Re: how to reconfigure X after video card change
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Default User wrote: How do I configure the Sarge system to use the new card (I really don't want to reinstall from scratch . . .) ? As root, try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 hth raju Do as raju says and choose the 'sis' driver in the video section. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to reconfigure X after video card change
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Default User wrote: How do I configure the Sarge system to use the new card (I really don't want to reinstall from scratch . . .) ? As root, try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Very likely, you would like to read the header of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and read the instructions (if any) or trying to write a new configuration. Mine are: cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 HTH, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to reconfigure X after video card change [SOLVED]
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 21:19 -0500, Default User wrote: Running i586 Debian stable, I just took out an ATI Rage video card (pci) and replaced it with a no name SiS (agp) video card. Now the system starts up, but won't load GDM, instead terminating with an error message and asking if I want to see the details. The new video card seems okay, since I can boot right into X on the current Knoppix okay. How do I configure the Sarge system to use the new card (I really don't want to reinstall from scratch . . .) ? IIRC, isn't there a reconfigure shell command that can be run from console mode that allows manual setup of monitor, video card, keyboard, mouse, etc? The dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 command was indeed what I was looking for, and it worked. (And yes, I did back up my X config file first). Thanks guys. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to reconfigure X after video card change
Running i586 Debian stable, I just took out an ATI Rage video card (pci) and replaced it with a no name SiS (agp) video card. Now the system starts up, but won't load GDM, instead terminating with an error message and asking if I want to see the details. The new video card seems okay, since I can boot right into X on the current Knoppix okay. How do I configure the Sarge system to use the new card (I really don't want to reinstall from scratch . . .) ? IIRC, isn't there a reconfigure shell command that can be run from console mode that allows manual setup of monitor, video card, keyboard, mouse, etc? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to reconfigure X after video card change
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:19:00PM -0500, Default User wrote: Running i586 Debian stable, I just took out an ATI Rage video card (pci) and replaced it with a no name SiS (agp) video card. Now the system starts up, but won't load GDM, instead terminating with an error message and asking if I want to see the details. The new video card seems okay, since I can boot right into X on the current Knoppix okay. How do I configure the Sarge system to use the new card (I really don't want to reinstall from scratch . . .) ? IIRC, isn't there a reconfigure shell command that can be run from console mode that allows manual setup of monitor, video card, keyboard, mouse, etc? On sarge, look in /etc/X11/XF86Config to see what tool was used to generate it. I have a wierd setup so I needed to run xf86config-v3 so I can't advise you there. Likely its just dpkg-reconfigure of whatever package it is that's supposed to manage that file. In any event, please do not reinstall from scratch. This _is_ Debian. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to reconfigure X after video card change
Default User wrote: How do I configure the Sarge system to use the new card (I really don't want to reinstall from scratch . . .) ? As root, try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: capturing X to video
also sprach Charlie Reiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.11.22.1820 +0100]: I don't know for sure but it should be pretty good. VNC is designed for interactive use and it will vary depending on your application. VNC compresses image data before transmitting it so Photoshop would not be a good choice, nor would fancy window decorations and spiffy root images. Think simple, flat, and not antialiased. The good news is VNC already has record and playback features. See: I will look into that... -- .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system msg14830/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: capturing X to video
also sprach Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.11.21.1833 +0100]: Could you describe more precisely what you mean by video? Would a graphics card with TV out connected to a VCR do? Or do you mean something more software-based that might need a really big hard disk? the latter. direct recording to AVI or similar, basically... -- .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system msg14595/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: capturing X to video
also sprach sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.11.22.0851 +0100]: here's an idea, i don't think it'd be too unfeasable if it hasn't already been done somewhere. take xvncviewer, and make a port/output-plugin that instead of or in addition to opening an x-window with an image of the desktop writes the image it would be displaying to a series of files? can you estimate the framerate that this would give? i know jack about vnc... -- .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system msg14596/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: capturing X to video
I don't know for sure but it should be pretty good. VNC is designed for interactive use and it will vary depending on your application. VNC compresses image data before transmitting it so Photoshop would not be a good choice, nor would fancy window decorations and spiffy root images. Think simple, flat, and not antialiased. The good news is VNC already has record and playback features. See: http://www.tightvnc.com/compare.html#bottom -Original Message- From: martin f krafft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 4:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: capturing X to video also sprach sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.11.22.0851 +0100]: here's an idea, i don't think it'd be too unfeasable if it hasn't already been done somewhere. take xvncviewer, and make a port/output-plugin that instead of or in addition to opening an x-window with an image of the desktop writes the image it would be displaying to a series of files? can you estimate the framerate that this would give? i know jack about vnc... -- .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: capturing X to video
also sprach Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.11.21.0022 +0100]: Though that's not quite realtime capture. I'd think a hardware device is what you'd need for what you're describing, Martin. Windoze can do it. *NIX should... -- .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system msg14396/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: capturing X to video
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:22:47 -0800, Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Wed, Nov 20, 2002, J?rg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello Martin is it possible to capture all that's going on on my X server to video somehow? I imagine it can't be hard thanks to X's modular architecture. Does anyone have a pointer or so? no better ideas so far, so why not throw in this one... There are various programs that can capture the X desktop (screenshot). If you could use such a program in a script that makes a screenshot every second (or longer or shorter), you could assemble these images to a mpeg (or some other movie format, you might have followed the thread about this topic the last few days). Note: I have not taken screenshots before, so sory I can't tell you what screenshooter to use. I'd suggest 'import' from imagemagick: while import -window root screenshot.$( date +'%Y-%m-%d.%H%M%S).png; do sleep 1; done Though that's not quite realtime capture. I'd think a hardware device is what you'd need for what you're describing, Martin. Peace. Could you describe more precisely what you mean by video? Would a graphics card with TV out connected to a VCR do? Or do you mean something more software-based that might need a really big hard disk? Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: capturing X to video
here's an idea, i don't think it'd be too unfeasable if it hasn't already been done somewhere. take xvncviewer, and make a port/output-plugin that instead of or in addition to opening an x-window with an image of the desktop writes the image it would be displaying to a series of files? --sean On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:54:01AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.11.21.0022 +0100]: Though that's not quite realtime capture. I'd think a hardware device is what you'd need for what you're describing, Martin. Windoze can do it. *NIX should... -- .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system msg14574/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: capturing X to video
Hello Martin is it possible to capture all that's going on on my X server to video somehow? I imagine it can't be hard thanks to X's modular architecture. Does anyone have a pointer or so? no better ideas so far, so why not throw in this one... There are various programs that can capture the X desktop (screenshot). If you could use such a program in a script that makes a screenshot every second (or longer or shorter), you could assemble these images to a mpeg (or some other movie format, you might have followed the thread about this topic the last few days). Note: I have not taken screenshots before, so sory I can't tell you what screenshooter to use. hth joerg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: capturing X to video
on Wed, Nov 20, 2002, J?rg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello Martin is it possible to capture all that's going on on my X server to video somehow? I imagine it can't be hard thanks to X's modular architecture. Does anyone have a pointer or so? no better ideas so far, so why not throw in this one... There are various programs that can capture the X desktop (screenshot). If you could use such a program in a script that makes a screenshot every second (or longer or shorter), you could assemble these images to a mpeg (or some other movie format, you might have followed the thread about this topic the last few days). Note: I have not taken screenshots before, so sory I can't tell you what screenshooter to use. I'd suggest 'import' from imagemagick: while import -window root screenshot.$( date +'%Y-%m-%d.%H%M%S).png; do sleep 1; done Though that's not quite realtime capture. I'd think a hardware device is what you'd need for what you're describing, Martin. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss/ msg14307/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
capturing X to video
is it possible to capture all that's going on on my X server to video somehow? I imagine it can't be hard thanks to X's modular architecture. Does anyone have a pointer or so? -- .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system msg13716/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
X Windows Video
Warningnew user...terminology may not be completely correct. ;-) I've installed distribution 2.1 that comes with the O'Reily book and have been using it via the bash shell and learning various commands. Now I would like to install X Windows, but I can't quite figure out my video chipset. I have an ATI Rage 128 Pro 16MB. I went to the ATI site to determine if it uses one of the Mach chipset, but it appears that the Rage Pro is its own chipset. If I'm correct on this, will any of the other xfree installs work for me? I have subscribed to the user list but did not receive any additional message in response to my confirmation reply. On other lists, I'm used to having a welcome message come back giving me additional instructions and commands. Please CC: me in case I'm not subscribed correctly. Thanks, Mike __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: X Windows Video
you need Xfree86 3.3.6 to get rage128 to work in debian. you can get it by adding: deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main to your /etc/apt/sources.list then run apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade to upgrade your X windows installation, then run XF86Setup to configure it. good luck! nate On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Michael Zielinski wrote: mzieli Warningnew user...terminology may not be completely correct. ;-) mzieli mzieli I've installed distribution 2.1 that comes with the O'Reily book and mzieli have been using it via the bash shell and learning various commands. mzieli Now I would like to install X Windows, but I can't quite figure out my mzieli video chipset. mzieli mzieli I have an ATI Rage 128 Pro 16MB. I went to the ATI site to determine mzieli if it uses one of the Mach chipset, but it appears that the Rage Pro is mzieli its own chipset. If I'm correct on this, will any of the other xfree mzieli installs work for me? mzieli mzieli I have subscribed to the user list but did not receive any additional mzieli message in response to my confirmation reply. On other lists, I'm used mzieli to having a welcome message come back giving me additional instructions mzieli and commands. Please CC: me in case I'm not subscribed correctly. mzieli mzieli Thanks, mzieli Mike mzieli __ mzieli Do You Yahoo!? mzieli Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. mzieli http://im.yahoo.com mzieli mzieli mzieli -- mzieli Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null mzieli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 9:44am up 152 days, 21:48, 1 user, load average: 2.03, 1.83, 1.69
(no problems) Re: X, new video card, and servers.
When you say that it's a 3.3.3.1 server, I assume this means it won't work with 3.3.2, and I've heard that compiling xfree is a pain (though haven't tried it). Is there an experimental version somewhere (I've looked in /debian/project/experimental -- is there another repository of experimental packages?) It's working without a hint of trouble on my system. I'm currently running the most current X packages out of slink (3.3.2.3), plus the pre-compiled 3DLabs server (glibc2, 3.3.3.1) from the XFree86 site. Now whether it's by chance or design that the two versions co-exist peacefully, I really can't say... This is excellent news! I heard on debian-devel a week or so ago that someone had some experimental 3.3.3.1 packages available, though I don't have the address handy. A quick search through the mailing-list archives ought to turn it up, tho. I'll have a look. Thanks for the info, I'll report back when I pop the card in. -Dano
X, new video card, and servers.
I recently bought a new 2D/3D video card based on the 3DLabs chipset, and the www.xfree86.org serverlist tells me to use the XF86_3DLabs server. This isn't included in the debian distrobution. I'm not sure if that server is only for 3.3.3 and I'm not quite sure how to find out. My question is a) is it for 3.3.3 only and if so, are there any 3.3.3 debs? If not, are there docs on compiling my own X server and inserting it into debian's list? I would want to remove my old xserver-mach64, but AFAIK dpkg would complain about dependencies. Just a few frantic questions before the card makes it to my door. Thanks a lot! -Dano
Re: X, new video card, and servers.
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: Thanks very much. I was actually kind of hoping for an RTFM answer too so that I could find this stuff out in the future without posting questions to the list that I could probably find out by reading some manual. the XFree howto doesn't have specific info on 3.3.2 vs 3.3.3, and I find the xfree86.org site difficult to navigate. the /etc/X11/Xserver tip is exactly what I needed, thanks a million! I've banged my head on aliening RPMs before, do Xservers typically alien well? When you say that it's a 3.3.3.1 server, I assume this means it won't work with 3.3.2, and I've heard that compiling xfree is a pain (though haven't tried it). Is there an experimental version somewhere (I've looked in /debian/project/experimental -- is there another repository of experimental packages?) Thanks again for your help. -Dano It is indeed a 3.3.3.1 server. Essentially, you can just download the pre-compiled binary from your favorite XFree86 mirror-site, and extract it under /usr/local somewhere. Then edit the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver to specify the new server. Of course, once 3.3.3.1 has been packaged (probably won't be much longer, now that slink is [again] almost out the door), you won't need to worry about all of the above. If you'd prefer, I can send you a .deb package for that server which was converted from the tarball via alien (it's not particularly large). You'd still need to edit /etc/X11/Xserver manually. I recently bought a new 2D/3D video card based on the 3DLabs chipset, and the www.xfree86.org serverlist tells me to use the XF86_3DLabs server. This isn't included in the debian distrobution. I'm not sure if that server is only for 3.3.3 and I'm not quite sure how to find out. My question is a) is it for 3.3.3 only and if so, are there any 3.3.3 debs? If not, are there docs on compiling my own X server and inserting it into debian's list? I would want to remove my old xserver-mach64, but AFAIK dpkg would complain about dependencies. Just a few frantic questions before the card makes it to my door. Thanks a lot! -Dano
Re: X, new video card, and servers.
On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 12:46:16PM -0500, Daniel J. Brosemer wrote: I recently bought a new 2D/3D video card based on the 3DLabs chipset, and the www.xfree86.org serverlist tells me to use the XF86_3DLabs server. This isn't included in the debian distrobution. I'm not sure if that server is only for 3.3.3 and I'm not quite sure how to find out. Yes, I believe that card is supported by the 3.3.3 servers. My question is a) is it for 3.3.3 only and if so, are there any 3.3.3 debs? If not, are there docs on compiling my own X server and inserting it into debian's list? I would want to remove my old xserver-mach64, but AFAIK dpkg would complain about dependencies. See http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html. Also, I doubt anything depends explicitly on xserver-mach64; once another X server is installed, it should be perfectly safe to remove the Mach64 server. -- G. Branden Robinson |There's nothing an agnostic can't do Debian GNU/Linux |if he doesn't know whether he believes [EMAIL PROTECTED] |in it or not. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |-- Graham Chapman pgpl8mZ3TVBch.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: X, new video card, and servers.
On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 03:12:08PM -0500, Daniel J. Brosemer wrote: On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: Thanks very much. I was actually kind of hoping for an RTFM answer too so that I could find this stuff out in the future without posting questions to the list that I could probably find out by reading some manual. the XFree howto doesn't have specific info on 3.3.2 vs 3.3.3, and I find the xfree86.org site difficult to navigate. the /etc/X11/Xserver tip is exactly what I needed, thanks a million! No problem. I was never able to find the XFree86 3.3.2 vs 3.3.3 stuff spelled out clearly either. In fact, most of the info I got on came from this very list. g I've banged my head on aliening RPMs before, do Xservers typically alien well? In this case they will. The tarballs from the XFree86 ftp-site each contain only a single file - the precompiled binary itself. Running alien on it will only extract it from the original archive and repack it into a debfile. I'd be a little more reluctant to convert it had it originally been a rpm archive, as I've had much less luck with those... generally because of the differing file-structure layout between Debian and Red Hat. Still, if there's only one file in the archive... When you say that it's a 3.3.3.1 server, I assume this means it won't work with 3.3.2, and I've heard that compiling xfree is a pain (though haven't tried it). Is there an experimental version somewhere (I've looked in /debian/project/experimental -- is there another repository of experimental packages?) It's working without a hint of trouble on my system. I'm currently running the most current X packages out of slink (3.3.2.3), plus the pre-compiled 3DLabs server (glibc2, 3.3.3.1) from the XFree86 site. Now whether it's by chance or design that the two versions co-exist peacefully, I really can't say... I heard on debian-devel a week or so ago that someone had some experimental 3.3.3.1 packages available, though I don't have the address handy. A quick search through the mailing-list archives ought to turn it up, tho.
X - Missing video card
I'm trying to install X. I've got something working but I think it could be better. The problem is that I have the video card STB 4 MB Velocity 128 AGP but can't find this among the more than 100 cards to choose from. So what do I do? There is an option for STB Velocity 64 ... which I've tried with no success. Currently I use some generic option and run the X server VGA16. /Torbjörn -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: X And Video
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: I am having an interesting problem now. I finally got my new machine to boot up and I reset my X configuration for my new video card. X works great but when I exit back to a stand tty the video is trashed (misc. characters, garbage, and general bad mood) reset does not work and all virtual tty are trashed. The video board is a STB Systems w/ an advanced logic chipset alg2301 1024 ram. STB's website was rather useless mostly windows crap the only thing I saw that might be of interest was the need to have a memory exclusion, but I don't know how to do that under linux. I have a 486 with an Avance card that uses this chip, and it had the same problem. The garbage that you see is actually a translation, something like abcdefgh - bcdefg0h, so you can actually read it. The workaround I used was to leave at least one VC logged in and type setfont default8x16 whenever I needed a VC, and the same when quitting X. I never found any documentation for memory exclusion, but perhaps it's in the X sources. I now use the machine as a laboratory winlose playground. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X And Video
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am having an interesting problem now. I finally got my new machine to boot up and I reset my X configuration for my new video card. X works great but when I exit back to a stand tty the video is trashed (misc. characters, garbage, and general bad mood) reset does not work and all virtual tty are trashed. The video board is a STB Systems w/ an advanced logic chipset alg2301 1024 ram. STB's website was rather useless mostly windows crap the only thing I saw that might be of interest was the need to have a memory exclusion, but I don't know how to do that under linux. Thanks again, Syd -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNCq2Aywk+M1fFNmTEQIEmQCeKngTcSD79D2fhoShmzdrZD4xPekAn3L2 3t1tfKqqxbjILxsH480xEUqr =0DWU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Syd http://www.onsyd.com/~alsobrsp How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it. Douglas Adams PGP Public Key Availible -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
