Re: problems with X in hamm
Hi... Perhaps you should try downgrading to an older version of the X servers/packages? Alex On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 11:34:56 -0400 From: Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Carlo U. Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian Users Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problems with X in hamm Resent-Date: 17 Jul 1998 15:35:39 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Carlo U. Segre wrote: I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11. 1. No user outside root is allowed to start X11. This may be a configuration issue but I know that this did not happen in Debian 1.3 2. I use a S3 ViRGE video card and I am noticing that I have a corrupted text console screen when I exit X (running it as root, of course). This happens both when I am using the SVGA server and the S3V server. I am about to drop back to 1.3 out of frustration but wondered if these problems are just my incompetence... A similar problem was reported by Stephen Ryan in the debian-devel list. If he figures it out perhaps he can help you. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd Linux user at the Linux Counter -- http://counter.li.org/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: problems with X in hamm
On Sat, 18 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not using hamm, but is the wrapper /usr/X11R6/bin/X suid root? yes it is. Carlo --- Carlo U. Segre Associate Professor of Physics Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616 Voice:(312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494 http://www.iit.edu/~segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: problems with X in hamm
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Michael B. Taylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 04:16:08PM -0500, Carlo U. Segre wrote: I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11. 1. No user outside root is allowed to start X11. This may be a configuration issue but I know that this did not happen in Debian 1.3 Take a look at the config and Xserver files in /etc/X11. There are some short instructions there on how to edit these files to your liking. These seem to be OK. I have checked with 1.3 systems and the files are as they should be. Carlo --- Carlo U. Segre Associate Professor of Physics Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616 Voice:(312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494 http://www.iit.edu/~segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: problems with X in hamm
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: Hi... Perhaps you should try downgrading to an older version of the X servers/packages? Probably, I will do that but it will require installing 1.3 fresh since a downgrade of just the X packages is not possible. Carlo --- Carlo U. Segre Associate Professor of Physics Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616 Voice:(312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494 http://www.iit.edu/~segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: problems with X in hamm
I am not using hamm, but is the wrapper /usr/X11R6/bin/X suid root? On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Carlo U. Segre wrote: I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11. 1. No user outside root is allowed to start X11. This may be a configuration issue but I know that this did not happen in Debian 1.3 2. I use a S3 ViRGE video card and I am noticing that I have a corrupted text console screen when I exit X (running it as root, of course). This happens both when I am using the SVGA server and the S3V server. I am about to drop back to 1.3 out of frustration but wondered if these problems are just my incompetence... Cheers, Carlo --- Carlo U. Segre Associate Professor of Physics Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616 Voice:(312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494 http://www.iit.edu/~segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WEB: http://mills-usa.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * / -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: problems with X in hamm
On 17 Jul, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Carlo U. Segre wrote: I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11. 1. No user outside root is allowed to start X11. This may be a configuration issue but I know that this did not happen in Debian 1.3 2. I use a S3 ViRGE video card and I am noticing that I have a corrupted text console screen when I exit X (running it as root, of course). This happens both when I am using the SVGA server and the S3V server. I am about to drop back to 1.3 out of frustration but wondered if these problems are just my incompetence... A similar problem was reported by Stephen Ryan in the debian-devel list. If he figures it out perhaps he can help you. For the first problem, I only know of two things - the fact that /usr/bin/X11/X should be suid root, and the /etc/X11/Xserver should have Console as the second line, to allow anyone logged into the console to start the X server. Anything beyond that, and I'm lost. Sorry. For the second problem, I don't have a fix so much as a workaround, discovered in trying to troubleshoot the cause for my problem - nobody can run the X server, not even root, because it crashes every time with a Bus Error. This appears to be a bug related to some PCI based video cards and certain types of PCI bus controllers. In the course of trying to troubleshoot this, Gregory Stark passed on this neat hack: copied from a post by Gregory in the debian-devel list Incidentally here's a useful hack: in /etc/kbd/default.map bind Spawn_Console to some unused key: control keycode 127 = Spawn_Console in /etc/inittab: kb::kbrequest:restoretextmode -r /var/tmp/restoretext.regs and run: restoretextmode -w /var/tmp/restoretext.regs Then you can press that key combination to restore text mode after an svgalib app, or now X, has messed it up. On a multi-user system /var/tmp might not be a good choice for security though. I haven't tried this little hack for fixing corrupted text mode screens yet, as I'm still rebuilding my system from the effects of the HP recovery disk, which recovered my system by erasing all the partitions; it looks to me like you might need the svgatextmode package to use it. HTH, -- Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: problems with X in hamm
Carlo U. Segre wrote: I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11. 1. No user outside root is allowed to start X11. This may be a configuration issue but I know that this did not happen in Debian 1.3 2. I use a S3 ViRGE video card and I am noticing that I have a corrupted text console screen when I exit X (running it as root, of course). This happens both when I am using the SVGA server and the S3V server. I am about to drop back to 1.3 out of frustration but wondered if these problems are just my incompetence... A similar problem was reported by Stephen Ryan in the debian-devel list. If he figures it out perhaps he can help you. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd Linux user at the Linux Counter -- http://counter.li.org/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: problems with X in hamm
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 04:16:08PM -0500, Carlo U. Segre wrote: I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11. 1. No user outside root is allowed to start X11. This may be a configuration issue but I know that this did not happen in Debian 1.3 Take a look at the config and Xserver files in /etc/X11. There are some short instructions there on how to edit these files to your liking. I dont think the installation scripts would have overwritten these files unless you answered Y to the configuration file question for the applicable packages. 2. I use a S3 ViRGE video card and I am noticing that I have a corrupted text console screen when I exit X (running it as root, of course). This happens both when I am using the SVGA server and the S3V server. I am about to drop back to 1.3 out of frustration but wondered if these problems are just my incompetence... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
