Re: did any one know sis305 agp is what chipset in xfree86 4?

2002-12-12 Thread Mark Janssen
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 06:51, eric lin wrote: > Dear Linuxer: > > did any one know sis305 agp is what chipset in xfree86 4? Try the drivers for the sis300 series from Thomas Winischhofer located at: www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml You need to patch your kernel and overwrite

Re: did any one know sis305 agp is what chipset in xfree86 4?

2002-12-12 Thread nate
eric lin said: > Dear Linuxer: > > did any one know sis305 agp is what chipset in xfree86 4? http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/Status30.html#30 the 300 is supported, but it says there are some problems with it, the 305 is probably considered similar enough to the 300 to run with that drive

did any one know sis305 agp is what chipset in xfree86 4?

2002-12-12 Thread eric lin
Dear Linuxer: did any one know sis305 agp is what chipset in xfree86 4? -- Sincere Eric www.linuxspice.com linux pc for sale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 4

2001-11-12 Thread csj
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 05:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, does anyone know where I can get XF86 version 4 servers for > Debian? Thanks. apt-get install xserver-xfree86 -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

XFree86 4

2001-11-12 Thread JakeCatfox
Hi, does anyone know where I can get XF86 version 4 servers for Debian? Thanks. -- Deven Gallo

XFree86-4: Could not init font path element unix/:7100

2001-11-12 Thread Marcel Figuerola Estrada
1/Xsession I've put the required parameters to launch gnome, but it doesn't work :( In the error log I can see the message: Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list Anybody able to help, please I run XFree86-4 in Woody Marcel

Re: XFree86-4: No screens found (solution) & another X question

2001-11-08 Thread Horacio de Oro
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 15:49:27 +0100 "Marcel Figuerola Estrada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you should make a .xinitrc file (in your home directory) with the line: gnome-session then execute xinit (and xinit will execute all the commands in .xinitrc). horacio > At last it turned out that deactivati

Re: XFree86-4: No screens found (solution) & another X question

2001-11-08 Thread Marcel Figuerola Estrada
how can I make gnome start when I run X? Thank you Note I run XF86 4.1 on Woody Best wishes, Marcel - Original Message - From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 2:04 AM Subject: Re: XFree86-4: No screens found &

Re: XFree86-4: No screens found

2001-11-07 Thread Jeff
Marcel Figuerola Estrada, 2001-Nov-08 01:48 +0100: > I get a fatal error when trying to start x: no screens found. Another message > says screen(s) found, but none have a usual configuration. > > It's very strange because I specified some screed should be good. I have a > Geforce MX2 Card. I att

XFree86-4: No screens found

2001-11-07 Thread Marcel Figuerola Estrada
I get a fatal error when trying to start x: no screens found. Another message says screen(s) found, but none have a usual configuration. It's very strange because I specified some screed should be good. I have a Geforce MX2 Card. I attach the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and the last few lines of the

Re: Font in XFree86-4.x.x

2001-10-31 Thread Harald Iwe
"Daniel T. Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Check the resolutions output for your screen # via xdpyinfo (i.e. mine's > 116x117 dots per inch at 1600x1200 on an 18" viewable screen). You may > need to pass in the option to ignore EDID values in your XF86Config-4. > > --- > Dan Chen

Re: Font in XFree86-4.x.x

2001-10-28 Thread Daniel T. Chen
Check the resolutions output for your screen # via xdpyinfo (i.e. mine's 116x117 dots per inch at 1600x1200 on an 18" viewable screen). You may need to pass in the option to ignore EDID values in your XF86Config-4. --- Dan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubk

Font in XFree86-4.x.x

2001-10-28 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Sorry if this question is too basic :-); Running debian testing with XFree86-4.1.0 , The font in the menu of any application is too big, I have edited the file /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc to set 75 dpi instead of 100 but it doens'nt help. Any idea how to fix that ? Thanks. = S.KIEU ht

xfree86 4.x & woody

2001-10-24 Thread Stefano
Hi everybody. I've upgraded my debian potato to woody. BUT many things went wrong. The last one, meaning the not already solved one, is that the server X gives me this message: Couldn't load XKB keymap falling back to pre-XKB keymap and using setxkeymap couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES p

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 28 2001, Aaron Traas wrote: > Aren't True Type Fonts Antialiasable? If so, the msttcorefonts > package will (upon installation) log on to MS's web site and > download all of the free (as in beer) "Microsoft Core Fonts" > including Arial, Comic Sans, Times New Roman, Tahoma (my personal > fav

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 28 2001, William Leese wrote: > Oddly enough, at home I have debian unstable running on a machine > with an Ati Rage Pro, which ofcourse is Mach64 based, _with_ the > RENDER extension. Although before XFree86 4.1 there didn't seem to > be support for it (atleast, i never got it work), but n

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 27 2001, Slaven Peles wrote: > On Monday 27 August 2001 15:23, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Is it not possible to implement the RENDER extension with this > > hardware or isn't there demand for it? I'd surely love to get > > my notebook working with one of these. > > Nowhere at XFr

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread Aaron Traas
William Leese wrote: > > > Oddly enough, at home I have debian unstable running on a machine with an > Ati Rage Pro, which ofcourse is Mach64 based, _with_ the RENDER extension. > Although before XFree86 4.1 there didn't seem to be support for it (atleast, > i never got it work), but now RENDER s

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread Slaven Peles
On August 28, 2001 02:16 am, William Leese wrote: > > > > Nowhere at XFree86 web site is explicitely said that there is > > no DRI support > > or render extension for Mach64 based video cards, but > > apparently they are not > > supported. It seems that nobody is willing to make a driver > > for t

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread David Nusinow
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 12:16 am, William Leese wrote: > Not that I use it though... because when i turn on anitaliasing in KDE only > the ugliest fonts seem to be available to all X applications. I'd rather > have everything in a good font (lucida, helvetica) than have to look at an > ugly one t

RE: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread William Leese
> -Original Message- > From: Slaven Peles > Sent: dinsdag 28 augustus 2001 6:50 > To: Rogério Brito; debian > Subject: Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension... > > > On Monday 27 August 2001 15:23, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Aug 27 2001, Slaven Peles wrote

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-27 Thread Slaven Peles
On Monday 27 August 2001 15:23, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Aug 27 2001, Slaven Peles wrote: > > Make sure what chipset your video card use. Some of Rage Mobility > > cards use Mach64 in which case there is no help; there is no render > > support for these. > > Uh, oh! > > I guess that m

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 27 2001, Slaven Peles wrote: > Make sure what chipset your video card use. Some of Rage Mobility > cards use Mach64 in which case there is no help; there is no render > support for these. Uh, oh! I guess that mine is one of those. Mine is an ATI Rage Mobility LT, wi

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-27 Thread Slaven Peles
On Sunday 26 August 2001 21:38, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Aug 25 2001, Aaron Traas wrote: > > I'm running Woody with Xfree86 4, and am wondering what I have to do > > to get the RENDER extension to work, and thus get KDE to anti-alias > > fonts. Can someone point

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-26 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 25 2001, Aaron Traas wrote: > I'm running Woody with Xfree86 4, and am wondering what I have to do > to get the RENDER extension to work, and thus get KDE to anti-alias > fonts. Can someone point me in the right direction? > > BTW: My graphics adapter is an ATI Rage M

XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-25 Thread Aaron Traas
I'm running Woody with Xfree86 4, and am wondering what I have to do to get the RENDER extension to work, and thus get KDE to anti-alias fonts. Can someone point me in the right direction? BTW: My graphics adapter is an ATI Rage Mobility Pro, and the system is a Dell Inspiron 7500. --Aaron

Re: Stable and XFree86 4.x

2001-08-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:27:58PM +0200, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: :see here: : :http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ : :or, if you're feeling adventurous: : :http://cpbotha.net/building_xfree86_4.1.0_debs_on_potato.HOWTO Excellent, Thanks. -Jon

Re: Stable and XFree86 4.x

2001-08-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:16:33AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: :When I did this, I went to ftp.xfree86.org and found a tarball :containing just the server binary and things you absolutely needed to :run the X server, and installed this under /usr/local. Worked like a :charm. (Though at this point,

Re: Stable and XFree86 4.x

2001-08-24 Thread David Z Maze
have GForce2 cards (AFAIK this requires XFree86 4.x), what's the JDP> best way tho keep these machines running stable but also grabbing JDP> XFree86 4.x? I seem to recall someone building stable .deb's for this JDP> a long time ago, but can't seem to find where they are. When

Re: Stable and XFree86 4.x

2001-08-24 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
They > all have GForce2 cards (AFAIK this requires XFree86 4.x), what's the > best way tho keep these machines running stable but also grabbing > XFree86 4.x? I seem to recall someone building stable .deb's for this > a long time ago, but can't seem to find where they

Stable and XFree86 4.x

2001-08-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I know this has come up before, but my searching skills aren't up to the task of finding it in the archives apparently... I have about 20 workstations on the way for incoming students and They all have GForce2 cards (AFAIK this requires XFree86 4.x), what's the best way tho

Re: Questions about XFree86 4.x

2001-08-03 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thursday August 02 2001 11:42, Aaron Traas wrote: [snip] > > 4) in my /etc/profile, I add the line: > alias ls='ls --color -F' > This works very nicely at the console, but for some reason, when I'm in > X, this doesn't work in Konsole or Xterm. I have to do an: > exec bash --login >

Re: Questions about XFree86 4.x

2001-08-03 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:42:48AM -0400, Aaron Traas wrote: > I'm running Woody and Xfree86 4.03 on a couple systems, and have a > couple minor problems. Some questions on how to do a few things: > > 1) I installed a bunch of font packages in Woody, but X does not load > them by default. I found

Questions about XFree86 4.x

2001-08-02 Thread Aaron Traas
I'm running Woody and Xfree86 4.03 on a couple systems, and have a couple minor problems. Some questions on how to do a few things: 1) I installed a bunch of font packages in Woody, but X does not load them by default. I found them in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, and proceeded to add them via 'xset f

Re: help getting xfree86 4 working on an ATI Rage lt pro

2001-07-25 Thread dman
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:42:16PM +1000, Daryl Dusheiko wrote: | Hi, | | I have been trying to get X working using Xfree86 | version 4.0.3-4. I had it working successfully with | version 3.3.6. See which settings are different from your 3.3.6 config and merge the two. I had the same card workin

Re: help getting xfree86 4 working on an ATI Rage lt pro

2001-07-25 Thread Heather
aded my distribution to the > "testing" variety. This is where everything came > crashing down. > > When I run startx, the screen goes blank and then > comes back with an error message - saying there are no > valid screens. > > I used dexconf to create my XFree86-4 file

Re: help getting xfree86 4 working on an ATI Rage lt pro

2001-07-25 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: help getting xfree86 4 working on an ATI Rage lt pro > Date: Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:42:16PM +1000 > >In reply to:Daryl Dusheiko > >Quoting Daryl Dusheiko([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Hi, >> >> I

Re: help getting xfree86 4 working on an ATI Rage lt pro

2001-07-25 Thread David Smith
Thus spake Daryl Dusheiko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > When I run startx, the screen goes blank and then > comes back with an error message - saying there are no > valid screens. > > I used dexconf to create my XFree86-4 file. > > Can anyone please help. I've included

Re: help getting xfree86 4 working on an ATI Rage lt pro

2001-07-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: help getting xfree86 4 working on an ATI Rage lt pro Date: Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:42:16PM +1000 In reply to:Daryl Dusheiko Quoting Daryl Dusheiko([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > I have been trying to get X working using Xfree86 > version 4.0.3-4. I ha

help getting xfree86 4 working on an ATI Rage lt pro

2001-07-25 Thread Daryl Dusheiko
y. This is where everything came crashing down. When I run startx, the screen goes blank and then comes back with an error message - saying there are no valid screens. I used dexconf to create my XFree86-4 file. Can anyone please help. I've included my XFree86-4 and error log files. I hav

Re: XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Paul Tansom
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Richard Black wrote: > Did you get the correct driver from: > > http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html > > I'm not sure that it is in the main stream of 4.x yet--the above site has > details > on that though > No, but I've found that the savag_drv.o file is already availabl

Re: XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Richard Black
Did you get the correct driver from: http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html I'm not sure that it is in the main stream of 4.x yet--the above site has details on that though cheers Richard Paul Tansom wrote: > I've just pulled XFree86 4 from testing as part of another packa

Re: XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Pete Harlan
> means everything works. To make it your default: > ln -s /etc/X11/X /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 That should read: ln -s /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X --Pete

Re: XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Sebastiaan
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Paul Tansom wrote: > I've just pulled XFree86 4 from testing as part of another package update and > as far as I can work out it no longer includes the svga server. Am I missing > something? I have a Savage 4 chipset (which quotes a null driver), and all &

XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Paul Tansom
I've just pulled XFree86 4 from testing as part of another package update and as far as I can work out it no longer includes the svga server. Am I missing something? I have a Savage 4 chipset (which quotes a null driver), and all was working fine under the previous version (so I'm

Re: error trying to use XFree86 4.x.x with USB Microsoft Intellimouse....

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:42:16AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > Module Size Used by > usbmouse1648 0 (unused) > input 2752 0 [usbmouse] > usb-uhci 17984 0 (unused) > usbcore44560 1 [usbmouse usb-uhci] > 3c

Re: error trying to use XFree86 4.x.x with USB Microsoft Intellimouse....

2001-07-04 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:42:16AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > Ok, Followed the instructions at www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/ Hiya There Walter, I'll try and help you out here. I use /dev/usbmouse, but /dev/input/mice applies to the device file in the same way. I'll get to it in

error trying to use XFree86 4.x.x with USB Microsoft Intellimouse....

2001-07-04 Thread Walter Tautz
Ok, Followed the instructions at www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/ but X gives error: (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device. (EE) USB Mice: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "USB Mice" The device does exist! ls -

Re: Xfree86-4 and large default fonts

2001-06-18 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:58:30PM -0500, John Patton wrote: > I've recently upgraded from potato to testing, including the > switch to Xfree86 version 4. Everything is great except that > the default font size for many applications (like netscape > and ddd) is now rather huge. I use 800 x 600 scre

Xfree86-4 and large default fonts

2001-06-18 Thread John Patton
I've recently upgraded from potato to testing, including the switch to Xfree86 version 4. Everything is great except that the default font size for many applications (like netscape and ddd) is now rather huge. I use 800 x 600 screen size, and specify 75 dpi in my xservers file (the actual dpi is mo

TrueType fonts with XFree86 4 in Debian? Here's how...

2001-06-18 Thread Paul D. Smith
In case anyone's interested, I installed another installment of instructions for getting TrueType fonts working in Debian. This version describes how to do it with XFree86 4. It uses the Debian packages I discovered (or which were added) since my last installment, which did the same for XF

Re: How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:48:06PM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: | Balbir Thomas writes: | > > > You probably still have the X link pointing to your old X server. | > > > Change it to point to your new X server and you'll be good to go. Not | > > > too sure where the link is--probably somewhere in

Re: How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Balbir Thomas writes: > > > You probably still have the X link pointing to your old X server. > > > Change it to point to your new X server and you'll be good to go. Not > > > too sure where the link is--probably somewhere in /usr/X11R6/bin. You > > > want to move the link to point to ./XFr

Re: How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread Balbir Thomas
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:57:36PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:27:44AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: > > Balbir Thomas writes: > > > I now find that xserver-xfree86 and xfree86-common are upgraded . I > > > even ran xf86cfg . But when I try to startx it still runs > > >

Re: How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread Andrew Agno
gt; want to move the link to point to ./XFree86 instead of, for example, > > XF86_SVGA. > > But /usr/X11R6/bin/X is not a link ?? Then it should be :) It's also kind of odd that it isn't, actually, but maybe somebody else can tell you why. What do you have when you do

Re: How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread Balbir Thomas
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:27:44AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: > Balbir Thomas writes: > > I now find that xserver-xfree86 and xfree86-common are upgraded . I > > even ran xf86cfg . But when I try to startx it still runs > > 3.3.6. How do I change to 4 ? > > You probably still have the X link poi

RE:How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread Andrew Agno
Balbir Thomas writes: > I now find that xserver-xfree86 and xfree86-common are upgraded . I > even ran xf86cfg . But when I try to startx it still runs > 3.3.6. How do I change to 4 ? You probably still have the X link pointing to your old X server. Change it to point to your new X server and y

How to upgrade to XFree86 4 on unstable ?

2001-06-15 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, I just managed to upgrade my potato box to unstable (with kernel 2.4.5) . I used the following source list : deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-freedeb http://security.debian.org stab

Trouble with wacom and xfree86-4

2001-04-08 Thread Thomas Wegner
Hi! I wanted to install my new wacom graphire digitizer on xfree86 4.0.2 and potato. I did all that was described in Howto but at least X crashes with signal 11. Can anyone give me some advice? I added my XF86Config-4 and the error log XFree86.2.log. The tablet seems to be recognized by system. T

Re: xfree86 4.x and unstable

2001-04-06 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
JACKSON, DEAN posts: > does anyone know of a good place to start for newbie > documentation on setting up the 4.x Xserver? The debian-user mailing list archive at http://www.debian.org/ has a good search interface. Use it and dig... Please do try http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/ and

xfree86 4.x and unstable

2001-04-06 Thread JACKSON, DEAN
I have had to use unstable distribution as a couple of programs I need to run require lots of versions only available in unstable. now I have upgraded and all seems okay apart from my Xserver (took several apt-get update/upgrades to get all dependencies working correctly), but X doesn't work I run

Re: XFree86 4 Problem!

2001-03-30 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I would open up the XF86Config-4 file and remove the line that says unix/:7100. Also, in the 2.4.x kernels, their is voodoo support you will need to add (I like to have it built in to the kernel, but you could compile it as a module). It's in 'Character Devices'->'Direct Rendering Manager (

XFree86 4 Problem!

2001-03-30 Thread Dale Morris
I would check the list archives, but I don't have X or Netscape to do that with :( I have just upgraded to woody with dist-upgrade and when I try to connect to Xwindows using startx I get the following error message: FontTransSocketUnixConnect: Can't Connect: errno =2 Could not init font path ele

Re: GLX on NVidia TNT card using XFree86 4?

2001-03-28 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not sure Nvidia's drivers work at 24bpp, so you might want to try > running at 16bpp. Also, you did remember to change the driver in your > XF86Config (or XF86Config-4 if that file exists on your system) file to be > "nvidia" rather than "nv", rig

Re: GLX on NVidia TNT card using XFree86 4?

2001-03-26 Thread debuser
, 26 Mar 2001, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > I've got a Diamond Viper770 video card, which has a Nvidia TNT chip on it. > Using the standard XFree86 4 nv driver, 3D performance is, well, poor. So > I decided to install the driver from NVidia. I downloaded and installed > the nvidia-glx-sr

GLX on NVidia TNT card using XFree86 4?

2001-03-26 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
I've got a Diamond Viper770 video card, which has a Nvidia TNT chip on it. Using the standard XFree86 4 nv driver, 3D performance is, well, poor. So I decided to install the driver from NVidia. I downloaded and installed the nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src packages. With those, I buil

Upgrading potato to XFree86 4.x

2001-03-22 Thread Roy G. Culley
Hi, Sorry if this is common knowledge but I'm new to the Debian world. I would like to upgrade to XFree86 4.x and am not sure how to go about it without screwing things up. I've downloaded the packages from http://people.debian.org/~branden/ but do I just use dpkg to install them or mus

Re: Do I still need xfst with XFree86 4?

2001-03-22 Thread kmself
on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:55:06PM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Do I still need the TrueType Font server xfst, with XFree86 4? No. Particularly not if your TT fonts are working without them. You *can* use an external font server (I think), but certainly don't *

Do I still need xfst with XFree86 4?

2001-03-21 Thread Stan Brown
Do I still need the TrueType Font server xfst, with XFree86 4? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit

Xfree86 4, and video timings.

2001-03-18 Thread Stan Brown
I need to adjust the video timings to better match my monitor. I am runing Xfree86 4, and I can't seem to find the mode line defs anythwere in /etc/X11. Where are these stored, please? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Wi

Re: specifying depth of 16 & above in xfree86-4

2001-03-02 Thread Ilya Martynov
> "js" == john smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: js> I did not set the horizontal & vertical refresh rates js> myself...xf86cfg did that for me automatically.. It is better to set it manually. Values from config program are usually too pessimistic. Look at manual for your tube. There

Re: specifying depth of 16 & above in xfree86-4

2001-03-02 Thread Rossen Naydenov
Well I have the same card you can download the latest drivers from nvidia.com and ran xf86cfg -textmode (it crashes if not in textmode) and then set your own parameters for the monitor and the card I think that X does not support 24 bpp for nvidia so you should set the default color to be 16bpp

Re: specifying depth of 16 & above in xfree86-4

2001-03-01 Thread john smith
I did not set the horizontal & vertical refresh rates myself...xf86cfg did that for me automatically.. > "js" == john smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: js> Hi, js> I have an riva tnt graphics card with a nec multi-sync monitor capable js> of resolutions of up to 1024x768 @

apt-getting xfree86 4 under potato

2001-02-28 Thread Renai
hi, quick question - how do I apt-get install xfree86 4.02 under potato? ie which lines do I add to /etc/apt/sources.list? thanks, Renai

Re: specifying depth of 16 & above in xfree86-4

2001-02-27 Thread Ilya Martynov
> "js" == john smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: js> Hi, js> I have an riva tnt graphics card with a nec multi-sync monitor capable js> of resolutions of up to 1024x768 @ 87hz interlaced but I can't seem to js> make XFree work above the color depth of 8??? I'd like to be able t

specifying depth of 16 & above in xfree86-4

2001-02-27 Thread john smith
Hi, I have an riva tnt graphics card with a nec multi-sync monitor capable of resolutions of up to 1024x768 @ 87hz interlaced but I can't seem to make XFree work above the color depth of 8??? I'd like to be able to run at least at 16 bpp or possibly 24 but I can't get past 8!!! whenever I try

Re: xfree86-4 depth question (s3virge)

2001-02-04 Thread Jonathan Chang
Have you tried 15 bits yet? This setting gives me acceptable performance. -- Chia-Sheng Chang (Jonathan Chang) Institute of Communications Engineering College of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan 10617, R.O.C. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xfree86-4 conflicts (ATI Mach64 GX)

2001-02-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
I have been having problem upgrading to XFREE86-4. I use ATI Mach64 GX(PCI) on my system. X fail to start anything beyond 15bpp. X starts below 8bpp but screen has very noisy color assignment (looks like color assignment table is corrupted.) I can see icons though. XFree86.0.log has

Re: xfree86-4 depth question (s3virge)

2001-02-03 Thread wen
alephtnull> debian running unstable, xfree86 version 4, s3virge chipset.. the FAQ in alephtnull> xfree86 docs say that my chipset (s3virge) is fully supported in xfree86-4 in alephtnull> color depths of 1,4,5,8,16,24. I am currently running at 8 bit mode. I want to alephtnull> run

xfree86-4 depth question (s3virge)

2001-02-03 Thread alephtnull
My system configuration: debian running unstable, xfree86 version 4, s3virge chipset.. the FAQ in xfree86 docs say that my chipset (s3virge) is fully supported in xfree86-4 in color depths of 1,4,5,8,16,24. I am currently running at 8 bit mode. I want to run at 16 or 24 bit but when I do that my

Re: xfree86 4.x, sony vaio c1xd, neomagic chip

2000-11-21 Thread Joey Hess
Here is a mostly working config file for the sony vaio picturebook. I say mostly because there is a display artifact I see when I start wmaker. Mark Volkevitch thinks it is a bug in the acceleration. -- see shy jo # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexter, the # Debia

Re: xfree86 4.x, sony vaio c1xd, neomagic chip

2000-11-20 Thread Joey Hess
Anders Lennartsson wrote: > I have a Sony C1xD (really neat subnotebook) with a 1024x480 display. > After upgrading from Xfree86 3.3.6 to 4.0.1 I have had problems with the > display size > settings in XF86Config-4. Me too. > Even if I only have one Mode (1024x480) specified, the Neomagic chipse

xfree86 4.x, sony vaio c1xd, neomagic chip

2000-11-20 Thread Anders Lennartsson
I have a Sony C1xD (really neat subnotebook) with a 1024x480 display. After upgrading from Xfree86 3.3.6 to 4.0.1 I have had problems with the display size settings in XF86Config-4. Even if I only have one Mode (1024x480) specified, the Neomagic chipset reports that the screen is a 1024x768 and u

xfree86 4

2000-11-18 Thread Manuel Hendel
I've updated to xfree4. Everything is okay, exept the keyboard, this is in english, I need it in german. Where can I do these changes. I tried it wiht xf86cfg, but this didn't run proper. Can anyone help me to get this fixed? Thanks, Manuel

Re: How stable are the XFree86 4 packages?

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Taylor
Date sent: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 13:54:02 -0500 From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: How stable are the XFree86 4 packages? Send reply to: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Nov 06

Re: How stable are the XFree86 4 packages?

2000-11-06 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:47:21AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, I know that they're not really reccomended for the average user > yet, but I wanna try them out so bad! :-) > > I've got a K6-500, 64Mb ram, Voodoo 3 w/16Mb, and I'm running a > mostly potato system. What I would like to kn

Re: How stable are the XFree86 4 packages?

2000-11-05 Thread Sean
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:47:21AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, I know that they're not really reccomended for the average user > yet, but I wanna try them out so bad! :-) LOL > I've got a K6-500, 64Mb ram, Voodoo 3 w/16Mb, and I'm running a > mostly potato system. What I would like t

How stable are the XFree86 4 packages?

2000-11-05 Thread soluzar75
OK, I know that they're not really reccomended for the average user yet, but I wanna try them out so bad! :-) I've got a K6-500, 64Mb ram, Voodoo 3 w/16Mb, and I'm running a mostly potato system. What I would like to know is: Would I be better off trying to install the whole of woody, or buildi

upgraded to Xfree86 4, now things are weird

2000-11-03 Thread Joel Dinel
I get this after having upgraded to Xfree86 4.something .. *** None of the configured devices were detected.*** Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages X connection to :0.0

Re: truetype fonts and xfree86 4

2000-06-30 Thread kmself
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:32:12PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: > i installed the pre-compiled xfree86 4 binaries from ftp.xfree86.org on > a woody system, and have a > >Load "freetype" > > line in my /etc/X11/XF86Setup. it all works perfectly except xlsfonts &

truetype fonts and xfree86 4

2000-06-29 Thread Vincent Murphy
i installed the pre-compiled xfree86 4 binaries from ftp.xfree86.org on a woody system, and have a Load "freetype" line in my /etc/X11/XF86Setup. it all works perfectly except xlsfonts doesn't load Truetype fonts, and so i can't use them in gimp/netscape etc either.

Re: XFree86 4

2000-04-27 Thread Felix Natter
Paul Kallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -- > -- > I just saw the article on Slashdot about nvidia's beta drivers. Unfortunately, > they are for XF4. Are there any experimental debs anywhere? I certainly would > LOVE to have my TNT2 Ultra actually WORK. look a

Re: XFree86 4

2000-04-25 Thread Brian J. Stults
"Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > Diff between woody and potato? Anything major? Summary? > I think they're virtually the same right now. There have been a few minor upgrades lately to packages in woody that are probably not in potato, but nothing major. It's very unlikely that there would be an

Re: XFree86 4

2000-04-25 Thread Robert L. Harris
Diff between woody and potato? Anything major? Summary? Thus spake Brian J. Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Paul Kallstrom wrote: > > > > -- > > -- > > I just saw the article on Slashdot about nvidia's beta drivers. > > Unfortunately, > > they are for XF4. A

Re: XFree86 4

2000-04-25 Thread Brian J. Stults
Paul Kallstrom wrote: > > -- > -- > I just saw the article on Slashdot about nvidia's beta drivers. Unfortunately, > they are for XF4. Are there any experimental debs anywhere? I certainly would > LOVE to have my TNT2 Ultra actually WORK. > I don't know if there a

XFree86 4

2000-04-25 Thread Paul Kallstrom
-- -- I just saw the article on Slashdot about nvidia's beta drivers. Unfortunately, they are for XF4. Are there any experimental debs anywhere? I certainly would LOVE to have my TNT2 Ultra actually WORK. Paul E-Mail: Paul Kallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D