Re: XF86Config-4 - Was: RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-31 Thread marshal
> "deFreese," == deFreese, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: deFreese,> Got it, thanks. One thing that I just noticed in the deFreese,> log is that it is seeing my ATI Rage 128 and finding deFreese,> (vidmem: 16384) and I notice that most of you that have deFreese,> sent me pa

Re: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-31 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jul 30 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > But the easiest way to get more resolutions is > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Yes, I was going to recommend that, but with the slight difference of using: dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 > and choose them in the dialogs

Re: XF86Config-4 - Was: RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-31 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 9:03 AM -0700 7/31/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: One more question if you don't mind. The entry FontPath "unix/:7100" in the config file. What does that mean?? Connect via a unix ipc to the font server (xfs) running on port 7100. -- ___

RE: XF86Config-4 - Was: RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-31 Thread deFreese, Barry
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 9:16 AM To: deFreese, Barry Cc: 'Ole-Egil Hvitmyren'; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: XF86Config-4 - Was: RE: Newbie apt-get question >>>>> "deFreese," == deFreese, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: deFree

Re: XF86Config-4 - Was: RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-31 Thread jonas bandi
One more question if you don't mind. The entry FontPath "unix/:7100" in the config file. What does that mean?? your XFontServer (xfs) should listen on this port for requests and serve them ... jonas

Re: XF86Config-4 - Was: RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-31 Thread masee
> "deFreese," == deFreese, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: deFreese,> Thanks for the replies all. I changed the vertical deFreese,> refresh range and now at least my "800x600" is now in deFreese,> the right place on the screen but I still get a test deFreese,> failed in the

XF86Config-4 - Was: RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-31 Thread deFreese, Barry
faster." Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell -Original Message- From: Ole-Egil Hvitmyren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 12:10 AM To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Newbie apt-get question Chris Tillman wrote: >On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:56:

Re: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-31 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Chris Tillman wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:56:59PM -0700, deFreese, Barry wrote: At 4:38 PM -0700 7/30/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: O.K., I fixed my XFree86 problem and am now running 4.1.0.1. Now my question is, how do I get it running in 1024x768 or 1280x1024? I am using the FBD

Re: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-30 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:56:59PM -0700, deFreese, Barry wrote: > At 4:38 PM -0700 7/30/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: > >O.K., I fixed my XFree86 problem and am now running 4.1.0.1. Now my > >question is, how do I get it running in 1024x768 or 1280x1024? I am using > >the FBDevice and the only opti

RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-30 Thread deFreese, Barry
riginal Message- From: Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 4:53 PM To: deFreese, Barry Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Newbie apt-get question At 4:38 PM -0700 7/30/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: >O.K., I fixed my XFree86 problem

RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-30 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 4:38 PM -0700 7/30/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: O.K., I fixed my XFree86 problem and am now running 4.1.0.1. Now my question is, how do I get it running in 1024x768 or 1280x1024? I am using the FBDevice and the only options configure in my XF86Config-4 is "800x600" and "640x480". Can I just a

RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-30 Thread deFreese, Barry
--Original Message- From: Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:26 PM To: deFreese, Barry Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Newbie apt-get question At 1:09 PM -0700 7/30/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: >Thanks for the tip. /etc/debian_version

RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-30 Thread deFreese, Barry
July 30, 2002 2:03 PM To: deFreese, Barry Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Newbie apt-get question At 1:35 PM -0700 7/30/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: >Wilhelm, > >Thanks for the info on the kernel, still learning all this stuff! 2.2 seems >to be working fine. > >XFree86 ve

RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-30 Thread deFreese, Barry
arry Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Newbie apt-get question At 1:35 PM -0700 7/30/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: >Wilhelm, > >Thanks for the info on the kernel, still learning all this stuff! 2.2 seems >to be working fine. > >XFree86 version number says 11 but the vendo

RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-30 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
At 1:35 PM -0700 7/30/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: Wilhelm, Thanks for the info on the kernel, still learning all this stuff! 2.2 seems to be working fine. XFree86 version number says 11 but the vendor release number says 3360. Yeah, that's 3.3.6. Also, I get an XFree86 version number as the

RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-30 Thread deFreese, Barry
--- From: Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:26 PM To: deFreese, Barry Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Newbie apt-get question At 1:09 PM -0700 7/30/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: >Thanks for the tip. /etc/debian_version does say 3.0 but th

RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-30 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 1:09 PM -0700 7/30/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: Thanks for the tip. /etc/debian_version does say 3.0 but the kernel is 2.2.19, is that correct? I thought they were using 2.4 now?? kernel version is independent of distribution version. You can run Debian 3.0 on top of either a 2.2 or a 2.4 k

RE: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-30 Thread deFreese, Barry
trick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:29 PM To: deFreese, Barry Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Newbie apt-get question >O.K. so I was running potato and last night I get a dist-upgrade. >Everything looks fine but everything still looks like it

Re: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-30 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
O.K. so I was running potato and last night I get a dist-upgrade. Everything looks fine but everything still looks like it's running Potato. What's the best way to verify? Well, you can cat out /etc/debian_version. If you did update to stable, it should say 3.0. Also, I did an apt-get upgra