nedit problem

2011-02-05 Thread Fred Boatwright
Hello, After updating all ports on 8.1-RELEASE, nedit has a problem. The right mouse button works ok in the toolbar but if it is pressed in the text area, for example to copy a block of text, the cursor changes shape and the X session becomes completely locked up. I have to stop X and restart

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-22 Thread Fred Boatwright
Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 07:41:49PM -0700, Fred Boatwright wrote: Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Warren Block wrote: Log file is at http://wonkity.com/~wblock/tmp/Xorg.0.log First notes: You're running the old version of X, 1.6.1

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-22 Thread Fred Boatwright
Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Sunday 22 August 2010 06:22:48 Fred Boatwright wrote: Eitan Adler wrote: The actual problem I am having is that startx produces only a completely black screen.  Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro  produces the expected grid and mouse pointer.  A .xinitrc file

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-22 Thread Fred Boatwright
Jerry wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:22:40 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com articulated: Those would be the nVidia binary drivers. There's also x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv. I avoid nVidia cards, so someone else will have to comment on those. I came to this party late, so

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-22 Thread Fred Boatwright
Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 07:19:36PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Sunday 22 August 2010 06:22:48 Fred Boatwright wrote: The .xinitrc file: xrdb xsetroot -solid gray xterm -geometry +0-100 xconsole -geometry -0+0 -fn 5x7 #exec olvwm #complained

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Fred Boatwright
Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Fred Boatwright wrote: I am having trouble setting up X similar to a previous posting. I have a new 8.0 installation. Using the Handbook chapter suggested below I waas able to generate and edit an xorg.conf file. It tests ok. I generated

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Fred Boatwright
Hi Matthew, The .xinitrc file starts fvwm. I have not found any error message that would indicate fvwm is not running. One of the common failure modes you mention is probably what I have! Best regards, Fred Matthew Seaman wrote: On 21/08/2010 18:13:09, Fred Boatwright wrote: The screen

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Fred Boatwright
Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Fred Boatwright wrote: .xinitrc xrdb xsetroot -solid gray xterm -geometry +0-100 xconsole -geometry -0+0 -fn 5x7 #exec olvwm #complained about a missing font exec fvwm Before trying a different window manager, try good old twm

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Fred Boatwright
Glen Barber wrote: On 8/21/10 7:12 PM, Warren Block wrote: I changed the driver from vesa to nVidia but the nVidia driver could not be found and X exited. After restoring vesa I ran the test on xorg.conf -retro and it worked ok. However, startx still produced only a black screen.

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Fred Boatwright
Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Warren Block wrote: Log file is at http://wonkity.com/~wblock/tmp/Xorg.0.log First notes: You're running the old version of X, 1.6.1. Something odd is going on with some of the fonts. I installed ports/x11/xorg-minimal as the full Monty

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Fred Boatwright
Eitan Adler wrote: Something odd is going on with some of the fonts. I installed ports/x11/xorg-minimal as the full Monty appeared to be a huge amount of software that will never get used. Â I don't want all the stuff for gnome and kde as I will never use them. It appeared to me

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Fred Boatwright
Eitan Adler wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Fred Boatwright f...@blakemfg.com wrote: Eitan Adler wrote: Something odd is going on with some of the fonts. I installed ports/x11/xorg-minimal as the full Monty appeared to be a huge amount of software that will never get

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-20 Thread Fred Boatwright
Hello, I am having trouble setting up X similar to a previous posting. I have a new 8.0 installation. Using the Handbook chapter suggested below I waas able to generate and edit an xorg.conf file. It tests ok. I generated a .xinitrc file based on an example in the Handbook. When a user runs

X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
Hello, Where would I find startx? I assume it is part one of the ports under X11 but I don't want to install all of them to find it. Also, is p5-Tk the same as Perl/Tk? Best regards, Fred ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
corresponding to Tix's Tcl code is not fully implemented. This version (Tk804.025) is only likely to work with perl5.8+. Tim Kellers On 08/12/10 12:02, Fred Boatwright wrote: Hello, Where would I find startx? I assume it is part one of the ports under X11 but I don't want to install all

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
to: /usr/ports/x11/xorg and make config-recursive (If you add any options, run make config-recursive a second time after the shell prompt returns) and then make install clean HTH Tim Kellers On 08/12/10 15:40, Fred Boatwright wrote: Hi Oliver and Tim, I installed xinit

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
Samuel Martín Moro wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Fred Boatwright f...@blakemfg.com wrote: pkg_info | grep xinit doesn't return anything then, you doesn't have installed xinit, and startx can't be here pkg_add -rv xinit and then, if it doesn't fail, try again: rehash which

Re: firefox install problem

2010-08-10 Thread Fred Boatwright
difficult to deal with manually. Best regards, Fred Steven Susbauer wrote: On 08/09/10 22:17, Fred Boatwright wrote: Hello, I have installed FreeBSD-8.0 from the CD and have it running ok. I have installed several packages including thunderbird using pkg_add -r package_name. When I try

firefox install problem

2010-08-09 Thread Fred Boatwright
Hello, I have installed FreeBSD-8.0 from the CD and have it running ok. I have installed several packages including thunderbird using pkg_add -r package_name. When I try to install firefox I get a file unavailable error. The web site shows firefox-3.6.8,1 is available (i386). What can I do to