Re: X -window how can I start it?

2004-03-31 Thread Tom Chance
On Wednesday 31 Mar 2004 16:09, Torbjörn Schultz wrote: Hallo I am a real beginner. I have successfully, I hope, installed debian, just the base installation nothing more. I am getting the two pormpts as user and root and the commands work etc. But I cant start X windows, I have trided

X missing XVideo extension (was Re: Xine/Mplayer can't use xv)

2004-03-31 Thread Tom Chance
xdpyinfo and grepping for XVIDEO. And can anyone suggest why a Debian machine I recently set-up might be missing this extension, even with libxv installed? Regards, Tom On Tuesday 30 Mar 2004 12:22, Tom Chance wrote: Hello, I've got an install of Debian sid (unstable) with Xfree 4.3.0.1

Re: X missing XVideo extension (was Re: Xine/Mplayer can't use xv)

2004-03-31 Thread Tom Chance
On Wednesday 31 Mar 2004 20:43, Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 21:14, Tom Chance wrote: Can anybody confirm whether or not they have the XVideo extension working in a recently updated Debian unstable. You can find out by running xdpyinfo and grepping for XVIDEO. So

Xine/Mplayer can't use xv

2004-03-30 Thread Tom Chance
Hello, I've got an install of Debian sid (unstable) with Xfree 4.3.0.1, an nvidia card and the latest builds of mplayer and xine. Neither can use the xv extension. When I try, I get the following errors: With mplayer: Xlib: extension XFree86-VidModeExtension missing on display :0.0. vo: X11

Re: Xine/Mplayer can't use xv

2004-03-30 Thread Tom Chance
On Tuesday 30 Mar 2004 13:49, Albert Dengg wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 12:22:33PM +0100, Tom Chance wrote: Hello, I've got an install of Debian sid (unstable) with Xfree 4.3.0.1, an nvidia card and the latest builds of mplayer and xine. Neither can use the xv extension. When I try, I

Re: Xine/Mplayer can't use xv

2004-03-30 Thread Tom Chance
On Tuesday 30 Mar 2004 15:35, Albert Dengg wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:59:19PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: ... I'm using the nv unacelarated driver, and have some success with: mplayer -fs -vo xvidix nvidia_vid $@ It's not too quick, but it's a heck of a lot quicker than default

Re: KDM won't start

2004-03-27 Thread Tom Chance
Hello again, Good news... the problem is fixed. A friend of mine had the idea of prepending su -c root to the start-stop-daemon line, thinking it might be a permissions problem, and hey presto it works. Obviously init doesn't have permission to start KDM with X or something. Tom On Friday 26

Re: KDM won't start

2004-03-26 Thread Tom Chance
Hi, On Friday 26 Mar 2004 22:25, Bokeron wrote: Is there a link to /etc/init.d/kdm on /etc/rc3.d? As I can remember, runlevel 2 is for the graphic login, I've never used runlevel 3, though, of course, that's not fixed, you can configure it your own way. I tried both runlevels 2 and 3, with no

Re: KDM won't start

2004-03-26 Thread Tom Chance
On Friday 26 Mar 2004 23:52, Kent West wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:11, Tom Chance wrote: Hi, On Friday 26 Mar 2004 22:25, Bokeron wrote: Is there a link to /etc/init.d/kdm on /etc/rc3.d? As I can remember, runlevel 2 is for the graphic login, I've never used runlevel 3, though