on my Voodoo 3 - 3000 video card. I am running kernel 2.4.0-test9 and have libglide2 version 2000.08.08 installed. I get a segv from Xfree86, I have attached the messages that I get on stderr and have pasted in the back-trace from gdb on the core file. If

Re: VSZ memory of X

Hmm. Just last night, I decided it was time to go to sleep once my X got up to 192M of VSZ and 120M RSS. While quitting, my machine hung. :-/ Sysrq was good enough to sync and unmount, but not reboot. Oh well. Has anyone else noticed strange memory use with recent phase2 .debs? * Christian

xmessage

I was going to use xmessage to clear up the error mozilla gives on startup with an old .mozilla dir since running it from a menu gives no useful sign. The problem is that when I did xmessage -f /path/to/messagefile it showed no real text, just an empty white box, and an Ok button. Can anyone

sawfish-capplet and Nvidia's driver

I have a machine on which I'm running the latest phase2 debs. I have an Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS, and I am using Nvidia's drivers. 3D stuff is really fast, and X seems to work OK except that I cannot configure sawfish through the gnome control panel. Whenever, for example, I click the focus

Re: xmessage

The problem is that when I did xmessage -f /path/to/messagefile I'm using the 3.3.6 debs on this machine, but xmessage -f /tmp/x.msg gives me an xmessage containing -f /tmp/x.msg, while xmessage -file /tmp/x.msg works as expected. Perhaps you just need to spell out -file?

Re: xmessage

On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 11:34:45PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: The problem is that when I did xmessage -f /path/to/messagefile I'm using the 3.3.6 debs on this machine, but xmessage -f /tmp/x.msg gives me an xmessage containing -f /tmp/x.msg, while xmessage -file /tmp/x.msg works as expected.