Re: [XFree86] X Server Crash
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed RH8 and for some reason I can't get 'startx' to work. Every time I try to I get the following error messages. (-- --) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log (EE) Unable to locate/open config file (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() Fatal server error: no screens found XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 after 0 requests (0 Known processed) with 0 events remaining By the way, I have a Intel 82815 Graphics Controller if that makes a difference and I configured it fine by using 'xf86config', but I still get this error. I've tried reinstalling three times and I get the same thing every time. If there's ANY way you can help me or at least tell me what's going on, I would definitely appreciate it. Try using redhat-config-xfree86. This should produce an XFree86 configuration file /etc/X11/XF86Config. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] S3 ProSavage8 support/question
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a BIOSTAR M7VIG PRO mainboard that, according to Biostars website, has the S3 ProSavage8 integrated video chipset (it shares up to 32 meg of system RAM). I am running Red Hat 8.0. snip My question: S3 ProSavage8 - supported by the XFree86 under Red Hat 8.0? If so - where and how can I get drivers and install them or configure them? If not - I guess I should just change my configuration back to VESA as the driver? I haven't heard of the ProSavage8. If you find the PCI id (do an /sbin/lspci -v and note the location of the video card entry, then do an /sbin/lspci -vn and look in the same location for the Class entry) you could compare it with the list at http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html in the Supported Chipsets section. If it is listed then you could download the latest Savage driver and move it into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ If it isn't listed there then you could try emailing the maintainer of that driver (note that he maintains it as a public service and is a pretty busy person, so maybe wait and see if there's other responses from this list first). You could also just try that latest driver and see if it works. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] (no subject)
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am attaching a log file for my RedHat 8.0.93 installation That's Red Hat's second _experimental_beta-test_ of the upcoming 8.1. Since that there's been another pre-release of 8.0.94. Should you be running that if you don't know how to read an XFree86 log? with ATI Radeon 7500 All-In-Wander card. Graphic system does not start; I am getting Fatal server error: no screens found. Is this enough info to identify the problem? The error log you supply seems to indicate that you haven't specified your monitor's horizontal and vertical refresh rates. Read the monitor's manual and then enter them by hand in the appropriate section of /etc/X11/XF86Config Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName SomeName ModelNameSomeModel HorizSyncXX.0 - YY.0 these values taken from manual VertRefresh ZZ.0 - WW.0or found by Google search Did you try running redhat-config-xfree86? Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] Cannot open x-window afterthe installation of redhat 8.0 connection graphic
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Assad wrote: Regarding: Cannot open x-window after the installation of redhat 8.0 connection graphic Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XFree86 Version: Linux 2.4.18-11 smp i686 OS: Red Hat Linux 8.0 Area: Server: XF86_S3 How can this be? XF86_S3 is one of the separate servers that existed before XFree86-4.x.x which is what shipped with Red Hat 8.0, so I don't see how that can be your server. Try reconfiguring with redhat-config-xfree86. Read the RELEASE-NOTES and all the relevant Red Hat supplied documentation. snip HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Resetting Screensaver and Dpms
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Hanspeter Roth wrote: Hello, can the screensaver and DPMS be reset in batch mode by standard X tool or is there a specific application to achieve this? I'm not sure what you mean by batch mode, but there is the utility xset. See man xset. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] ATI Radeon 7500 series on a Red Hat 8.0 workstation
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Clarence Wiggins, II wrote: I'm having a problem with Xfree86 starting on my workstation. I'm using Red Hat 8.0 distribution on a white box. I know some users have What is a white box? had no problems with an ATI Radeon 7500 graphics card working on their Red Hat system right out of the box but for some reason I'm have some problem with it. I hope I have supplied enough information for someone to help me out. Thanks for your help, Are you using an LCD screen? Have you tried using redhat-config-xfree86? What does your /etc/X11/XF86Config contain? Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] Black screen after startingX, but get a full featured (black) gnome
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Peter wrote: XFree86 Version: 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-6 200302225230530) OS: Debian Linux unstable Server: savage.o Video Card: S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05) running on a IBM Thinkpad T23 Description: XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-6 20030225230350 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) / X Window System snip (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) S3 unknown chipset (0x8c2e) rev 5, Mem @ 0xc010/19, 0xe800/26, 0xe400/26, 0xe000/25 (II) snip (II) LoadModule: savage (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.o (II) Module savage: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version = 1.1.26 snip There is a COMPLETELY EXPERIMENTAL driver available for pre-testing at Tim Robert's page specifically developed on an IBM T23. He's looking for people to test it and it's supposed to do great things for SuperSavage users. If you want to give it a shot (and he wants feedback about whether or not it works) then it's here: http://www.probo.com/timr/xf42sav-27t.tgz You can get in touch with him through his webpage: http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] ATI Radeon 7500 series
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, neal wrote: I am really wondering.. with X WINDOWS as good as they say it is.How come there isn't any drivers for ATI Radeon 7500? I installed it and now I can't get rid of it becasue it doesn't support that driver. So please have a driver for that someday? Stop wondering. Stop trolling. Start reading. This message posted to you from a machine with an out-of-the-box 3D accelerated Red Hat 8.0. Oisin Feeley. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
RE: [XFree86] ATI Radeon 7500 series
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Clarence Wiggins, II wrote: I'm having the same problem with my workstation I also have an ATI Radeon and the X server just will not start. I've even installed Xfree86 4.3 today and still no luck. I've tried it on 7.2,7.38.0 to no avail. snip unnecessarily long included posts How do you know it's the same problem?. It's just the same _symptom_ which could be due to one of many problems. I am _assuming_ that when you say 7.2,7.38.0 you refer to versions of the Red Hat distribution? If so then should stick with the included version of XFree86 that comes with Red Hat 8.0. It works for me out of the box with my Radeon 7500. If you want more help: examine your log files, see if you can understand the problem. Do a Google search. Then post on the list asking for help. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Please Help
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Bijoy Thomas wrote: Hello, I have a PIII system with RedHat Linux 7.1 (kernel 2.4) installed. Till now i had no problems whatsoever with Linux. I always login as root.My graphics display on Linux has been working fine and I've worked in almost all the desktop environments(GNOME,KDE,Enlightenment).Yesterday on entering KDE i found that the icons floppy,cdrom and Trash were displayed on the top lefthand corner of the screen. They had been there everytime but yesterday i decided to get rid of them. I right clicked on the Desktop and selected Configure Desktop and then changed the Desktop path to /root/empty (an empty directory). Everything went fine until the next time i entered KDE the icons were there again. Just for fun i changed the Desktop path to /root and found that everything under /root got snip This means that you must be logging in and running X as root. This is explicitly something that you are warned against doing. Every version of Red Hat that I can remember posts a message on the screen telling you that this is a bad thing to do. The answer to your question can be found by searching the archives of this mail group at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree86r=1b=200302w=2 Hope this helps, Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Problem booting into GUI
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Mell Anico wrote: I am using Red Hat linux v7.3 and I am currently having problem booting my Linux server in GUI (using KDM). I tried reboot a number of times and still did not come up with the GUI login screen. This problem Do you mean that your machine boots into the text console? Can you execute a startx and get KDE running from that? If yes AND the output of /sbin/runlevel is N 3 then you need to edit /etc/inittab and change the line: id:3:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault: started when the print servers hosted in this linux box stop responding and I decided to reboot. Then I cannot boot in GUI mode, although the server is still functioning as I can telnet into it. Can you please help us in restoring the GUI boot in our Linux server? What we can do to resolve?? Check your log files. cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log, tail -200 /var/log/messages | less Really you don't give enough information for anyone to make intelligent suggestions. Also, I'd suggest that for this type of question you do a Google search for answers first. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Command Not Found when running Startx
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Kevin B. Payne wrote: Debian GNU Storm Linux (2.2.16) on an AMD 300 CPU + IBM compatible system. During the process of fighting to remove the old Xserver 3.3.? I accidently lost the links or something that is necessary to allow my system to see where the Xserver's programs are. I can startx by hand by going to /usr/X11R6/bin and typing ./startx but then the program complians that xauth and xinit which are both found in the same folder aren't there... IE: It also says, command not found for those files and won't even make an attempt at starting. It sounds as though your PATH doesn't contain the appropriate directories: [ofeeley@ars ofeeley]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/ofeeley/bin edit whatever files Storm Linux uses to set the PATH environment variable (perhaps /etc/profile ?) I have seen the Xserver running by using ./XFree86 -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config But even then it doesn't give me access to The Window Manager ( twm ) which is also in the same folder... What do you mean doesn't give me access ? Do you mean that if you do an exec twm it doesn't run? How can I tell Linux that these files are executable and add them to Files are marked executable in most *NIX filesystems by having the x bit flipped on by chmod. You need to make sure that you only make files executable by specific users for security reasons. (It strikes me that you may be better starting off with a different distro than Storm Linux, or at the very least spending a bit of time with some manuals, HOWTOs (http://www.tldp.org) and books). HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Savage 3D Problem on Red Hat 7.0
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Roger Daniel F Ferreira wrote: Hi, After have installed Red Hat 7.0 on a Pentium Machine I've faced a strange problem regarding the screen. Every time I move some window or even some widget inside a window, I get a completelly messed screen. To fix everything, I need to to a manual refresh using an option on a popup menu of the desktop environment. snip I don't know if may be something regarding the BIOS setup or the viceo card itself. On Windows 98 everything works fine, at least so far. My video card driver was detected as being a S3 Inc I86c794 [Savage 3D]. My monitor was detected as being a SAM1055 (Samsung SyncMaster 550b). I've searched in your site (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/x-faq/xfree86/) without success. Did you try installing the latest savage drivers from http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html ? There's a link to that on the front page of the XFree86 website along with other Member maintained websites in the Documentation link off the front page. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: RE: [XFree86] X server problem
On 12 Feb 2003, atul garg wrote: Thanks Cynthia.. I tried running X server after running the xfs server (i came to know of about from the pointer given by you)but it again failed. The log file is clear but a msg is printed on the screen along with log.. i have included the msg in the log at the place it appears (3rd line from the last) on the console. snip X error log printed on console only XIM DEBUG: XIM DEBUG: not enough free disk space on /tmp waiting for X server to shut down snip Well that tells you pretty clearly that your /tmp directory is full doesn't it? So you need to delete files in /tmp. Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Problem with startx
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, hz wrote: Hello there I am Hendrik Zandt. I have RedHat 8.0 , but unfortunalety I can't startup Xwindows anymore I looked at the screen information and i noticed that i could sent me this report to you Could you please help me with this. Hi Hendrik, You need to first look at your log file (probably /var/log/XFree86.0.log) and see what errors (EE) and warnings (WW) are present. If you can't figure out what they mean with the aid of man XFree86 and http://www.google.com _then_ post the error-log, the /etc/X11/XF86Config here and ask for help. Don't forget to specify what your video-card hardware is (lspci -vv can reveal information about the exact chipset). Red Hat 8.0 also has excellent manuals available which take you through how to configure XFree86 using their redhat-configure-xfree86. Unfortunately as you haven't told us what your hardware is (or anything) noone can help you. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Game Locks up in XWindows, how do I get out withoutrestarting
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Eric Christopherson wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:21:10PM -0800, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: I find it extremely helpful to run a kernel compiled with 'Magic SysRq' enabled. That way, I can hit alt-SysRq-K (yes, all three at once) to kill everything running on the current virtual terminal, such as the X server. I have to do that occasionally when it won't respond to ctrl-alt-backspace or anything. However, you do need it enabled in the kernel. Good point. That's probably the best way for the OP to go if he gets into the lockup again. On the other hand this will mean that he has to recompile his kernel. (Still, no harm in starting some time!). If, for some weird reason, you don't want to do that then you could shut the whole machine down (ugh!) by doing a Ctrl-Alt-Del twice. That is the equivalent of Microsofts three-finger salute. Odd... what does hitting it *twice* do? I've never heard of such a thing. snip I'm not sure. I shouldn't really have said it, except that my experience with a non-responding Savage4 installation was that it seemed to be the only thing that worked. A single Ctrl-Alt-Del seemed to be ignored, but twice rapidly in succesion worked. So, really it's bullshit folklorish advice and you are correct that it is odd and that the best thing to do would be enable Magic SysRq. Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] X windows crash
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Roger Harden wrote: John Tapsell wrote: First, reboot. Then boot by: when you boot, pass the following option to the kernel: 'init=/bin/bash So if you normally type linux, do linux init=/bin/bash There's probably a better way. Perhaps linux single works, or linux safe. I am using GRUB as the boot loader and have tried adding the text linux single onto the end of the kernel line but this has no effect. The system still loads, attempts to load the X windows system (as the /etc/inittab file is still set to id:5:initdefault I assume) and fails. The system then starts looping between the text login screen and a blank screen with the keyboard disabled so that I cannot login to edit the inittab file. Help! Is there any way out apart from deleting the whole installation and starting again? If you boot from CD-1 you can enter rescue mode by typing linux resuce at the boot prompt. (If you don't have a bootable-CD drive then you can make a floppy rescue image and boot off that. Instructions are provided in the RH manuals). With GRUB, you can press e to edit the entry that you boot from and then append an s to the end of the kernel line and then boot from that. That'd get you into single user mode. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] X windows crash
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, John Tapsell wrote: Thank you for this email! I haven't administrated a redhat machine for a long time - I wasn't sure how it was setup. I've noted down your points for future reference :) Glad it was useful. I still don't understand what's going on with the OP's problem. I would like to see not just the error-log, but also the config file and the outputs of /sbin/service xfs status and the command I suggested below. Also, what type of install did the OP select? Is there any chance that he did a Custom and left out some packages necessary? snip machines that I've ssen use the 7100 port. It would be informative if the OP were to do a netstat -A unix | grep font-unix and then see if the output matches something like this: unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 2053 /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100 Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Reporting display problems with XFree86 4.2
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Philip Pawley wrote: I've been a long time getting around to reporting this problem , sorry. I'm having this display problem with several Linux distributions that include Xree86 version 4.2. I have not had the problem with earlier versions of XFree86. THE PROBLEM The whole screen has lots of 1px colored horizontal lines, that sometimes make it impossible to read the screen. I enclose a screen-shot (though the problem is often much more severe than you see here). snip Hi Phillip, this message is going to sound more negative than I want it to, but there's no way around it: please don't send HUGE attachments, like the circa 400kb PNG that you attached with this mail, to a mailing list. Everyone on the list gets a copy! Many people, such as myself, on these lists are using 56k modems and have limited space in our mail accounts. A massive mail like the one that you sent can really mess things up in terms of download times. That said, I hope you get some help with your problem, and thanks for sharing the bug report. Best wishes, Oisin Feeley ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [Newbie]Two trivial problems
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, C. Brewer wrote: Boy oh boy!! I'd like to make some slight adjustments to Oisin's suggestions. While technically accurate, just a little off enough to confuse. snip excellent points Thanks for checking up on me C. ! Your answer is much better. Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]startx problem
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (--) checkDevMem: using aperture driver /dev/xf86 (--) Using wscons driver in pcvt compatibility mode (version 3.32) (WW) xf86AcquireGART: AGPIOC_ACQUIRE failed (Inappropriate ioctl for device) (WW) GARTInit: AGPIOC_INFO failed (Inappropriate ioctl for device) snip (II) LoadModule: xie (WW) Warning, couldn't open module xie (II) UnloadModule: xie (EE) Failed to load module xie (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: pex5 (WW) Warning, couldn't open module pex5 (II) UnloadModule: pex5 (EE) Failed to load module pex5 (module does not exist, 0) In your XF86Config, try commenting out the lines that say `Load xie' and 'Load pex5' in the `Section Modules'. But I don't think this is the real problem. It'll just clear up the log a little. snip (II) LoadModule: dri (WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri (II) UnloadModule: dri (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) I would guess that you also have a `Load dri' module in that section too? Your card is not supported by XFree86-4.2.1 http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status24.html#24 and you need to revert to 3.3.6. To find out if your card is one of those listed on the URL you can use lspci -vv and search for the VGA line reported in that output. snip (==) VGA(0): videoRam: 256 kBytes. This says that you don't have much video memory at all. You will probably be only able to run at very low resolutions and colordepths. snip (II) VGA(0): Not using default mode 640x350 (insufficient memory for mode) snip (II) VGA(0): Not using default mode 800x512 (insufficient memory for mode) Which is born out by all the snipped lines above. To get rid of those warnings you need to look for the section titled monitor and remove all the modelines that were listed above. (II) VGA(0): Not using mode 640x480 (no mode of this name) (--) VGA(0): Virtual size is 320x240 (pitch 320) (**) VGA(0): Default mode 320x240: 12.6 MHz, 31.5 kHz, 60.1 Hz (D) (II) VGA(0): Modeline 320x240 12.59 320 328 376 400 240 245 246 262 doublescan -hsync -vsync snip Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 Running this on a box with 64 MB of RAM, 188MHZ Cyrix processor, Oak Technology Graphics card (no idea what model) running OpenBSD 3.2 with XFree86 4.2.1. Try reverting to 3.3.6. You may be able to run at 8bpp with some low res like 320x240. Personally I'd use the box as CLI only or else get a new video card. Good luck, Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]startx crash
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Jonathan Drews wrote: On Saturday 30 November 2002 10:52 am, J H wrote: I am running SuSE 8.1, and I am trying to get Xwindows 4.2.0 to work. I have an S3 Savage4 on-board video card. When I put in 'startx' in returns this: Hi: Did you try running SuSE's SaX2 X cofiguration tool? BTW Is this a Microtel computer? If so I have the same and can yank my ATI card and try my S3 Savage 4 card and see what has to be done. Also, anyone with Savage based cards would be well advised to get the latest drivers from Tim Robert's page and sign up to the savage driver email list if they have any problems: http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Re: CMI8738 + Xfree86
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Mr. Rafael Cheng wrote: Just realized one more thing... when I logged in x windows as root, I gained some sound. So this make me think that there must be a directory where its permissions is only for root. Does anyone know which directory this may be? Hi Rafael, It may be that the permissions for the sound-device are set so that it is accessible only by root. Even if that is the case your distribution may use a console-permissions model in which users that are logged into the console are allowed to access the devices. If this is the case you will have a file somewhere in /etc that deals with console permissions (possibly /etc/security/console.perms, but this is distribution specific AFAIK). I think you should ask this question on a mailing list specific to your distribution rather than on this list which deals only with XFree86 setup. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Does anyone know anything about compiling Mozilla?
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Joshua L. McDowell wrote: After finally getting mozilla to compile and install in hopes that it would run better it runs much worse. It's laggy and so on, can anyone offer any insight as to why this is? Joshua L. McDowell You'll get more help on this question from one of the mozilla.org newsgroups or on your distro-specific mailinglist. But here are some suggestions: 1. Your distro comes with prelink support and the previous version of mozilla was prelinked and this one isn't? 2. During ./configure you didn't pass aggressive optimizations to the compiler and your previous mozilla was built that way? 3. You may be having some font issues (check the /var/log/messages) Was any of that any use? Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]mail archive
On 1 Dec 2002, Igor Parchakov wrote: Hi, Is there any mail archives available to browse on xfree86.org. I'm configuring X for my PowerMac G4 Cube, and I'm sure my questions are olready answered before. Regards, Igor Up until about a week ago there were. They used to be at http://www.xfree86.org/mailman/listinfo/newbie but I can't find them now. Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]mail archive
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Georgina O Economou wrote: At 12:45 PM 12/1/2002 -0500, you wrote: snip Is there any mail archives available to browse on xfree86.org. I'm configuring X for my PowerMac G4 Cube, and I'm sure my questions are olready answered before. snip There is another method to view the archives: www.marc.theaimsgroup.com Georgina Excellent! Thanks Georgina, this was bugging me too. Actually the www in the address you supplied will not resolve. The URL should be http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree-newbier=1w=2 Cheers, Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Some very basic How-to needed
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Mark R. Muto wrote: Hello all, After years of goofing around with leftover PCs and Frankenstien combinations of older hardware, I decided to give RedHat Linux 8.0 a new PC of its own. I purchased a brand new 1.8ghz Pentium 4 PC from Dell (whitebox equivalent of Optiplex GX260). The system has an Intel D845GBV motherboard with 512MB RAM, 40GB IDE hard drive, integrated audio, video nic. I installed RedHat 8 and the video won't work properly. I can't seem to figure out where to get the drivers (Redhat?,Nope. Intel?, Nope. Dell?, Forget it...) or even how to adjust the video so that it displays properly. I'd hate to run it down at basic 640x480 VGA, but I can't get the GUI to work well enough to change to that either. The 845 chipset was correctly ID'd by the GUI installer, so I don't know what the problem is. It's always been too much work to get Linux running, but I've always felt that I've not given it a fair shake. Now I've got a system that would run any version of Windows superbly. I've made the effort and the investment, and I'm getting pissed off. Please help me if you can. First step is always to check what the chipset actually is (you say it's an i845). Second step is to check and see if the version of XFree86 supplied with the distro has drivers for the chipset (for Red Hat use rpm -q XFree86, in general use X -version, then look at the Driver Status documents http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status17.html#17). In your case the distro-supplied version of XFree86 doesn't contain drivers. You'll have to download XFree86 source code and build your own - which is easy make world; make install. You can find out how to do all this and much more by using Google to search for information and reading the docs on the http://www.xfree86.org and http://www.tldp.org websites. If you use Google to search the archives of this list then you'll see that several people have discussed the exact same question. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Some very basic How-to needed
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Daryl Lee wrote: I just solved this problem (with a little help from the mailing list). The solution that worked for me is to retrieve the current state of the XFree86 code from their CVS server, run 'make World' and 'make install', then run xf86config again. When I did that (with the same hardware you have) all was well, except that the size of the virtual screen is bigger than the size of the physical screen, resulting in a lot of vertical and horizontal panning. But it beats 640x480. snip Daryl, what does your Section Screen look like? Also in Section Monitor do you have a DisplaySize line? Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Linux distributions.
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Hans Borg wrote: Hi all, Have followed this forum for a time. No doubt that video-cards and associated monitors present problems in any X-server used (XFree86, XFreeBSD .). My impression, though, is that a lot of people using RedHat are running into problems. I my self is using Slackware. I have been told that Slackware requires more knowledge. Isn't that what Linux is about. The user have control. RedHat seems to approach MS-widows OS. That is probably why I am getting so many reports about security holes introduced by RedHat. Other peoples opinion would be interesting to hear. Slackware is a great distribution. So are all the other distributions. Red Hat has the largest market share so more people are using it. Also Red Hat tends to attract more newbies because it appears a little easier or has that reputation. The newbie@xfree86 list probably isn't the best place to start a distro-flamewar. These are always non-productive, convey no information to anyone and waste electrons. It'd be best if we all concentrated on helping each other sort out problems where we can. Sorry if this post sounds a little rude, but I'm sick of distro-discussions. Let's keep it technical and help each other out instead. (Otherwise the *BSD people will triumph ;-) ) Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Linux distributions.
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Jonathan Drews wrote: snip I have found Libranet (which is Debian Woody with an install interface) to be very good. No problems with X in that one. I think SuSE is ok. My video in SuSE runs well. However I am curious about the modprobe: can't locate char-major-226 warning. I thought this was associated with X in some way. Yup, that'd be DRI. Check /usr/src/kernel-version/Documentation/devices.txt : 226 charDirect Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) 0 = /dev/dri/card0First graphics card 1 = /dev/dri/card1Second graphics card ... HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]font issue?
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Jeffrey Ross wrote: Not sure if its a problem with XF (downloaded the xc release via CVS about a week ago). Trying to run Adobe Acrobat and I receive the following error: [jeff@linux2 bin]$ ./acroread Warning: charset UTF-8 not supported, using ISO8859-1. Aborted specifics: started with: RH8.0 kernel 2.4.20-rc4 (needed for IDE DMA) snip Hi Geoffrey, read Red Hat's release notes. You'll save yourself a lot of time: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/release-notes/x86/ QUOTE: Red Hat Linux now installs using UTF-8 (Unicode) locales by default in languages other than Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. This has been known to cause various issues: Certain third party applications, such as the Adobe(R)Acrobat Reader(R) may not function correctly (or crash upon startup) because they lack support for Unicode locales. Until third party developers provide such support in their products, you may work around this issue by setting the LANG environment variable at the shell prompt to C prior to typing the application name. For example: env LANG=C acroread Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]X Clipboard Xtremely Broken
On 27 Nov 2002, Erik Moeller wrote: On Die, 2002-11-26 at 17:29, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: On 26 Nov 2002, Erik Moeller wrote: Hi, whenever I try to paste large amounts of text (1 bytes), e.g. from an editor (irrelevant which one I use) to a browser (also doesn't matter which browser I use), I get big problems. It doesn't matter if I use PRIMARY or CLIPBOARD, the pasted text just doesn't arrive. In Mozilla I just get a long delay and nothing happens, in Konqueror even stranger things happen, such as random characters appearing in the paste area. I also get the random characters effect in Opera after some testing. The only thing that tends to work well is pasting within the same application. Some applications even lose their clipboard contents when closed. What distribution and version are you using? I know there are strange artifacts with Red Hat 8.0 where emdash and accented characters like the French accent acute will prevent proper cut-n-paste. Happens both in Debian Woody and SuSE 7-8.0. Normal clipboard operations work, just large text causes lots of problems. I would be very surprised if the same operations that don't work on my system (e.g. copying 1 bytes from gvim to Mozilla) work on yours. You're going to have to specify what you mean by copying to Mozilla means. Do you mean pasting into a cgi-bin based form? If so, then that's likely where your problem lies. I can confirm that pasting 13K of text _from_ Mozilla _to_ vim works fine for me. This was using only the standard alphanumeric characters. As soon as quotes and single-quotes were used then the pasting no longer worked. Similarly emdashes. Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Help: Installation of Video / Sound / Modem Drivers -RH Ver 8.0
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, N Sriram wrote: snip Yesterday, I had successfully installed RH Ver 8.0 in my machine. My Machine Configuration is as follows: P4 1.7 Intel D845GLLY Mother Board with integrated Sound and Video 40 GB HDD Samtron 56v 15 Monitor Logitec Optical Mouse... I have the following problem, 1. X Configurator auto deducted my on-board Video Card by installed the i810/815 Chipset Video Drivers I think... due to which, the X when started distorted image appears on the screen.., but I am able to login, the resolution is such that the fonts are too big and everything id out of focus in the monitor. If you were using Red Hat 8.0 then you CAN'T have been using Xconfigurator because it doesn't exist in the distribution. The appropriate tool is redhat-config-xfree86. You need to read the release-notes and the manuals included in your distribution. snip All the rest of your questions are inappropriate for this mailing list which deals with XFree86 configuration problems also. As you are concerned with Red Hat 8.0 you may wish to subscribe to the Red Hat mailing list for this distribution here: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list If you do decide to subscribe, make sure that you read the information about _unsubscribing_ and save your password, because quite a few people don't seem to figure this out. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]memory useage of X
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Jason Riley wrote: This is unlikely as we are running the same top version. also the difference in memeory useage is considerably more then the meagre 32mb on my graphics card. also as i am running processes large enough to fill memory, i am overrunning the system memory when i need more than the remaining 3/4 of my system memory. Is there some optimisation of x memory useage or is this a feature of redhat vs mandrake? ( as i need to reinstall my o.s. it would be useful to know as whilst i am a redhat man if switching to mandrake will improve my memory performance which is key to my work it would be useful to know now) Adam Luter wrote: You are probably using a tool (e.g. top) that is including the memory onboard the video card, as well as the system memory. On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:27:25PM +, Jason RILEY wrote: I've always experienced a massive overuse of memory by X (c 120M ram) but recently a freind running xfree4.2 on mandrake found his usage on upgrading to 4.2 was reduced to c 20M. Thinking ti save memory i also upgraded to xf86 v4.2, however i still use 120M RAM is there an easy way to fix this problem? I think Lionel Lecoq answered this already, but basically the system is running as expected. Linux/BSD/BeOS/MacOSX all try to use as much of the memory as possible. All the processes compete for it. The competition can be weighted using the nice command. See man nice for more details. So, if you have some computational process that you want to be given priority as a memory hog you can set it to a nice-value of -20. You can also use top to renice processes on the fly. Your question is not an XFree86 specific one, it's a general *NIX sysadmin question. Please use your manuals, Google, books and comp.unix.sysadmin. XFree86 is working as expected. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]xkb
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to switch languages (English, French, Italian) very often within the same document where I am using text and graphics - in OpenOffice, specifically. s there some way to switch keyboard layouts on FreeBSD quickly and painlessly as can be done on Windows? On Windows, hiting Left Shift + Alt switches between keyboards. An alternate way of entering accented or strange characters (on Windows) is to hold down Alt and enter the ASCII codes from the number pad, e.g. Alt - 0233 produces é. I was told that xkb (or is it XKB) could do this; that I could switch keyboards with hotkeys. Would this work in OpenOffice? In kde3? Where can I find info on how to implement and use? Thanks in advance, Hi, AFAIK, xkb is implemented as part of the xserver rather than a standalone program. The utilities that make use of it are xkbcomp, xkbprint, xkbbell, xkbevd, xkbvleds, and xkbwatch. There are applets that allow you to switch on the fly from within windowmanagers (such as http://anaproy.homeip.net/proycon/wmkeymapper.tar.gz wmkeymapper within WindowMaker), I think that you might be better off trying to make use of xmodmap (which has a front end http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/ ) or you could try using loadkeys: see man loadkeys for more info. I don't know about a specific key-combo that will do this. There are also things like gnome-character-map, which I presume has a KDE counterpart which are like the character-picker apps in M$Win and Mac and allow one to choose accented character by pushing a keyboard picture button. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Port 32768
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, A.Melon wrote: How can tcp port 32768 be disabled? When using startx, the -nolisten tcp option seems to disallow all tcp access, but when using xdm, it only disallows port 6000. I haven't been able to shut down port 32768, and haven't found any documentation that describes how to do it. Thanks. You could always try using a firewall. Check out www.netfilter.org Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Disable Port 32000+
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, A.Melon wrote: How does one disable tcp access on ports at or about 32768? When I start X with startx, this port doesn't seem to be used, and the -nolisten tcp option makes sure that port 6000 isn't used either. However, when I use xdm, the -nolisten tcp option still turns off port 6000, but a netstat -ap shows that xsm is listening on port 32768 (or 32769, or something similar). I have DisplayManager.requestPort 0 in xdm-config, but it doesn't seem to work. I can't find anything in the xdm or xsm documentation that speaks to this - everything I have found suggests that -nolisten tcp ought to turn off remote access, and it does turn off port 6000, but not port 32768. I don't really want these ports turned on until I fully understand the security implications. A. We heard you the first three times. You are now spamming the list with your repeated demand for information. Please don't. Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]X hangs after being loaded
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Frederik wrote: Greetings everyone, I have installed a fresh Slackware with Xfree 4.1.0. When starting X, the computer just hangs, only a hard reset revives it.I can reach the desktop, but nothing more.I have tried installing 4.2.0, but have recieved the same result.I googled and searched the list archives, but have not found a similar issue. I do not have an unusual setup, and it has worked before with the very same distro and the same installation config, so I am suspecting a config problem.If anyone can think of a config file/BIOS setting/whatever that I might be missing, I would deeply appreciate it.Even the tiniest tidbit of indormation is welcome, as I cannot think of anything anymore. Search through the logs (they're distro dependent), possibly /var/log/XFree86.0.log looking for lines that begin with a (WW). There'll be an explicit statement of what the problem is there. See if it makes any sense. If it doesn't post the log and then maybe someone will be able to help you. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]X on MAC OSX
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paul D. Filliman wrote: I am trying to get X started on my powerbook G4. I have installed Xfree86. The directory¹s look Right. I set the path required. Whenever I attempt to run a program using X I get the error ³Can't open display² I have tried setting DISPLAY to the machine name but it does not work. How can I set DISPLAY, or is there another problem. Your Microsoft Mail User Agent is putting bizarre, non-standard characters into your posts making them hard to read. Have you made sure that you used the syntax DISPLAY=hostname:0 ? The 0 in this specifies the display number. When you say whenever I try to run a program requiring X does that mean that you actually have an X session running? Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
[Newbie]Red Hat 8.0 couldn't open default font error
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have problems with X in redhat 8.0 the computar say me fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'... [snip entire irrelevant digest] Hi, I've retitled your post with a more informative subject. This will help anyone else that uses a search engine to find answers. Please do not Reply to posts if you are not answering or asking a question specifially related to them. Start a new thread instead by composing a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with an appropriate subject line. Please do not quote material unrelated to your post. You quoted the entire digest which means that everyone on this list got a HUGE mail from you which didn't help you or them. Now, on to your question. Do you have a section like this in your /etc/X11/XF86config?: Section Files # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath unix/:7100 EndSection If you don't then you might want to try running redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig on the commandline as root. If you do, then do you have a firewall running on the machine or an overly-restrictive tcpwrapper setting with /etc/hosts.deny? HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Using the intel 82845G video card
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Scott Hadfield wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use the i82845G video card with RedHat 7.3. However, there was no support for this video card until the most recent version of XFree86. I was wondering if it was possible to take just the driver for that card out of cvs and somehow patch the version of XFree86 that I'm using. The reason I don't want to just install the most recent version yet is because we've got about 25 computers all running this video card and I'm worried it will be a long and painful process to do a re-install for each of these machines. It should be possible to just build the driver for that card. If you can get the source for the module and rebuild it against the glibc and kernel-headers that you have installed on RH7.3 then it should be a case of compiling it and moving the new module.o into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers. If you do a Google search for the module name then you _may_ get lucky and find out that someone else has built it. AFAIK it would have to have been built against a compatible kernel and glibc version though. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Is this all there is to XFree86?
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Chuck Gelm wrote: Howdy: I think that I have successfully installed 4.2.1. I can 'startx' and I get a blank desktop with a small clock and three (3) windows; 'login', 'xterm', and 'xterm'. There is no color. It is all monochrome in shades of gray. I can toggle (ctl-alt-'+') among 3 resolutions. Is this all there is? How do I do a Graphic User Interface? Wellyou are! How do I run a Netscape browser? In the xterm try netscape . It sounds as though you are not running a window manager, or else are running a really minimal window manager. In the xterm try a ps -ax | grep wm, ps -ax | grep -i gnome, ps -ax | grep -i kde and report what the results are. If there's nothing at all then you haven't got a WM running or a desktop manager. These are what provide all the nice decorations and backgrounds. You could then (initially from the xterm, but later from your distro-specific scripts) run something like WindowMaker, or go the whole hog and run a desktop like Gnome or KDE. Check to see how your distro prefers to do it by reading their release docs. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Please help: refresh rate too high in RH8 generatedconfig
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Lionel Lecoq wrote: I don't know RH 8 but RH 7.x generates two config files both located in /etc/X11. The one XF86Config is there for those who use X 3.3.6 the other XF86Config-4 for those who use X 4.x.x If you have such a setup, any change to the wrong config file won't have much effect... Lionel Red Hat 8.0 only generates a single file /etc/X11/XF86Config. The XFree86-3.3.6 server and drivers have been completely removed and so the need for two sets of config files is gone. ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]Please help: refresh rate too high in RH8 generated
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Lance Birtcil wrote: I've installed RedHat 8 on my machine and am running into a bit of a problem with the xserver. I'm trying to run my monitor, a Viewsonic G810, at 1600x1200 but something (xserver ??) keeps insisting on using a refresh rate of 85.2 Hz, higher than that which my monitor supports at that resolution. Here are some details: From Viewsonic's site, g810 characteristics: Horizontal refresh range: 30 - 97 kHz, Vertical refresh range: 50 - 180 Hz What I've tried: First, I used the Redhat setup configuration. When I Does this mean that you ran the redhat-config-xfree86 tool from the commandline as root? That tool enables you to enter the ranges and to select the resolution and it will calculate the max acceptable modelines. restarted after install, I got the black screen of death. Then I ran /etc/X11/bin/xf86config manually and set the ranges above, restarted the This is not the Red Hat preferred configuration tool for XFree86. [snip] I know that the monitor will do 1600x1200 @ 76Hz, but for the life of me, I cannot find where (actually how) to explicitly set vertical refresh. I believe the rate based on the numbers entered in the file at IIRC, there are a set of preset VESA modes built-in to the XFree86. If your desired modes are in anyway determined to be incorrect then they will be used to override the XF86Config [snip] What does ddcprobe return? P.s you could try asking on the redhat-xfree86-list where Mike A. Harris the Red Hat XFree86 maintainer hangs out. HTH, Oisin Feeley p.s. please set your mail client to wrap the lines at =72 characters as your post is unreadable (goes off screen) unless it is reformatted (I've done that in the includes to this reply). You're more likely to get answers if people can read your mail, and they're more likely to be polite! ;-) ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
