Re: Minor video problem with 700 MHz iBook

2002-06-13 Thread Matt Wong
Hi Tim On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:00:52PM +1000, Tim Bateman wrote: > I'm successfully running Michel Daenzers XFree86 4.2 build and benh's > latest kernel version (pre10 I think) on a new 700MHz iBook with Radeon L6 > Mobility, with just one niggling problem: I'm running the same setup except on

Minor video problem with 700 MHz iBook

2002-06-13 Thread Tim Bateman
I'm successfully running Michel Daenzers XFree86 4.2 build and benh's latest kernel version (pre10 I think) on a new 700MHz iBook with Radeon L6 Mobility, with just one niggling problem: - after I quit an X session, the console is corrupted and the text is often persistent on the screen. Running

Re: X won't start

2002-06-13 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:02:16PM -0600, Marc Stergionis wrote: > Sometime around 11:01 PM +0200 on 6/13/02, H?vard Skinnemoen wrote thus: > The uncommented urls, therefore, that resulted in the above messages are: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free

Re: X won't start

2002-06-13 Thread Marc Stergionis
Sometime around 5:47 PM -0400 on 6/13/02, Josh Huber wrote thus: Here's what your /etc/apt/sources.list file should look like if you want woody from http.us.debian.org + non-us: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ woody main contrib deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main

Re: XF86 problems on Powerbook Ti

2002-06-13 Thread Michel Lanners
On 13 Jun, this message from Jamie Heckford echoed through cyberspace: > Im having real problems getting my Powerbook Ti to run X properly. > > Does anyone know what resolutions/modes are supported, and is there > any way I can configure X (change resolutions etc.) Without editing > /etc/X11/XF86

Re: X won't start

2002-06-13 Thread Marc Stergionis
Sometime around 11:01 PM +0200 on 6/13/02, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote thus: > Cool. Been doing apt-get update it keeps telling me lgn http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Release then I get a while of a small percentage of [Connecting to http.us.debian.org] the percentage has never see

Re: X won't start

2002-06-13 Thread Josh Huber
BTW: your Mail-Followup-To header is busted. It just listed "skinnemo" and the debian-powerpc list address. Håvard Skinnemoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Whops...I'm sorry. You're from the US, aren't you? If so, non-US > won't be available, AFAIK. I have no idea about the availability of > cry

Re: XF86 problems on Powerbook Ti

2002-06-13 Thread Brett Carter
It's not possible to configure X for a TI without twiddling the XConfig by hand. You'll want to add a modeline to the monitors section, which you can get by typing "fbdev -x" if your frame buffer is setup correctly. Without this, modline, my powerbook's screen was just scrambled. (3rd gen, 128

Re: X won't start

2002-06-13 Thread Håvard Skinnemoen
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:58:16PM -0600, Marc Stergionis wrote: > Sometime around 8:49 PM +0200 on 6/13/02, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote thus: > > > debian stable main contrib non-free > >> debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free > >> stable/updates main contrib non-free > > > >Ah..."stable"

Re: X won't start

2002-06-13 Thread Marc Stergionis
Sometime around 8:49 PM +0200 on 6/13/02, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote thus: > debian stable main contrib non-free debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free stable/updates main contrib non-free Ah..."stable" is currently an alias of "potato", so that's the word you should replace with "w

Re: X won't start

2002-06-13 Thread Håvard Skinnemoen
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:53:02AM -0600, Marc Stergionis wrote: > Sometime around 7:11 PM +0200 on 6/13/02, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote thus: [...] > >You'll need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point apt-get to woody > >instead of potato. To put it simply, you just have to substitute all > >occurren

Suspend problems on IBook Radeon

2002-06-13 Thread Marc Menem
> Harvard Skinnemoen wrote > > I'm running sid and XF86 4.2.0 :) You should probably upgrade to woody. > As for XF86, my Radeon M7 wasn't supported before XF86 4.2.0. I don't > know what video hardware you've got, but Michel has posted a link to > XF86 4.2.0 binaries to this list on several occas

Re: X won't start

2002-06-13 Thread Marc Stergionis
Sometime around 7:11 PM +0200 on 6/13/02, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote thus: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:54:08AM -0600, Marc Stergionis wrote: At sometime around 8:11 PM -0700 on 6/12/02, Chris Tillman wrote thus: [...] >Probably, you need to set your mouse device to /dev/input/mice in the >/etc/

Re: X won't start

2002-06-13 Thread Håvard Skinnemoen
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:54:08AM -0600, Marc Stergionis wrote: > At sometime around 8:11 PM -0700 on 6/12/02, Chris Tillman wrote thus: [...] > >Probably, you need to set your mouse device to /dev/input/mice in the > >/etc/X11/XF86Config file. However, I'm pretty confident that's not > >going to

Re: X won't start

2002-06-13 Thread Marc Stergionis
At sometime around 8:11 PM -0700 on 6/12/02, Chris Tillman wrote thus: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:47:31PM -0600, Marc Stergionis wrote: I've just installed Debian on an 8600 (upgraded to G4-400). When I boot, I get a good bootup process, then 4 gray screens flash before I get a prompt (text

Re: XF86 problems on Powerbook Ti

2002-06-13 Thread Håvard Skinnemoen
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:30:50PM +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: > Hi, > > Im having real problems getting my Powerbook Ti to run X properly. > > Does anyone know what resolutions/modes are supported, and is there > any way I can configure X (change resolutions etc.) Without editing > /etc/X11/XF8

Re: First time installing Debian!

2002-06-13 Thread Luiz C. Guidolin
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Mo Oishi wrote: > Luiz C. Guidolin wrote: > > > > >Now about the Internet connection: > > > >5) Internet > > I'm using a ADSL with dynamic IP witch requires authentication. On X I > > just have to set PPP => PPPoe and provide my info, such as login and > > password and

Re: XF86 problems on Powerbook Ti

2002-06-13 Thread jtv
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:30:50PM +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: > > Im having real problems getting my Powerbook Ti to run X properly. > > Does anyone know what resolutions/modes are supported, and is there > any way I can configure X (change resolutions etc.) Without editing > /etc/X11/XF86confi

Re: First time installing Debian!

2002-06-13 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:53:04PM +0200, jtv wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:30:19PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > I didn't think OSX could be installed on an Apple_HFS partition. I thought > > it > > had to be HFS+. > > IIRC HFS+ also gets listed as Apple_HFS in mac-fdisk... > > >

Re: Boot X extension

2002-06-13 Thread Josh Huber
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IMHO?? (I'm sorry, but what i s this? Chris be Linux Dummy) It's not a Linux thing :) I suggest you install dict (apt-get install dict), and type "dict IMHO": >From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]: IMHO // abbrev. [from SF fandom via Usenet; abb

XF86 problems on Powerbook Ti

2002-06-13 Thread Jamie Heckford
Hi, Im having real problems getting my Powerbook Ti to run X properly. Does anyone know what resolutions/modes are supported, and is there any way I can configure X (change resolutions etc.) Without editing /etc/X11/XF86config by hand? Im running potato and XF86 3.3.6 Thanks for any help :) --

Re: Boot X extension

2002-06-13 Thread Robert Bar
At 09:26 Uhr +0200 13.06.2002, Michael Schmitz wrote: (...) BS. Rather because MacOS has a tendency to mess up some hardware settings and the X server has trouble coping with that mess. If you don't have to use BootX (as in: ancient hardware) please use yaboot. i'm using (i.e. trying to use

Re: First time installing Debian!

2002-06-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:10:43AM -0400, Mo Oishi wrote: > > > Luiz C. Guidolin wrote: > > > > >Now about the Internet connection: > > > >5) Internet > > I'm using a ADSL with dynamic IP witch requires authentication. On X I > > just have to set PPP => PPPoe and provide my info, such as login

Re: First time installing Debian!

2002-06-13 Thread Mo Oishi
Luiz C. Guidolin wrote: Now about the Internet connection: 5) Internet I'm using a ADSL with dynamic IP witch requires authentication. On X I just have to set PPP => PPPoe and provide my info, such as login and password and it works. But when I tried to configure the application ppp

Re: First time installing Debian!

2002-06-13 Thread jtv
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:30:19PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > I didn't think OSX could be installed on an Apple_HFS partition. I thought it > had to be HFS+. IIRC HFS+ also gets listed as Apple_HFS in mac-fdisk... > > 3) Horizontal Sync Range of my monitor??? > > I don't have a clue.

GNOME Mouse and Screen

2002-06-13 Thread Tim Eagles
I just installed potato Debian on my older model G4 tower with GNOME and several X environments. Now when it starts up it brings up a barely visible login window, I log in and the graphical desktop appears with a cursor in the center and an almost inverse color scheme that is incredibly hard if

Re: Boot X extension

2002-06-13 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > My question: > > Why would I NOT want to use Boot X (or some other utility) and instead > > trying to boot directly into Linux? > > to make your life as hard as can be ;-)) BS. Rather because MacOS has a tendency to mess up some hardware settings and the X server has trouble coping with tha

doesn't work Mode_switch in X11...

2002-06-13 Thread Valentin Podlovchenko
Some time ago (I don't remember exactly when but I know that after one of XFree86 update) Mode_switch stopped to work for me... I've tried to find the problem by myself but can't :( I'm using Debian unstable on iBook 600 14" and XFree86 4.1.0-17 my keyboard configuration: Section "InputDevice"

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