Robert Nicholson writes:
> I've heard that the acceleration is worth it. Particularly on my Tecra.
>
> So are the .deb's available for 3.2A?
No. Debian only includes software for which source is available; the
XFree86 betas are binary only releases.
If you are only interested in the accelerat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I've looked through the dependencies and I think xlib6 should be installed
> first. Turns out there is something called "xlib" that is blocking an
> easy upgrade. I get the following few errors:
In this particular case it's a bug in the gwm package; it depends on
x
Guy Maor writes:
> Add this to your XF86Config file:
>
> Section "Modules"
> Load "pex5.so"
> Load "xie.so"
> EndSection
Alternatively, if you don't use PEX and XIE then don't add the Load
lines. Save yourself a bit of memory...
Steve Early
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> So far, I've only been able to manually get a second X session going for
> root (doesn't seem to work for a normal user :( ) by using the following
> command line: "startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64 :1"
How about something like 'X :1 -query machinename' where mach
Stan Brown writes:
> Could someone give me a complete list of the Debian packages neededto
> upgradeto XFree 3.2 ?
Filenames and md5sums:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2027180 Nov 10 05:23 xbase_3.2-0_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14588186 Nov 10 05:36 xbooks_3.2-0_all
[no-longer CCed to debian-devel because this isn't a developer issue
really]
Bill Bumgarner writes:
>
> I have to vent.
>
> I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is
> still such a completely inconsistent and painful user interface.
Ah. The X Window System i
Bill Bumgarner writes:
> 1) XF86Setup doesn't provide for resolutions beyond 1280x1024 [though it
> does a nice job of ensuring that the server chooses the HIGHEST available
> resolution].
Resolutions beyond 1280x1024 are not yet a common case. I suspect that
most people using higher resolution
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>I have installed Debian 1.1.9 and xbase, xlib, xserver-svga, and fvwm
>packages. I chose during xbase to use xdm to start x.. and during boot-up
>I see the message "starting xdm".. however typing "xdm" at a root prompt
>doesn't do anything. I tried xinit a
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>How is the X authorization set up in Debian?
>
>I am running xdm and I discovered that only the login user can
>start an X window.
The 'MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE' authentication method is being used; only X
clients with access to the appropriate 'cookie' (an autom
On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Max Hyre wrote:
>Martin Alonso Soto Jacome's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> answer got to
> me first:
>
> > Well, that's exactly what xdm is intended for. xdm tries to keep an
> > xserver running permanently, so that you can always login to the system
> > using a nice graphical l
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, David M. Cooke wrote:
> I ran into this. Reading /etc/X11/Xsession told me enough to
> fix it.
>
> Edit /etc/X11/config and add the following lines:
> allow-user-resources
> allow-user-modmap
> allow-user-xsession
>
> I think this should be concidered a bug. These lines sh
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Zachary DeAquila wrote:
> I can't seem to log in through xdm into my newly upgraded from .93 to 1.1
> system. I log in, the screen freaks out as it swaps video modes to
> the correct one that I'm running (or is it restarting the X server?
> whatever) and then... it comes back
On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> The problem is that, with telnet, windows started on the remote
> machine open without problems in the local display, even without
> giving a xhost on the local machine. Is this correct? It only
> happens if you are the same user on both machines.
How
On Mon, 20 May 1996, Steven Boothe wrote:
> Here's the copy that followed the result of inserting my
> root disk at the prompt:
>
> "RAMDISK 1474560 starting 0x0024
> insert root
> VFS: Disk change detected on device 210
> RAM disk trying oldstyle RAM image
> RAM disk trying oldstyle RAM ima
On Mon, 20 May 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:
> Is it impossible to distribute a real compress program? I know there
> may be problems with an LZW patent, but I don't know how they relate
> to the distribution of a compress program for say personal use.
> If this is possible I'll make a package for i
On Mon, 20 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I have tried to use imake on several packages recently. If I try xmkmf I
> get something like:
>
> imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config
> Imakefile.c:3: Imake.tmpl: No such file or directory
> imake: Exit code 33. Stop.
>
> Anyone know what
On Mon, 20 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
> I've noticed that, so far, I can virtually indiscriminately mix and match ELF
> and a.out on a partially updated debian system. I'm now wanting to upgrade
> X. Will I still be able to use a.out and ELF binaries under X?
Yes. The xcompat package contains
On Sun, 19 May 1996, William S. Gribble wrote:
> Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I'm not interested in hearing any more complaints or even extensive
> > suggestions for improvement, unless the person complaining is
> > volunteering to do the work on a new interface.
>
> If you don't want feedback about th
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Olaf Erb wrote:
> Loading emacs freezes X11 completely for
> about 5 seconds, with a.out everything slowed down during emacs-startup, too,
> but not like now. That's the price we pay for new features..
Maybe the new version of emacs is requesting more fonts? The X server
do
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> Stephen Early ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 16 May 1996 12:45:
> >> e.g. have xdm login screens on vc 3,4,5,6
> >Yes, it's possible. Bear in mind that it will be necessary to run an X
> >server for each VC, wh
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > /etc/init.d/xdm stop
> >
> When I run the script it seems to run ok, produces no output, and returns
> the prompt. However, killing fvwm2 still produces a new login screen (even
> when you do it several times). 'ps a' still shows no xdm process.
I see
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> OK, so, I used xdm to start X and things work fine. When I exit fvwm2 I
> get a login prompt. Now, I want to shut down the server.
>
> A. I can find no xdm process either with ps a or top. Is it hiding?
No, it should be there. You should be able to kill
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
> i don't use xdm at the moment, just startx.
>
> Is it possible to get xdm to put a login prompt on more than one vc?
>
> e.g. have xdm login screens on vc 3,4,5,6
>
> so i can login on vc3 but let other people share my machine in X windows
> without
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> When I try xdm as a user (with the server up and running via root) I get
> told:
> Only root wants to use xdm
> Have I got some permissions wrong? Or have I just missunderstood...again.
You have misunderstood. When it is set up correctly, xdm can be star
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I am somewhat put off by the hodge podge of packages in the x11 section. I
> know I need:
> xserver_x I chose xserver_svga
> xlib
> xbase
> xfntbase
> xmanpages
> fvwm2
Actually you don't need the xmanpages package; it contains the manpages
to do wi
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
you write:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~] >dpkg -S xconsole
>xbase: /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole
>xbase: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xconsole.1x
>
>Hope that answers your question... That's the unstable xbase.
It is, of course, in the stable xbase as well.
Steve Early
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 10 May 1996, Martin Konold wrote:
> I did a ln -s /usr/X11R6 /usr/X386
> in order to get the motif application netscape running.
> This way it will find the
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
> for wihich netscape looks at
> /usr/X386/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
>
> May the debian team will include th
> when I start X through xdm, I get a nice xconsole that displays all kind
> of messages. When I start xconsole by hand from an X-session (or from my
> .xsession-file), I don't get them. How do I get them anyway?
Messages from syslogd to xconsole are sent through the named pipe
/dev/xconsole. Y
On Tue, 7 May 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:
> - Xconsole is still not anywhere.
You mean the xconsole program, or the named pipe in /dev? I think that
/dev/xconsole should be managed by the syslogd package, as the default
syslogd configuration refers to it.
> - Having chosen my X server and answer
On Thu, 2 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> I upgraded X to ELF from .99R6, and after going through xbase, xfnt*,
> xlib and some clients, xdm didn't start the server. I had to
> re-decipher all the mess of xdm which I obviously had forgotten :-(
This is fixed in xbase-3.1.2-9, uploaded today.
On Mon, 6 May 1996, Douglas Bates wrote:
> When xbase was being installed I thought I responded that I wanted xdm
> to be started at boot time. Now I can see that after a reboot an xdm
> process is running but no X-server is started on the default display.
It's a known bug in the current X packa
On Thu, 2 May 1996, Francisco Avelino da Silva wrote:
> * The X configuration: hh. I run X well when I try startx xinit or
> xdm with fvwm. When I used openwin upon xdm was more complicated, but with
> some effort now it works (at home I have a new atlantis-intel
> motherboard with a AtiMach64
On Thu, 2 May 1996, James D. Freels wrote:
> Can I install v 1.1 over the existing v 0.93R6 installation as a usual
> package (or whole sets of packages) upgrade? I could not find
> instructions on how to do that.
Yes, you can. Two sets of instructions have been posted to debian-user
recently d
On Thu, 2 May 1996, gli wrote:
> Then I joyfully upgraded the rest of the system. I upgraded the X11 from
> the unstable tree, after I fetched all the packages that I need such as
> xbase, xserver-mach32, etc, and install it, also using dselect and
> dpkg-ftp, but I got some error messages at the
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