Re: Simple iptables table doesn't let me forward X windows

2018-01-20 Thread Jason
On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 07:30:09PM +, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 12:13:12 -0600 > Jason wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to setup (what should be) a simple iptables table between > > two machines on a local network, both with static IP addresses. The > > machine I want to set up th

Re: Simple iptables table doesn't let me forward X windows

2018-01-20 Thread Jason
On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 07:58:27PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 20/01/2018 à 19:13, Jason a écrit : > > > >I am trying to setup (what should be) a simple iptables table > > I don't think so. In iptables, "tables" are preexisting data structures > containing chains, and chains contain rules t

Re: Simple iptables table doesn't let me forward X windows

2018-01-20 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > OK, that leaves little doubt that it's a firewall issue. usually xauth missing or wrong xauth people do upgrade, then just press yes and pile up mess over mess and then come here to ask for help. it's fun regards

Re: Simple iptables table doesn't let me forward X windows

2018-01-20 Thread Joe
On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 12:13:12 -0600 Jason wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to setup (what should be) a simple iptables table between > two machines on a local network, both with static IP addresses. The > machine I want to set up the iptables on is a headless server which I > access using ssh. I want

Re: Simple iptables table doesn't let me forward X windows

2018-01-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 20/01/2018 à 19:13, Jason a écrit : I am trying to setup (what should be) a simple iptables table I don't think so. In iptables, "tables" are preexisting data structures containing chains, and chains contain rules that you create. The set of rules in these chains and tables is called, wel

Simple iptables table doesn't let me forward X windows

2018-01-20 Thread Jason
Hi, I am trying to setup (what should be) a simple iptables table between two machines on a local network, both with static IP addresses. The machine I want to set up the iptables on is a headless server which I access using ssh. I want to cut off all communications except with the machine I ssh f

Re: Projector, Debian, OS X, Windows, HDMI

2016-01-15 Thread German
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:11:51 + Joe wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:54:10 -0500 > German wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > First of all good news. I recently bought not expensive LCD > > projector. So I hooked it up to my computer's HDMI output, plugged > > the other end of HDMI cable to proje

Re: Projector, Debian, OS X, Windows, HDMI

2016-01-15 Thread Joe
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:54:10 -0500 German wrote: > Hi list, > > First of all good news. I recently bought not expensive LCD projector. > So I hooked it up to my computer's HDMI output, plugged the other end > of HDMI cable to projector and voila, all of the context of my monitor > was mirrored

Projector, Debian, OS X, Windows, HDMI

2016-01-15 Thread German
Hi list, First of all good news. I recently bought not expensive LCD projector. So I hooked it up to my computer's HDMI output, plugged the other end of HDMI cable to projector and voila, all of the context of my monitor was mirrored on the wall. All programs, icons, etc.. I opened up movie playe

Re: disable keyboard outside of X Windows too

2014-08-09 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:02:13 +0800 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > So how can I do it (and not zap the USB keyboard at the same time)? This should disable your PS/2 keyboard both in the console or X: echo -n manual > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio0/bind_mode echo -n serio1 > /sys/bus/serio/driver

disable keyboard outside of X Windows too

2014-08-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Gentlemen, I wish to disable my built-in keyboard which is inhabited by a ghost occasionally typing bad things. I will instead use my USB keyboard. Of course in X windows, all that is needed is $ xinput --disable 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard' The problem is I wish to disable the ba

X windows not refreshing using opengl

2013-05-04 Thread Pjotr Malienki
Whenever I'm running a windowed opengl application, say mplayer -vo gl, the window will not refresh. Switching (e.g. ALT-TAB) to a different window will force a single update. Running full-screen may or may not cause the window to be refreshed properly (e.g. mplayer works fine, a wine applicatio

Re: X-windows copy/paste mess [SOLVED]

2011-03-22 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:13:01 + (UTC), I wrote: > I'm running testing (Wheezy) and am failing to get copy/paste working cleanly > among my most common windows, namely: > > several xterms > virtualbox running a virtual XP client > iceweasel > ... > Is there any way to get all of these program

X-windows copy/paste mess

2011-03-21 Thread Steve Kleene
I'm running testing (Wheezy) and am failing to get copy/paste working cleanly among my most common windows, namely: several xterms virtualbox running a virtual XP client iceweasel The window manager is fvwm. As far as I can tell, the problem comes down to this: virtualbox only reads from

Re: Resolved issue in 2.6.32-5-686 kernel using x windows.

2011-03-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4d71a670.4030...@gmail.com>, Ryan David Larrowe wrote: > > I had filed a bug report about my system not booting properly and > >was unable to file it against the Debian version I was using for that > >reason( it wouldn't boot ). > > Whil

Re: Resolved issue in 2.6.32-5-686 kernel using x windows.

2011-03-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d71a670.4030...@gmail.com>, Ryan David Larrowe wrote: > I had filed a bug report about my system not booting properly and >was unable to file it against the Debian version I was using for that >reason( it wouldn't boot ). While bugs get discussed here, they don't get reported here, nor to

Resolved issue in 2.6.32-5-686 kernel using x windows.

2011-03-04 Thread Ryan David Larrowe
To whom it may concern: I had filed a bug report about my system not booting properly and was unable to file it against the Debian version I was using for that reason( it wouldn't boot ). The screen would flash along with the keyboard lights and the system was unresponsive. I am sending

Re: debian testing amd64: X windows trouble after todays updates. (input events problem?)

2010-12-12 Thread Vuki
On 2010.12.10. 14:41, Peter Koellner wrote: Well, I found the dpkg log with all the packages updated in that batch. one of them or a combination has to be responsible. I guess it might be desktop-base 6.0.2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: debian testing amd64: X windows trouble after todays updates. (input events problem?)

2010-12-10 Thread Peter Koellner
Well, I am using debian testing on laptops since around 1999. Stable always seems to be missing the one or other driver or configuration for that, sometimes I have to fall back to unstable. Anyway, what I do now - in fact, have already done - is sending in a bug report. I still have my doubts th

Re: debian testing amd64: X windows trouble after todays updates. (input events problem?)

2010-12-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Peter Koellner wrote: Well, I found the dpkg log with all the packages updated in that batch. one of them or a combination has to be responsible. I guess it might be desktop-base 6.0.2 Indeed, but what are you going to do? I do a backup before a dist-upgrade, so I can fall back to somethi

Re: debian testing amd64: X windows trouble after todays updates. (input events problem?)

2010-12-10 Thread Peter Koellner
Well, I found the dpkg log with all the packages updated in that batch. one of them or a combination has to be responsible. I guess it might be desktop-base 6.0.2 -- peter koellner 2010-12-09 16:33:55 upgrade php-net-smtp 1.4.2-1 1.4.2-3 2010-12-09 16:33:57 upgrade php-soap 0.12.0-1 0.12.0-2 2

Re: debian testing amd64: X windows trouble after todays updates. (input events problem?)

2010-12-10 Thread Peter Koellner
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Peter Koellner wrote: I switched between xdm and gdm, and the problem with unresponsive window manager and locked in focused window seems to go away with that, though I am not totally sure. Today I am having the same effect after starting the gnome session via xdm, so the

Re: debian testing amd64: X windows trouble after todays updates. (gdm problem?)

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Koellner
I switched between xdm and gdm, and the problem with unresponsive window manager and locked in focused window seems to go away with that, though I am not totally sure. Inbetween, it worked with gdm for a short time, but on the second try I started a terminal window and iceweasel/firefox in quick

debian testing amd64: X windows trouble after todays updates. (gdm problem?)

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Koellner
Hi! I am running a lenovo thinkpad T510 with debian testing. after doing a maintenance package update today, I discovered that the gnome desktop locked up frequently. That is, the current foreground application still gets mouse and keypoard input, but window manager and gnome panel funcionality w

Re: no x windows part2

2010-12-06 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > In , shawn > wilson wrote: > >so, i'm installing dependencies for drupal on this debian box. it wants > >php5-gd which has some x windows dependencies. > > It depends on

Re: no x windows part2

2010-12-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , shawn wilson wrote: >so, i'm installing dependencies for drupal on this debian box. it wants >php5-gd which has some x windows dependencies. It depends on libx11-6. I guess gd.so needs some symbols from that library. This might be needed for converting to/from some X11-spe

no x windows part2

2010-12-06 Thread shawn wilson
so, i'm installing dependencies for drupal on this debian box. it wants php5-gd which has some x windows dependencies. just for the heck of it, i checked imagemagick which has more dependencies. the only thing i can find in the package that might be required by anything is: /etc/init.d/x11-c

Re: no x windows

2010-12-05 Thread shawn wilson
commends" of openssh-server. >> >> The new default for aptitude is to say "yes" to recommends. There is a >> way to configure your machine so that it says "no" by default to >> recommends. That has been discussed recently on this list. >>

Re: no x windows

2010-12-04 Thread shawn wilson
ly, but I'm guessing it tried to install the package "xauth", > which is a "recommends" of openssh-server. > > The new default for aptitude is to say "yes" to recommends. There is a > way to configure your machine so that it says "no" by default

Re: no x windows

2010-12-04 Thread Phil Requirements
f openssh-server. The new default for aptitude is to say "yes" to recommends. There is a way to configure your machine so that it says "no" by default to recommends. That has been discussed recently on this list. > i've spent two hours googling (and even bing) on h

Re: no x windows

2010-12-04 Thread Mike
shawn wilson wrote: > why do i need x libraries to run an ssh server? Probably because SSH supports X protocol tunneling. > i've spent two hours googling (and even bing) on how to keep x windows off > of debian. But you're not installing X Windows. It's not requirin

no x windows

2010-12-04 Thread shawn wilson
eed x libraries to run an ssh server? i've spent two hours googling (and even bing) on how to keep x windows off of debian. i've found tons of stuff about x windows problems which is ironic since my problem is keeping a minimalistic system which doesn't include x. i know one of the options g

Re: Bizarre X windows behaviour?

2009-11-20 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 11. 2009 00:10:15 je Andrew Sackville-West napisal(a): > > Running Debian lenny. I installed the Catalyst driver (from > > manufacturer) for my ATI Radeon > > HD 4550 card and it seems to be working, but I noticed something I may be misreading your post, but it would be smarter if you in

Re: Bizarre X windows behaviour?

2009-11-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:23:34PM -0500, Zachary Uram wrote: > Running Debian lenny. I installed the Catalyst driver (from > manufacturer) for my ATI Radeon > HD 4550 card and it seems to be working, but I noticed something weird. > Now when I move a window it no longer shows the window static as

Bizarre X windows behaviour?

2009-11-17 Thread Zachary Uram
Running Debian lenny. I installed the Catalyst driver (from manufacturer) for my ATI Radeon HD 4550 card and it seems to be working, but I noticed something weird. Now when I move a window it no longer shows the window static as it is being moved, it's like it keeps redrawing it as I move it. So as

Re: debian 4.0 r0 installation - x-windows starts but gets stuck in black in white screen

2007-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:53:53AM -0800, 2006me wrote: > Hi, I have the following issue. When I start my recent debian > installation (4.0 r0) everything work fine except when it comes to > start the x-window. It starts up but gets stuck in a black and white > screen with the mouse pointer as a X.

debian 4.0 r0 installation - x-windows starts but gets stuck in black in white screen

2007-12-04 Thread 2006me
Hi, I have the following issue. When I start my recent debian installation (4.0 r0) everything work fine except when it comes to start the x-window. It starts up but gets stuck in a black and white screen with the mouse pointer as a X. right away. Nothing else happens. Gnome will not come up even i

Re: Launch App without X-Windows

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:08:02PM -0500, Stephen Yorke wrote: > Thanks a lot Andrew. > > I think you have cleared up a few things for me now and think I have to > go and research the .xinitrc file and see if that is going to work > properly with fluxbox so I can get rid of GDM and just launch a s

RE: Launch App without X-Windows

2007-01-10 Thread Stephen Yorke
which was just thrown at me. Thanks again for the answers. -Stephen -Original Message- From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:51 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Launch App without X-Windows On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:26

Re: Launch App without X-Windows

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
u want. A > > -Stephen > > > > From: Kevin Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wed 1/10/2007 2:23 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Launch App without X-Windows > > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:55:21PM -050

RE: Launch App without X-Windows

2007-01-10 Thread Stephen Yorke
Or no Desktop Manager...no KDM, GDM, ETC... -Original Message- From: Kevin Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:24 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Launch App without X-Windows -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 10

RE: Launch App without X-Windows

2007-01-10 Thread Stephen Yorke
without X-Windows -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:55:21PM -0500, Stephen Yorke wrote: > Hello all and thanks in advance to any replies I get to this message. > > I have a couple of things... > > What I want to do is be able to launch appli

Re: Launch App without X-Windows

2007-01-10 Thread Kevin Mark
indow Manager, Video stuff, Mouse, Keyboard, ETC) 2. Any recommended > links to read about what I actually want to do? > > Thanks a lot, Stephen Hi Stephen, here is some info: firefox requires X windows. X windows has certain requirements. video card->kernel modules-&g

Launch App without X-Windows

2007-01-10 Thread Stephen Yorke
Hello all and thanks in advance to any replies I get to this message. I have a couple of things... What I want to do is be able to launch applications without actually loading X. What I mean is, I want to load RDesktop or Firefox or some other application and without actually having a deskto

RE: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen Yorke
Message- From: Kevin B. McCarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 3:31 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Minimal X-Windows Setup Stephen Yorke wrote: > I have tried the EXACT listing you have here but it still puts on all > the xserver-xorg-video-*

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:31:28PM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: [...] > The trick here is that the -vesa package Provides "xserver-xorg-video". > So if you install xserver-xorg-video-vesa FIRST, then xserver-xorg's > dependency on "xserver-xorg-video-all | xserver-xorg-video" is satisfied > wi

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Stephen, > 'x-window-system-core' < 'x-window-system', so install the former. Nope, they're exactly the same in Etch and Sid. Assuming there are no sarge, sarge security, or backports entries in your sources.list, try apt-cache show x-window-system-core | egrep '^(Depend|

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Yorke wrote: > > > I have tried the EXACT listing you have here but it still puts on all > > the xserver-xorg-video-* stuff...I do not know exactly how much overhead > > these packages add but I would really rather using just the VESA driver

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Stephen. Stephen Yorke, 02.10.2006 21:18: > I have tried the EXACT listing you have here but it still puts on all > the xserver-xorg-video-* stuff... That’s not a problem as you can remove unecessary video drivers anytime you want after that. > I do not know exactly how much overhead > the

RE: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Stephen Yorke wrote: > I have tried the EXACT listing you have here but it still puts on all > the xserver-xorg-video-* stuff...I do not know exactly how much overhead > these packages add but I would really rather using just the VESA driver > and remove the rest...but a question about that...how

RE: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen Yorke
: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:24:10PM -0400, Stephen Yorke wrote: > > All, > > I am looking for a basic X-Windows setup&I have tried several things but I am > just not getting it. > > Does anyone have some s

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:24:10PM -0400, Stephen Yorke wrote: > > All, > > I am looking for a basic X-Windows setup&I have tried several things but I am > just not getting it. > > Does anyone have some sort of package list which will get me a BASIC/MINIMAL X > s

RE: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen Yorke
the VESA driver? Thanks in advance, Stephen -Original Message- From: Kevin B. McCarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 3:09 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:24:1

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:24:10PM -0400, Stephen Yorke wrote: >> I am looking for a basic X-Windows setup...I have tried several things >> but I am just not getting it. >> >> Does anyone have some sort of package list which will get me

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:24:10PM -0400, Stephen Yorke wrote: > All, > > > > I am looking for a basic X-Windows setup...I have tried several things > but I am just not getting it. > > > > Does anyone have some sort of package list which will get me a > BAS

Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen Yorke
All,   I am looking for a basic X-Windows setup…I have tried several things but I am just not getting it.   Does anyone have some sort of package list which will get me a BASIC/MINIMAL X setup.  Anytime I do anything with X-WINDOW-SERVER-* I get tons of dependencies and I do not want

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 00:29:01 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael M. wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >Make sure you have the packages "discover1" (for 2.6 kernels) or > > >"discover" (for 2.4 kernels) installed, as well as "xresprobe", > > > > Oh, so *that's* the difference between 'discover

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-25 Thread Joey Hess
Michael M. wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >Make sure you have the packages "discover1" (for 2.6 kernels) or > >"discover" (for 2.4 kernels) installed, as well as "xresprobe", > > Oh, so *that's* the difference between 'discover' and 'discover1'! I No, neither discover1 nor discover 2 are kern

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-25 Thread Michael M.
Florian Kulzer wrote: Make sure you have the packages "discover1" (for 2.6 kernels) or "discover" (for 2.4 kernels) installed, as well as "xresprobe", "mdetect", "read-edid" and, if applicable, "laptop-detect". Then run (as root) dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and you should get a proper confi

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 16:58:14 +0800, Dr Bean wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > > Le dimanche 25 juin 2006 ? 09:28 +0800, Dr Bean a ?crit : > > > > > Also give some details about your system (video hardware). > > > > Where would I get that. dmesg says just: > > > Console

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-25 Thread Dr Bean
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le dimanche 25 juin 2006 ? 09:28 +0800, Dr Bean a ?crit : > > > Also give some details about your system (video hardware). > > Where would I get that. dmesg says just: > > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 > The sources of information for that would be: ..

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-24 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le dimanche 25 juin 2006 à 09:28 +0800, Dr Bean a écrit : > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > > Le jeudi 22 juin 2006 ? 20:03 +0800, Dr Bean a ?crit : > > > I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install > > > it? > > [...]

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-24 Thread Dr Bean
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le jeudi 22 juin 2006 ? 20:03 +0800, Dr Bean a ?crit : > > I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install > > it? > [...] > > I have now a perfectly good console-based linux system, but exec > > star

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 20:03:33 +0800, Dr Bean wrote: > I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install > it? > > Installing sid with installer-i386, I was given a choice about what > kind of setup I wanted, eg a personal workstation, an Internet > ser

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-22 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le jeudi 22 juin 2006 à 20:03 +0800, Dr Bean a écrit : > I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install > it? [...] > I have now a perfectly good console-based linux system, but exec > startx doesn't give me X Windows. But you do have startx? Do you get a &qu

X Windows not installed

2006-06-22 Thread Dr Bean
I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install it? Installing sid with installer-i386, I was given a choice about what kind of setup I wanted, eg a personal workstation, an Internet server, etc. With the cursor on the personal workstation, I hit Enter and was surprised b

Re: X-Windows Problems - Solved

2006-05-28 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:20:17AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:20:08 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:34:45PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > [...] > > > That all sounds like there are some configuration problems in your > system. May

Re: X-Windows Problems - Wacom

2006-05-26 Thread Thomas H. George
Tangled thread; one of yesterday's postings just showed up. A later posting reported editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf as per linuxwacom.sf.net manual. I now have the following situation: The stylus moves the cursor, the mouse does not. The mouse buttons and scroll wheel work. Tom George -- To UNS

Re: X-Windows Problems - Puzzled

2006-05-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:20:08 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:34:45PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: [...] > > I now have all the lines in sources.list commented out except those for > > testing. I ran "apt-get install -f" followed by "apt-get update" then > > "apt

Re: X-Windows Problems, xorgcfg error

2006-05-26 Thread Thomas H. George
The thread is tangled because some of my previous posting have not shown up as yet. Continuing to try to get the Wacom mouse to work, ran xorgcfg. The program runs but with output to stderror "Failed to initialize module list". strace xorgcfg shows it is looking in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers

Re: X-Windows Problems - Puzzled

2006-05-26 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:34:45PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:09:39PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 14:04:57 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 22, 2006

Re: X-Windows Problems - Progress

2006-05-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
free Best regards, Tom Florian's comments led me to recognize the link to ftp.nerim.net might be the problem. I commented out and was able to complete the upgrade though I still had to purge glibc-doc to resolve a conflict. After completing the upgrade I had no X-windows at al

Re: X-Windows Problems

2006-05-25 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:09:39PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 14:04:57 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 16:41:09 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > I am stumbling through

Re: X-Windows Problems - Progress

2006-05-25 Thread Thomas H. George
tp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > > Best regards, > > Tom Florian's comments led me to recognize the link to ftp.nerim.net might be the problem. I commented out and was able to complete the upgrade though I still had to purge glibc-doc to resolve a con

Re: X-Windows Problems

2006-05-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 14:04:57 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 16:41:09 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed > > > to get gdm to sta

Re: X-Windows Problems

2006-05-24 Thread s. keeling
Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:30:43AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed > > > > There are reasons why Sarge is called stable. Stay with > > Sarge/s

Re: X-Windows Problems

2006-05-23 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:30:43AM +, s. keeling wrote: > Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed > > There are reasons why Sarge is called stable. Stay with > Sarge/stable. Testing is meant for those who *know* Debia

Re: X-Windows Problems

2006-05-23 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 16:41:09 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed > > to get gdm to start but if I switch to a console I lose the window and > > must restart

Re: X-Windows Problems

2006-05-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 16:41:09 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed > to get gdm to start but if I switch to a console I lose the window and > must restart gdm. Equally frustrating, my Wacom tablet mouse is not > recognized t

Re: X-Windows Problems

2006-05-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
s. keeling wrote: > Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed > > > There are reasons why Sarge is called stable. Stay with > Sarge/stable. Testing is meant for those who *know* Debian well > enough to not stumble, not fo

Re: X-Windows Problems

2006-05-23 Thread s. keeling
Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed There are reasons why Sarge is called stable. Stay with Sarge/stable. Testing is meant for those who *know* Debian well enough to not stumble, not for those who want newer software.

X-Windows Problems

2006-05-22 Thread Thomas H. George
I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed to get gdm to start but if I switch to a console I lose the window and must restart gdm. Equally frustrating, my Wacom tablet mouse is not recognized though it worked perfectly in Sarge and the wacom module is installed.

Re: Problem setting the screen resolution with Gnome and X-Windows

2006-05-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 14:19:00 -0700, Philip Stephens wrote: > Hi, > I don't know who is going to see this. The Debian list isn't that > user-friendly (brace for incoming mortar). For instance, how do I know > if this user problem was responded to? The web archive at lists.debian.org has links

Re: Problem setting the screen resolution with Gnome and X-Windows

2006-05-16 Thread Philip Stephens
Hi, I don't know who is going to see this. The Debian list isn't that user-friendly (brace for incoming mortar). For instance, how do I know if this user problem was responded to? Anyway, I'm having the same issue with screen resolution as Scott Huey describes in message ID: http://lists.debian.

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-05-06 Thread Tyler Smith
Just as a follow-up, in case anyone else had the same problem: I installed gdm with aptitude, and that appears to work just fine. I still have no idea what's wrong with xdm, but for the moment it's not an issue. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-05-01 Thread Tyler Smith
Well, it is not really that big a problem. However, I *would* like to know why it doesn't work. The only feature I'm missing without xdm is a convenient button to click to shutdown my computer, as an alternative to "shutdown -h now". I know xdm doesn't have one built-in, but it wasn't too hard

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-05-01 Thread Kent West
Tyler Smith wrote: > No, that's what I did the first time. I tried /etc/init.d/xdm restart > both from within X, and when that failed to produce any messages, > after closing X. It didn't produce any error messages or anything else. > ** (rox:5499): WARNING **: mkdir(/home/tyler.choice): Permission

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-05-01 Thread Tyler Smith
No, that's what I did the first time. I tried /etc/init.d/xdm restart both from within X, and when that failed to produce any messages, after closing X. It didn't produce any error messages or anything else. .xsession-errors is 14000+ lines long. The entries from today and yesterday are pasted

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-05-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 18:34:20 -0400, Tyler Smith wrote: > Ok, I've fixed the resolution problem. Somewhere in my > upgrading/configuring I lost the 1280x1024 setting from my xorg.conf > file, which was easily fixed. Now I just need to know how to get my > graphical login back. There was obvi

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-05-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Apr 2006, Tyler Smith wrote: > Ok, I've fixed the resolution problem. Somewhere in my > upgrading/configuring I lost the 1280x1024 setting from my xorg.conf > file, which was easily fixed. Now I just need to know how to get my > graphical login back. > > Cheers, > > Tyler > I've always

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-04-30 Thread Tyler Smith
Ok, I've fixed the resolution problem. Somewhere in my upgrading/configuring I lost the 1280x1024 setting from my xorg.conf file, which was easily fixed. Now I just need to know how to get my graphical login back. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-04-30 Thread Tyler Smith
Thanks for your help. In response to your questions: I'm using xdm /etc/init.d/xdm restart didn't do anything - I entered it into a terminal after starting x, and another prompt appeared. No error messages or anything else. I tried again after closing X, both as me and as root, same result.

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-04-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
tor followed by > dexconf solved all my problems, so I tried that. Unfortunately, > xdebconfigurator crashed X-windows (ie the monitor went black, > displaying only the message that no signal was being received). So then > I dried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I bumbled my way through that

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-04-30 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday 30 April 2006 14:30, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Following a recent upgrade of my Etch box I have mucked up my X. I no > longer get the graphical log-on, but after logging in startx does bring > get me into my fluxbox desktop. Sorry that I can't help but I got exactly the same problem.

messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-04-30 Thread Tyler Smith
, xdebconfigurator crashed X-windows (ie the monitor went black, displaying only the message that no signal was being received). So then I dried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I bumbled my way through that, after which I couldn't get into X at all. I retried the xdebconfigurator/deconf, and this ti

Re: X Windows Fonts with Symbols? - Thanks

2006-03-30 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 09:12:42PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:50:10PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I would like to write some text which includes the symbols for Spades, > > Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs. I know that some years ago I had a word > > processor with fo

Re: X Windows Fonts with Symbols?

2006-03-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:50:10PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I would like to write some text which includes the symbols for Spades, > Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs. I know that some years ago I had a word > processor with fonts which included these symbols but now I can't find > any. I use

X Windows Fonts with Symbols?

2006-03-28 Thread Thomas H. George
I would like to write some text which includes the symbols for Spades, Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs. I know that some years ago I had a word processor with fonts which included these symbols but now I can't find any. I used xfontsel to examine the symbol and dingbats fonts with no success. Thi

Re: Does NVIDIA 128 MB RAM (Pine) AGP Card support 1280x1024 and play mpeg videos in X windows?

2006-01-21 Thread Rishi
> You really need to tell us a little more about your system, I assume you have > a SIS chipset and what to know if you can switch graphics cards to get a > higher resolution. > > A lot of that depends on the monitor, lcd, or display you are using. Some > displays cannot support that resolution. S

Re: Does NVIDIA 128 MB RAM (Pine) AGP Card support 1280x1024 and play mpeg videos in X windows?

2006-01-18 Thread Russell Call
>Rishi > But I'm unable to play mpeg videos in 1280x1027 resolution. >So therefore I wanted to know if I buy this video card: Pine, 128 MB >NVIDIA AGP Card, FX model, that it would work on my Debian Sarge >system - meaning get high resolution and play mpeg videos? You really need to tell us a li

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