Re: missing config files & fonts
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Dave Eidson wrote: > directory. Also, in both cases X crashes with the imfamous > "missing default font - 'fixed' message. Installing and re-installing > xfont-base, 100dpi, 75dpi, and scalable doesn't help. Likewise, > reinstalling xfs and/or xfs-xtt and verifying their configurations, > ports, and entires in XF86Config-4 doesn't seem to help. Is it Regarding the missing fixed font, it appears that update-fonts-alias isn't working correctly. When run, it creates a file named fonts.alias.update-new in the specified font dir that contains only the "DO NOT EDIT" messages... no alias info is created. How can I get around this?
X 4.2.0 on Woody/mips: can't find modules
I have a Debian/Woody install on an SGI Indy with the Newport XL-24 gfx card. I had a working XFree86 until I upgraded to 4.2.0. Now it can not find the necessary modules. Attached below is the error log. The packages were updated using dselect from http://people.debian.org/~branden/sid/mips/. The ModulePath directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" given does not exist ... h In a possibly related problem: xfs no longer starts either... "error while loading shared libraries: libXfont.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory already running." I have checked Google without success. There are plenty of references to similar problems - but no solution that worked for me. Kernel: Linux indy 2.4.17-r4k-ip22 Thanks Mike . martin @ cogeco . ca XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 11 March 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.17 mips [ELF] Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Mon Aug 5 02:53:40 2002 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout" (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "SGI 17inch GDM-17E11" (**) | |-->Device "SGI Indy XL-24" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc104" (**) XKB: model: "pc104" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us" (**) XKB: layout: "us" (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Mouse" (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic". Entry deleted from font path. (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"). (**) FontPath set to "unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (--) using VT number 7 (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.5 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.3 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.3 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module bitmap (II) UnloadModule: "bitmap" (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module pcidata (II) UnloadModule: "pcidata" (EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not exist, 0) Fatal server error: Unable to load required base modules, Exiting... When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xdmcp
Guys, pardon me if I am not asking the right question in the right mailing list. I am running 3.0 on my ULTRA 5 sparc. I just upgraded :) But I want to use X :1 -query ipaddress -once & etc to connect to other better machines. When I was using RH7.2/7.3 I added the above line to the /etc/inittab file and I got another login screen for the remote screen apart from the local login screen. My question is what I need to do to stop getting the local login screen and only get the remote login screen. That means, the only line that needs to execute is X :1 -query ipadd -once &. Where should I add this line, how can I stop getting the login screen from the local machine. How to permit X to connect to the remote machine? Any suggestions? Please cc me. thanks, Aravind
missing config files & fonts
I'm presently trying to install X on 2 Debian Woody boxes. Neither of these machines have had any version of X on them previously. Whether I use the x-system meta packages, or install the various packages individually, there is never an Xsession or rgb.txt file created in the /etc/X11 directory. The install does put a broken sym link to rgb.txt in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 directory. Also, in both cases X crashes with the imfamous "missing default font - 'fixed' message. Installing and re-installing xfont-base, 100dpi, 75dpi, and scalable doesn't help. Likewise, reinstalling xfs and/or xfs-xtt and verifying their configurations, ports, and entires in XF86Config-4 doesn't seem to help. Is it necessary to start with an older X version and upgrade to current version? Or should I be able to install the stable release (4.1) directly but there is something else fubar on these machines causing the problems? Kernel version on both boxes is 2.4.4, both with 100% stable/woody installed and error free to this point.
RE: xfree86 4.2.0-0pre1v2 (source,i386) available at the X Strike Force
Hi, the changelog says: * TODO: mips wants to build the server modules as shared objects instead of static ones; why? because the ELF loader doesn't work on mips yet(and shared object modules are better than no modules at all since it reduces linking time a lot when doing driver work). I have started to work on the ELF loader but there's quiet some work to do left. Feel free to disable modules at all on mips for the moment. Regards, -- Guido P.S.: im not subscribed to debian-x so pleace cc: me on replies
Re: Notebook/TFT screen resolutions
On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 14:19, Patrick Sodre wrote: > It would be good to also add 1152x768 for the Apple Titanium 1st and 2nd > generation. http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/XFree86-4.2/patches/extramodes-TiBook.diff > Patrick Sodre > On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 08:15, Erich Schubert wrote: > > Maybe add that resolution (1400x1050) to the list of default resolutions As can be seen in the patch above, a 1400x1050 mode is already there. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
xfree86 4.2.0-0pre1v2 (source,i386) available at the X Strike Force
Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 00:07:45 -0500 Source: xfree86 Binary: xserver-common xlibs-dev xfs xfree86-common x-window-system xlibmesa-dev xspecs xlibmesa3 xfonts-cyrillic xlibmesa3-dbg xserver-xfree86 xlibs-dbg libxaw6 libxaw7 xterm xvfb xfonts-scalable xfonts-75dpi xlib6g proxymngr libxaw6-dev xlibs-pic libdps1-dbg xlib6g-dev xfonts-base xutils libxaw7-dev xnest xlibs libxaw6-dbg xmh lbxproxy libxaw7-dbg xfonts-base-transcoded xbase-clients xprt xlibosmesa3 x-window-system-core xlibosmesa-dev twm xfwp xfonts-100dpi-transcoded xlibosmesa3-dbg xfonts-100dpi xdm libdps-dev xfonts-75dpi-transcoded libdps1 Architecture: source all i386 Version: 4.2.0-0pre1v2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: lbxproxy - Low Bandwidth X (LBX) proxy server libdps-dev - Display PostScript (DPS) client library development files libdps1- Display PostScript (DPS) client library libdps1-dbg - Display PostScript (DPS) client library (unstripped) libxaw6- X Athena widget set library (version 6) libxaw6-dbg - X Athena widget set library (version 6) (unstripped) libxaw6-dev - X Athena widget set library development files (version 6) libxaw7- X Athena widget set library libxaw7-dbg - X Athena widget set library (unstripped) libxaw7-dev - X Athena widget set library development files proxymngr - X proxy services manager twm- Tab window manager x-window-system - X Window System x-window-system-core - X Window System core components xbase-clients - miscellaneous X clients xdm- X display manager xfonts-100dpi - 100 dpi fonts for X xfonts-100dpi-transcoded - 100 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10646-1) xfonts-75dpi - 75 dpi fonts for X xfonts-75dpi-transcoded - 75 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10646-1) xfonts-base - standard fonts for X xfonts-base-transcoded - standard fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10646-1) xfonts-cyrillic - Cyrillic fonts for X xfonts-scalable - scalable fonts for X xfree86-common - X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure xfs- X font server xfwp - X firewall proxy server xlib6g - pseudopackage providing X libraries xlib6g-dev - pseudopackage providing X library development files xlibmesa-dev - XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library development files xlibmesa3 - XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library xlibmesa3-dbg - XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library (unstripped) xlibosmesa-dev - Mesa/XFree86 off-screen rendering library development files xlibosmesa3 - Mesa/XFree86 off-screen rendering library xlibosmesa3-dbg - Mesa/XFree86 off-screen rendering library (unstripped) xlibs - X Window System client libraries xlibs-dbg - X Window System client libraries (unstripped) xlibs-dev - X Window System client library development files xlibs-pic - X Window System client extension library PIC archives xmh- X interface to the MH mail system xnest - nested X server xprt - X print server xserver-common - files and utilities common to all X servers xserver-xfree86 - the XFree86 X server xspecs - X protocol, extension, and library technical specifications xterm - X terminal emulator xutils - X Window System utility programs xvfb - virtual framebuffer X server Closes: 154855 Changes: xfree86 (4.2.0-0pre1v2) unstable; urgency=low . *** THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL RELEASE. FEEDBACK SHOULD GO TO *** . DO NOT FILE BUGS AGAINST THIS RELEASE WITH *** THE DEBIAN BUG TRACKING SYSTEM. ANY SUCH REPORTS WILL BE CLOSED. . * TODO: mips wants to build the server modules as shared objects instead of static ones; why? . * Re-generated .orig.tar.gz without the COPYRIGHT.BH and COPYRIGHT.IBM files under xc/fonts/scaled; the fonts under these licenses are not in our source tarball because they are not DFSG-free, therefore it does not make sense to ship copyright license files that do not apply to anything. Also removed the non-free fonts from xc/programs/Xserver/XpConfig/C/print/models. Sorry for causing the 50 meg hit on those of you interested in the orig tarball. :( . * patch #000_stolen_from_HEAD: - Add PCI ID for ATI Radeon Mobility M7 'LX' (#5233, Mike Harris). - Move int10 softbooting furthur up in the glint driver to post much earlier (Alan Hourihane). - Fix RGB/BGR inversion problem and screen blanking in the glint driver (Alan Hourihane). . * patch #000_stolen_from_HEAD_nv_driver: - updates to nv driver from XFree86 CVS courtesy of James Hirschorn . * patch #001: - define XFree86CustomVersion as "Debian" when building with DebianMaintainer symbol defined - clean up duplicate definitions for HPArchitecture - updated patches for SuperH 4 (sh4) architecture per ISHIKAWA Mutsumi * patch #002: re-apply a couple of xdm configuration p
Re: Weird X problem with 4.2 on ATI Radeon
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 05:30:53PM +0200, Héctor García Álvarez wrote: > But (allways a but), suddently X started to break in a unreproductible > way. > Sometimes (nothing in common that I'm aware of) it just messes up the > screen (screen looks like old TVs out of sync with diagonal color lines > across the window going up and down), and what it is even worst takes > 100% of CPU (tested by logging from outside before crash) freezen the > computer. > My question are: > ¿Is this a known bug? ¿Solved somewhere? > ¿How do I help to debug this? (Any tip welcome, never player around with > X code). Is there no way that you can forcibly reproduce this, or is it always that intermittent? You could try some of the other X branches. I would recommend the DRI branch as packaged by Michel Dänzer: http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/debian/dri-trunk/ - keep in mind that this is experimental; it will give you the fastest 3D though. -- charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/ http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/
Weird X problem with 4.2 on ATI Radeon
Hi all I'm finally using ATI Radeon module with my card thanks to Branden's packages. But (allways a but), suddently X started to break in a unreproductible way. Sometimes (nothing in common that I'm aware of) it just messes up the screen (screen looks like old TVs out of sync with diagonal color lines across the window going up and down), and what it is even worst takes 100% of CPU (tested by logging from outside before crash) freezen the computer. My question are: ¿Is this a known bug? ¿Solved somewhere? ¿How do I help to debug this? (Any tip welcome, never player around with X code). Besides this anoyance, X 4.2 works great, thanks a lot Branden and all the people that helped him. Regards, -- Héctor García Álvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje esta firmada digitalmente
Re: xserver-xfree86 : mouse not working
On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 07:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I had installed debian testing. I was surprised to see the abnormal > behaviour of the mouse. The mouse was active for the first time gdm was > run. But it was out of control. In order to make the things working, I > tried reconfiguring xserver-xfree86 but doing so proved to be just > oppposite of what I expected, now the mouse pointer was not visible. The latter sounds rather like a graphics driver problem. Maybe Option "SWCursor" helps. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
Re: 404 http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:41:36PM +0300, Ian Dichkovsky wrote: > Hi ! > There is link in the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ > > But... > 404 The requested URL /~cpbotha/xf410_potato/ was not found on this server > http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/ Whoops, this must be due to the klecker move. These are still available on http://klecker.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/ - should I move these to people? I wasn't paying 100% attention during the move. -- charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/ http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/
404 http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/
Hi ! There is link in the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ But... 404 The requested URL /~cpbotha/xf410_potato/ was not found on this server http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/ Best regards, Ian Dichkovsky, mailto: ntokay at lviv net, ICQ 83146271
Re: 404 http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 11:07:36PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 01:45:55PM +0200, Charl P. Botha wrote: > > Whoops, this must be due to the klecker move. These are still available on > > http://klecker.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/ - should I move these to > > people? I wasn't paying 100% attention during the move. > > > > the klecker directories in /org/home/gluck (or whatever the exact location > was, I don't remember exactly. So you could just mv your files from there > to gluck:~cpbotha, and people.debian.org/~cpbotha will work again. Great, thank you very much! The stash was in /org/klecker.backup and is now available at people.d.o/~cpbotha again. -- charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/ http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/
Re: 404 http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 01:45:55PM +0200, Charl P. Botha wrote: > > But... > > 404 The requested URL /~cpbotha/xf410_potato/ was not found on this server > > http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/ > > Whoops, this must be due to the klecker move. These are still available on > http://klecker.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/ - should I move these to > people? I wasn't paying 100% attention during the move. > people.debian.org is now aliased to gluck.debian.org. gluck has a backup of the klecker directories in /org/home/gluck (or whatever the exact location was, I don't remember exactly. So you could just mv your files from there to gluck:~cpbotha, and people.debian.org/~cpbotha will work again. Drew -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
Re: Notebook/TFT screen resolutions
It would be good to also add 1152x768 for the Apple Titanium 1st and 2nd generation. Patrick Sodre On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 08:15, Erich Schubert wrote: > Maybe add that resolution (1400x1050) to the list of default resolutions > and add a note that TFTs are designed to run _one_ resolution. > That was the second time this issue came on debian-laptop within a week > i think. (the other one wanted to run 1024x768 on a 1600x1200 TFT) > But i'm not sure if they will read any such notice... > Maybe there is already one, i havn't checked ;) > > Greetings, > Erich > > - Forwarded message from Tiarnan O Corrain > - > > To: Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Blurry screen with X 4.2.0 > From: Tiarnan O Corrain > X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) > > Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You use the wrong resolution for your display. > > You should use the exact resolution that is in your notebooks docs. > > TFT Screen are designed for ONE resolution only. All other resolutions > > have to be SCALED to the hardware resolution, which probably causes that > > blur. > > You're right. After changing the resolution to 1400x1050, the blurring > problem disappeared. > > > > > Greetings, > > Erich > > > > -- > Tiarnán Ó Corráin > Consultant / System Administrator > CMG Wireless Data Solutions Ltd. > Tel.: +353 21 4933200 > Fax: +353 21 4933201 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > - End forwarded message - > Gruss, > Erich Schubert > -- > erich@(mucl.de|debian.org)--GPG Key ID: 4B3A135C > The best things in life are free: Friendship and Love. > Ein Freund ist ein Geschenk, das man sich selbst macht. >Humor sollte immmer dabeisein, auch bei Problemen. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Notebook/TFT screen resolutions
Maybe add that resolution (1400x1050) to the list of default resolutions and add a note that TFTs are designed to run _one_ resolution. That was the second time this issue came on debian-laptop within a week i think. (the other one wanted to run 1024x768 on a 1600x1200 TFT) But i'm not sure if they will read any such notice... Maybe there is already one, i havn't checked ;) Greetings, Erich - Forwarded message from Tiarnan O Corrain - To: Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Blurry screen with X 4.2.0 From: Tiarnan O Corrain X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You use the wrong resolution for your display. > You should use the exact resolution that is in your notebooks docs. > TFT Screen are designed for ONE resolution only. All other resolutions > have to be SCALED to the hardware resolution, which probably causes that > blur. You're right. After changing the resolution to 1400x1050, the blurring problem disappeared. > > Greetings, > Erich > -- Tiarnán Ó Corráin Consultant / System Administrator CMG Wireless Data Solutions Ltd. Tel.: +353 21 4933200 Fax: +353 21 4933201 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End forwarded message - Gruss, Erich Schubert -- erich@(mucl.de|debian.org)--GPG Key ID: 4B3A135C The best things in life are free: Friendship and Love. Ein Freund ist ein Geschenk, das man sich selbst macht. Humor sollte immmer dabeisein, auch bei Problemen.
