Re: [Newbie]Introduction
And maybe it should be mentioned that FreeBSD really ain't for beginners, not to speak of installing it on a laptop. Try SuSE Linux, some ppl say it's to overloaded with unnecessary stuff and quite hard to tweak on OS level, but for beginners it's just nice as it does a lot of configuration on its own... and most of the time even properly. Maybe Mandrake was cool for you, too, and if you're not afraid of reading manuals and like cryptic installation, try debian - once it works it's damn fine. Iain Thomas schrieb: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Jeffrey Connell wrote: > > I am not an XFree86 user, but am wondering. I have a spare Pentium > > laptop with a lost OS (Win 2K). Rather than re-install Windows, I am > > thinking to use this as an opportunity to learn something about open > > source. So, I am looking to install an open source operating system to > > find out how to make that work in some useful way. Is XFree86 an > > appropriate option, are there other alternatives? Thanks. > > XFree86 isn't an operating system. XFree86 /runs/ on many operating > systems. > XFree86 is just the graphical windowing system. > To get started, pick up a copy of Linux or FreeBSD. > XFree86 will run on any of them. > I believe there's just the one FreeBSD distribution; however, there are > several different Linux distributions; such as RedHat, Mandrake, SuSe, > Debian, to name but four. (IIRC, there are doznes of distros, but these 4 > just happen to come to mind..) > > Whichever you pick, you are likely to get an installed and configured > version of XFree86 installed for you... > > -- > Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My website: http://www.iain.thomas.dial.pipex.com/ > XMMS now playing: Blur - Black Book > > ___ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCM d-(--)@ s-:+ a-- C++ UL>+++ 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-- Nothing fights like the opposition ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Choosing between the two vendors
NVidia: expensive, doesn't perform as well on DVD playback as ATI, *much* less trouble with XFree ATI: cool cards, excellent DVD playback, good 2D image quality, but even folks at ATI themselves ain't capable of coding proper drivers, lots of probs with XF. Kind of poker game: might work, might not. Farid Hamjavar schrieb: > Hello, > > I posted this to two related linux usenet > groups the other day. If any of you has any > opinion about ATI Vs nVidia (in context of Linux/xfree86) > please let me know. > > Thanks, > Farid > UNM > > > Date: 6 Dec 2001 14:34:27 -0700 > From: Farid Hamjavar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x, comp.os.linux.hardware > Subject: Choosing between the two vendors > > Greetings, > > Any technical opinion for the case below is greatly appreciated: > > We're about to launch our next generation of visualization lab and we > have been using Maya for years. The deployment date is about early > 2002. The OS will definitely be RH 7.2 and we plan to use Maya4. As > the goal of the lab is not much performance but rather OpenGL > development and in-depth educational topics, after about two months of > research I came down to two options in terms of graphics card for our > new machines: basically ATI Fire GL based product (GL2) and nVidia > Quadro based product (Quadro Pro2) > > What is important to us is first and foremost robustness of product > both hardware wise and card's interaction with software (both the OS > and Maya). Also it would be nice to know that vendor regularly update > drivers. > > QUESTION: > NOT considering price a deciding factor what do you think in > this case is a prudent choice? > ATI (Fire GL) product or nVidia (Quadro) product? > > Thanks, > Farid > UNM > > ___ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCM d-(--)@ s-:+ a-- C++ UL>+++ 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-- Nothing fights like the opposition ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
[Newbie]XDM chooser list failure
hello everyone, I just join the mailing list so special season greetings to all. I am having a problem with my xdm configuration. Specifically, I have a X terminal configured (well so I think) to obtain a CHOOSER list from a remote XDMCP server on same local network. The line in the /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess file looks like this xterminal-host CHOOSER xdmcp-server x-apps-server A line in the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file list the xterminal as possible X server requesting XDMCP service. The line looks like this xterminal-host:0 foreign So far I am able to X -query xdmcp-server and connect directly to the xdmcp-server. However, when I request an indirect connection via X -indirect xdmcp-server only the xdmcp-server appears on the CHOOSER list albiet x-apps-server is listed as can be seen above. These problems 1. only xdmcp-server appears on the CHOOSER list albiet x-apps-server is also listed 2. when I select xdmcp-server from the list and click on accept I am not presented with a login prompt. Instead The CHOOSER window reappears. 3. when I look in the error log file /var/log/xdm-errors on the xdmcp-server there are 2 errors a. server open failed for xterminal-host, giving up b. Display xterminal-host connot be opened I will greatly appreciate any help. thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Newbie]configuration problem with X
I have Linux 7.0 on a Pentium II 400 processor, using the X windows packages. After using it for several months without any problem, I changed some of my display settings, as root, from the GNOME Control Center, during which session I also looked at various Window Managers. Now, when I reboot the machine, all I get is the following, ad nauseum, in a perpetual loop, so that the boot sequence never finishes: According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (2254), but seems to have been murdered mysteriously. According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (2273), but seems to have been murdered mysteriously. According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (2292), but seems to have been murdered mysteriously. According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (2311), but seems to have been murdered mysteriously. The screen then flickers, goes black, pause, then the above messages come back on, with an additional line appended to the above list of "murdered" processes. I'm able to telnet into the machine from my regular WindowsXP PC, but after looking at documentation and man pages and what-not for over a day now, I'm completely stumped and have no idea what's going on, and am frankly utterly confused by the documentation. Can someone please guide me through a successful resolution to this problem? Henry Sauvageotv: 718-788-1511e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Newbie]configuration problem with X
Never ever saw anything like this. Even tho linux folks are geeks, who'd make up an error msg like that? Henry Sauvageot schrieb: I have Linux 7.0 on a Pentium II 400 processor, using the X windows packages. After using it for several months without any problem, I changed some of my display settings, as root, from the GNOME Control Center, during which session I also looked at various Window Managers. Now, when I reboot the machine, all I get is the following, ad nauseum, in a perpetual loop, so that the boot sequence never finishes: According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (2254), but seems to have been murdered mysteriously.According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (2273), but seems to have been murdered mysteriously.According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (2292), but seems to have been murdered mysteriously.According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (2311), but seems to have been murdered mysteriously. The screen then flickers, goes black, pause, then the above messages come back on, with an additional line appended to the above list of "murdered" processes. I'm able to telnet into the machine >from my regular WindowsXP PC, but after looking at documentation and man pages and what-not for over a day now, I'm completely stumped and have no idea what's going on, and am frankly utterly confused by the documentation. Can someone please guide me through a successful resolution to this problem? Henry Sauvageot v: 718-788-1511 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCM d-(--)@ s-:+ a-- C++ UL>+++ 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-- Nothing fights like the opposition ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Graphical Slowdown When Running Slightly 3D Intensive Games
Hey I do not have any problems with tuxracer and my nvidia ... i also tried some opengl programming everything works fine on my workstation I have a nvidia GF2 64 mb Markus On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:29:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. I'd like to know why games like Tuxkart, Tuxracer, and Chromium majorly > slow down in Linux. It seems to be happening on more than one of my machines > running Red Hat Linux 7.2, one of them with a graphics accelerator (nVIDIA > TNT 2 w/ 32MB video memory) and the other one without. Any help is greatly > appreciated. > > The Gyzmo > ___ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Graphical Slowdown When Running Slightly 3D Intensive Games
You may already be aware of this, but it sounds like you have software rendering enabled for your pc, however dri is not enabled correctly. Run glxinfo, and see if at the top it says direct rendering enabled. This sounds simple, but if it's not enabled games like the ones you mentioned (which use opengl) will run really slow. I have the same problem, and am trying to get dri enabled on my machine, however I'm using a voodoo card, and so the setup will be different than yours with the nvida. Good luck, hope this wasn't a repeat of what you already know Jeremy > > >>Hi. I'd like to know why games like Tuxkart, Tuxracer, and Chromium majorly >>slow down in Linux. It seems to be happening on more than one of my machines >>running Red Hat Linux 7.2, one of them with a graphics accelerator (nVIDIA >>TNT 2 w/ 32MB video memory) and the other one without. Any help is greatly >>appreciated. >> ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Introduction
Dexter Filmore wrote: | And maybe it should be mentioned that FreeBSD really ain't for beginners, not | to speak of installing it on a laptop. What nonsense. I watched somebody at a user group install FreeBSD on the first computer he had ever bought the day after he bought it just a few days ago. He installed OpenBSD on day 1 and then decided to try FreeBSD on day 2. Neither installation gave him any problem at all. I've watched plenty of beginners install various BSD's, including FreeBSD, on laptops. This doesn't mean that you won't ever have a problem if you happen to have unsupported hardware, but that's not restricted to the BSD offerings. ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Graphical Slowdown When Running Slightly 3D Intensive Games
Thanks for the help, but it didn't seem to work - when I run glxinfo i get: display: :0.0 screen:0 direct rendering: Yes ... So far nothing's changed. In a message dated 12/9/2001 11:02:41 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << You may already be aware of this, but it sounds like you have software rendering enabled for your pc, however dri is not enabled correctly. Run glxinfo, and see if at the top it says direct rendering enabled. This sounds simple, but if it's not enabled games like the ones you mentioned (which use opengl) will run really slow. I have the same problem, and am trying to get dri enabled on my machine, however I'm using a voodoo card, and so the setup will be different than yours with the nvida. Good luck, hope this wasn't a repeat of what you already know Jeremy >> ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
[Newbie]Acer Travelmate 612TX
Hi, I got some mails about my acer travelmate 612tx in the last few days. It's a quite new laptop technical information: mhz: 900/700(with speedstep) ram: 128 (i upgraded to 256) graphicchip: i815m (i had to patch the driver but now everything seems to work alright) sound: i810 (it works with the alsa driver, the kernel driver is quite crappy for now 2.4.16 the kernel driver also slows down the movie player(mplayer)!) USB: works fine! (i tested it with my logitech quickcam + aiptek pc tablet (the docs about how to install that pctablet aren't really good you mustn't load the usbmouse module otherwise it acts but doesn't work alright) battery: between 2-3 hours depends on what you are doing, movies < 1h i think IrDA: supported but i haven't tested it with linux (4 mbit) nic: eepro100 smartcardreader: not supported X works fine without any problem i use patched driver it corrects that overlay problem (shell.dnload.com:5/overlay.jpg) (driver shell.dnload.com:5/i810_drv.o .. of course no warranty i lost the sources after a crash just look at the mailing list i mailt the changings in the i810_driver.c) the i815m graphicchip supports only 24bit The laptop is 3 cm thin (2cm main computer 1cm display) I like the natural design of the keyboard Markus ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]configuration problem with X
>I have Linux 7.0 on a Pentium II 400 processor, using the X windows >packages. After using it for several months without any problem, I >changed some of my display settings, as root, from the GNOME Control >Center, during which session I also looked at various Window >Managers. Now, when I reboot the machine, all I get is the following, >ad nauseum, in a perpetual loop, so that the boot sequence never >finishes: hmmm. first off; boot to single-user mode (type 'linux -s' at the LILO prompt at boot time); and edit /etc/inittab. change your default runlevel to 3, instead of 5, so it won't try to start GDM. then take a look at your /etc/hosts file. is there an entry in there for your current hostname? there needs to be; or else a DNS record for it; or GDM will crap out. (another reason I distrust GDM). Carl Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700 ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
