Re: Debian on iBook startx problem

2002-11-20 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Well, I installed wmaker and then went through your xserver installation instructions all over again, but it's still not working. HOWEVER! Here's a work around I figured out, but I do wish to get this working right. What I do is I issue the command startx -lf

Debian on iBook startx problem

2002-11-19 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Basically, I followed the instructions for installing Debian on an iBook at the site http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium, but after doing the part concerning X, I run startx and get an errors stating among other things that the modules pex5 and xie don't exist. Anyone have any advise

Re: Debian on iBook startx problem

2002-11-19 Thread Mij
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:29:06 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/ Basically, I followed the instructions for installing Debian on an iBook at the site http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium, but after doing the part concerning X, I run

Re: Debian on iBook startx problem

2002-11-19 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Ok, I dowloaded Mij's XF86Config-4 files and put it in /etc/X11and low and behold I got an x session. However, i get just the log on screen. If I log on, it just returns to the log on screen. What's up now? Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:29:06 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL

Re: Debian on iBook startx problem

2002-11-19 Thread Mij
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:16:17 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I dowloaded Mij's XF86Config-4 files and put it in /etc/X11and low and behold I got an x session. However, i get just the log on screen. If I log on, it just returns to the log on screen. What's up now? you do

Re: Debian on iBook startx problem

2002-11-19 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Believe it or not, there are no .xsession or .xinit files in my home directory. Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:16:17 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I dowloaded Mij's XF86Config-4 files and put it in /etc/X11and low and behold I got an x session. However, i

Re: Debian on iBook startx problem

2002-11-19 Thread Mij
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:50:23 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please follow step bye step the instructions in the page i pointed you to. Shut down you display manager, if you use one, and try starting the xserver manually; turning back to the console, you can see immediately what's

Re: Debian on iBook startx problem

2002-11-19 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Ok, i followed your instructions, but nonetheless, I get a grey screen with the mouse. Nothing else. Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:50:23 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please follow step bye step the instructions in the page i pointed you to. Shut down you display

Re: Debian on iBook startx problem

2002-11-19 Thread Curtis Vaughan
turning back to the console, the only error I see is: (EE) RADEON(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (5) Curtis Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:50:23 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please follow step bye step the instructions in the page i pointed you to. Shut down you display manager,

Re: Debian on iBook startx problem

2002-11-19 Thread Curtis Vaughan
oh, i noticed one other warning; X: warning; /dev/dri has unusual mode (not 755) or is not a directory. warning: process set to nice value - instead of -10 as requested. Mij wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:50:23 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please follow step bye step the

Re: Debian on iBook startx problem

2002-11-19 Thread christophe barbe
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:42:35PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: Ok, i followed your instructions, but nonetheless, I get a grey screen with the mouse. Nothing else. Curtis Looks like your X is working but nothing is launched. What do you want to run on X? gnome2, kde, ... ? You can try to

Re: Debian on iBook startx problem

2002-11-19 Thread Mij
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:42:35 -0800 Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, i followed your instructions, but nonetheless, I get a grey screen with the mouse. Nothing else. this means that you have everything working well. The page imply you have some piece of windowmanager installed