Re: [newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document

2005-04-09 Thread mike
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 12:30, mike wrote: Ahh... thanks Steven. Never happened to me before at least since I been using Linux. I guess I thought I was safer than I really was. Not sure how to turn that off in mozilla will look around. Again thanks, Mike Not quite

[newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document

2005-04-05 Thread mike
I know this is actually a no...no... but sometimes I get these emails meant for a windows box with attachments like joker.exe or whatever. Anyways I dont open the attachments, but I view the message source just to see what it looks like. I know :-| killed the cat. I did not ever have a

Re: [newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document

2005-04-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 10:30, mike wrote: I know this is actually a no...no... but sometimes I get these emails meant for a windows box with attachments like joker.exe or whatever. Anyways I dont open the attachments, but I view the message source just to see what it looks like. I know :-|

Re: [newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document

2005-04-05 Thread mike
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 10:30, mike wrote: snip I'm scrolling it in mozilla browser and it kills X again. What is happening? is viewing the text document in browser executing some kind of java exploit? Should I report this to Source forge? Or am I compromized, I ran

Re: [newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document

2005-04-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 12:30, mike wrote: Ahh... thanks Steven. Never happened to me before at least since I been using Linux. I guess I thought I was safer than I really was. Not sure how to turn that off in mozilla will look around. Again thanks, Mike Not quite sure in Mozilla Mail

[newbie] X Compile Error

2005-03-13 Thread JRH
Hi All, I have been a way from Linux for a while, owing to too much other stuff happening, and have forgotten a few things :-( I'm trying to compile something, and I keep getting an error about X includes, a la: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your

Re: [newbie] X Compile Error

2005-03-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
JRH wrote: Hi All, I have been a way from Linux for a while, owing to too much other stuff happening, and have forgotten a few things :-( I'm trying to compile something, and I keep getting an error about X includes, a la: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check

Re: [newbie] X Compile Error

2005-03-13 Thread JRH
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JRH wrote: Hi All, I have been a way from Linux for a while, owing to too much other stuff happening, and have forgotten a few things :-( I'm trying to compile something, and I keep getting an error about X includes, a la: checking for X... configure: error: Can't

Re: [newbie] X Compile Error

2005-03-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 01:31, JRH wrote: Hi All, I have been a way from Linux for a while, owing to too much other stuff happening, and have forgotten a few things :-( I'm trying to compile something, and I keep getting an error about X includes, a la: checking for X... configure:

[newbie] X Update

2005-02-28 Thread Mohammed Badran
hello i have downloaded the X11R6.8 from www.x.org and need to know how to update the current version, i am using mdk 10.1 off and my X version is 6.7 i have tryed to do usual source installation './configure make World make install' and i had two server one over the other and got problems in

[newbie] X Server Wont Start....

2004-12-04 Thread J
Hi All, Had a power failure, and now this: execve failed for /etc/X11/x (errno2) giving up xinit: no such file or directory (errno2) unable to connect to x server xinit: no such process (errno3): server error Any ideas? I have tried to remove and reinstall xfree, but it wont budge...

Re: [newbie] X Server Wont Start....

2004-12-04 Thread mike
J wrote: Hi All, Had a power failure, and now this: execve failed for /etc/X11/x (errno2) giving up xinit: no such file or directory (errno2) unable to connect to x server xinit: no such process (errno3): server error Any ideas? I have tried to remove and reinstall xfree, but

[newbie] X-86 Will not load

2004-08-27 Thread Steve
I made the mistake of reloading Mandrake 10.0 and forgot that last time I loaded it X86 would not start. Linux tries to start it but, there is a video resolution problem so it dropsto the command line. I fixed it the first time by editing a file that showed the different video resolutions

Re: [newbie] X-86 Will not load

2004-08-27 Thread Paul
Op Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:53:49 -0700 schreef Steve: a video resolution problem so it drops to the command line. I fixed it the first time by editing a file that showed the different video resolutions for the monitor. However, I cannot remember what file it was. Do you know what file that info is

Re: [newbie] x-mplayer2

2004-07-27 Thread Paul Smith
_nasturtium wrote: I have not been able to have KMPlayer working on any other sites. However, it plays the mp3 files in my hard disk. Do you have xine installed? I'm not sure if mplayer supports .asx. (For xine, you might have to link directly e.g. http://10.133.169.15:80/tsfdirecto instead of

Re: [newbie] x-mplayer2

2004-07-26 Thread _nasturtium
Hi! Firstly, sorry for taking so long to reply. On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:00 am, Paul Smith wrote: I have not been able to have KMPlayer working on any other sites. However, it plays the mp3 files in my hard disk. Do you have xine installed? I'm not sure if mplayer supports .asx.

Re: [newbie] x-mplayer2

2004-07-18 Thread Paul Smith
_nasturtium wrote: Thanks, _nasturtium. I have just installed KMPlayer, but the problem persists at the problematic site: http://www.tsf.sapo.pt/online/primeira/default.asp I cannot hear anything at the site above. Does KMPlayer work on any other sites (if not, do you see the embedded player)?

Re: [newbie] x-mplayer2

2004-07-15 Thread _nasturtium
Hi! On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:21 am, Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, _nasturtium. I have just installed KMPlayer, but the problem persists at the problematic site: http://www.tsf.sapo.pt/online/primeira/default.asp I cannot hear anything at the site above. Paul Does KMPlayer work on any other

[newbie] X Includes....

2004-07-09 Thread JRH
Hi, I'm trying to compile/install something, and it's tripping up. See pasting below! checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! [EMAIL PROTECTED] qsstv-5.1a]$ I've had this error before, last year, whilst trying to

Re: [newbie] X Includes....

2004-07-09 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
JRH wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile/install something, and it's tripping up. See pasting below! checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! [EMAIL PROTECTED] qsstv-5.1a]$ install the libxfree86-devel package raffaele

[newbie] X-Chat

2004-07-09 Thread SME Server Admin
Could anyone tell me where X-Chat keeps its logs. I know I've got them switched on but I don't know where they are stored. Anyone?? TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] X-Chat

2004-07-09 Thread Anders Lind
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:14:49 +0100 SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone tell me where X-Chat keeps its logs. I know I've got them switched on but I don't know where they are stored. Without being sure as I am not running XChat atm my guess is that you have a

Re: [newbie] X-Chat

2004-07-09 Thread Dan Gordon
On Friday 09 July 2004 10:14 am, SME Server Admin wrote: Could anyone tell me where X-Chat keeps its logs. I know I've got them switched on but I don't know where they are stored. Anyone?? TIA Mine are kept in /home/username/.xchat2/xchatlogs Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Jul 9 10:42:23 EDT

Re: [newbie] X-Chat

2004-07-09 Thread LtCdData
in either .xchat2/xchatlogs or .xchat/xchatlogs for older versions On Friday 09 Jul 2004 H:14, SME Server Admin wrote: Could anyone tell me where X-Chat keeps its logs. I know I've got them switched on but I don't know where they are stored. Anyone?? TIA

Re: [newbie] X-Chat

2004-07-09 Thread SME Server Admin
On Friday 09 Jul 2004 15:43, Dan Gordon wrote: /home/username/.xchat2/xchatlogs Ahh yes, thanks found it :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] x-mplayer2

2004-07-05 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All On some news sites, to listen to the news, it is necessary x-mplayer2. Where can one find it? Does it really work on Linux platforms? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] x-windows based encryption software

2004-06-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 22 Jun 2004 05:05, Pete Doak wrote: Hi: I'm looking for a nice gui based encryption software program. Preferably something that will run under KDE, and perform on the fly encryption of the files in a directory. But I'm willing to encrypt the files one at a time too. I've been

[newbie] x-windows based encryption software

2004-06-21 Thread Pete Doak
Hi: I'm looking for a nice gui based encryption software program. Preferably something that will run under KDE, and perform on the fly encryption of the files in a directory. But I'm willing to encrypt the files one at a time too. I've been using Kremlin under windows, and I'm trying to move

[newbie] X problem Strange Activity revisited?

2004-05-22 Thread Terence Golightly
List, Below I have attached an excerpt of dmesg from the other night. Of particular interest is the messages from X about an illegal attempt to access hardware. I left my machine with the desktop locked and was doing other things. I returned and found a login screen. I tried to log back in

Re: [newbie] X problem Strange Activity revisited?

2004-05-22 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Saturday 22 May 2004 20:11, Terence Golightly wrote: List, Below I have attached an excerpt of dmesg from the other night. Of particular interest is the messages from X about an illegal attempt to access hardware. -

[newbie] X sometimes start sometimes does not ??!!

2004-05-17 Thread hertas
Hello Friends, I use Mndrk 10.0 (download edition)- Kernel 2.6 . But when I loaded nividia drivers I have problems . X sometimes does not start. And it gives errors that NVIDIA(0) couldn't loaded. When I re-install nvidia driver once more X starts normally and then can not next time (next boot

Re: [newbie] X sometimes start sometimes does not ??!!

2004-05-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 17 May 2004 11:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Friends, I use Mndrk 10.0 (download edition)- Kernel 2.6 . But when I loaded nividia drivers I have problems . X sometimes does not start. And it gives errors that NVIDIA(0) couldn't loaded. When I re-install nvidia driver once

Re: [newbie] X server crash

2004-05-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 2 May 2004 22:57:49 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity: what desktop are you running with 2 MB of video RAM? Shirley not KDE or Guh-nome! The choice of window manager is irrelevant. It's the video resolution that determines whether it'll fit. A lightweight

Re: [newbie] X server crash

2004-05-11 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 11 May 2004 21:12:53 -0700 David E. Fox disseminated the following: The choice of window manager is irrelevant. It's the video resolution that determines whether it'll fit. A lightweight window manager at the same screen resolution as KDE is going to use the same amount of video

[newbie] X sometimes start sometimes does not ??!!

2004-05-05 Thread hertas
Hello Friends, I use Mndrk 10.0 (download edition)- Kernel 2.6 . But when I loaded nividia drivers I have problems . X sometimes does not start. And it gives errors that NVIDIA(0) couldn't loaded. When I re-install nvidia driver once more X starts normally and then can not next time (next

[newbie] X server crash

2004-05-02 Thread Jason Jesso
I have installed Mandrake 10 Community. It seems the X server crashes when I start X e.g. startx I have attached the XFree86 log. Make no sense to me. XFree86.0.log Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] X server crash

2004-05-02 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 02 May 2004 5:10 pm, Jason Jesso wrote: I have installed Mandrake 10 Community. It seems the X server crashes when I start X e.g. startx I have attached the XFree86 log. Make no sense to me. I think this is it: (EE) ATI(0): Virtual size (1024x768) (pitch 1024) exceeds video memory

Re: [newbie] X server crash

2004-05-02 Thread Jason Jesso
into it. But now I really Mandrake 10. - Original Message - From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 12:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X server crash On Sunday 02 May 2004 5:10 pm, Jason Jesso wrote: I have installed Mandrake 10 Community

Re: [newbie] X server crash

2004-05-02 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 2 May 2004 12:10:23 -0400 Jason Jesso disseminated the following: I have installed Mandrake 10 Community. It seems the X server crashes when I start X e.g. startx I have attached the XFree86 log. Make no sense to me. I'm no X-pert, but this *seems* to stand out to me: (EE)

Re: [newbie] X server crash

2004-05-02 Thread Jason Jesso
Great. I changed it to 16bpp. that works. thanks - Original Message - From: JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X server crash On Sun, 2 May 2004 12:10:23 -0400 Jason Jesso disseminated the following: I have

Re: [newbie] X server crash

2004-05-02 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 02 May 2004 6:05 pm, Jason Jesso wrote: I have attached the XF86Config-4 file. My video chip is on-board and has 2 MB memory. The strange thing is that these setting are the settings I had 2 versions of Mandrake ago. 2MB is really small these days. Seems the default install

Re: [newbie] X server crash

2004-05-02 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 2 May 2004 13:47:29 -0400 Jason Jesso disseminated the following: Great. I changed it to 16bpp. that works. Just out of curiosity: what desktop are you running with 2 MB of video RAM? Shirley not KDE or Guh-nome! -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

Re: [newbie] X Includer

2004-02-22 Thread JRH
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:36:45 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: libxfree86-devel Thank you Brave Sir Robin, I'll have a look right now! JRH -- Sent using Sylpheed, on Mandrake Linux 9.2. Blessed are the geek, for they shall inherit the source code Registered Linux User #340061 AMD

[newbie] X won't start!

2004-02-17 Thread Marc Resnick
X Graphical Interface won't start! It won't start on the new kernel I'm trying to figure out, or my old one(see my other thread). The only thing I've changed is telling Harddrake not to start on boot, because H.J. Bathoorn told me it would rid of an error I was receiving at boot. Is this

Re: [newbie] X won't start!

2004-02-17 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Simon Kitching [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't start! On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 17:21, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Simon Kitching [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] X won't start!

2004-02-17 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 18:18, Marc Resnick wrote: Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list! Fatal server error: Could not open default font 'fixed' XIO: fatal IO error 104(connection reset by peer) 0X X server :0.0 after 0 requests(0 known processed) with 0 events

[newbie] X font server

2003-12-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Anyone know anything about how the X font server works ?? take a look at, /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/XftCompat.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] X died, questions...

2003-12-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 00:58, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Version 9.2 of Mandrake has been very solid here, I'm happy to say, but after leaving my system on for a couple of hours yesterday (well, okay - 5/6 hrs), X crashed. It did start right back up though - did not have to reboot or anything

Re: [newbie] X died, questions...

2003-12-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:06 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: LX Was it connected to the net while you were gone? Er, yes...cable-modem here always on... :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] X died, questions...

2003-12-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 02:25, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:06 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: LX Was it connected to the net while you were gone? Er, yes...cable-modem here always on... :-) Is it possible that somebody could have tapped your X11 port 6000. LX --

[newbie] X free security update problem

2003-12-20 Thread johnb51
Ran md update for the latest xfree update. Update had to remove the the old one to install the update. Everything seemed to download and install ok. When I start the computer now it stops at the command line login. After login and tryin to start kde I get the following error messages: execve

[newbie] X died, questions...

2003-12-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Version 9.2 of Mandrake has been very solid here, I'm happy to say, but after leaving my system on for a couple of hours yesterday (well, okay - 5/6 hrs), X crashed. It did start right back up though - did not have to reboot or anything drastic like that. I checked .xsession-errors, it had

[newbie] X-Screensaver at KDE

2003-11-29 Thread Ivn Velamazn Gonzlez
Hi to all: After beeing some time messing around with Gnome and KDE trying to decide which of them I prefer most, the only think I have decided is that I _HATE_ Mandrake's KDE screen savers, and I would like to use X-Screensaver with KDE. Any advices about how to do it (it's not in my list of

Re: [newbie] X-Screensaver at KDE

2003-11-29 Thread Ivn Velamazn Gonzlez
OK, I've seen this same question is asked and answered a few days ago... Sorry. Iván Velamazán González wrote: Hi to all: After beeing some time messing around with Gnome and KDE trying to decide which of them I prefer most, the only think I have decided is that I _HATE_ Mandrake's KDE

[newbie] X-Forwarding and Knoppix

2003-11-24 Thread Grant
Would using X-Forwarding with a Knoppix CD be better than using VNC? - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] X sever

2003-07-23 Thread drew martin
Hi All, How do I turn off Xsever?So I can install some new video driver.I have tied everything I can think off. I'm running MDK 9.1,I've work out how to get to the folder in a Terminal,bu keep getting the error messageyou apper to be running a X sever please,turn off. The

Re: [newbie] X sever

2003-07-23 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:42:18 +0100 drew martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, How do I turn off Xsever?So I can install some new video driver.I have tied everything I can think off. I'm running MDK 9.1,I've work out how to get to the folder in a

Re: [newbie] X sever

2003-07-23 Thread drew martin
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 3:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 23:42, drew martin wrote: Hi All, How do I turn off Xsever?So I can install some new video driver.I have tied everything I can think off. I'm running MDK 9.1,I've work out how to get to the folder

Re: [newbie] X sever

2003-07-23 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
drew martin wrote: Hi All, How do I turn off Xsever?So I can install some new video driver.I have tied everything I can think off. I'm running MDK 9.1,I've work out how to get to the folder in a Terminal,bu keep getting the error messageyou apper to be running a X sever

Re: [newbie] X sever

2003-07-23 Thread Eduardo Silva
drew martin wrote: Hi All, How do I turn off Xsever?So I can install some new video driver.I have tied everything I can think off. I'm running MDK 9.1,I've work out how to get to the folder in a Terminal,bu keep getting the error messageyou apper to be running a X sever

RE: [newbie] X sever

2003-07-23 Thread Dennis . R . Myers
Title: RE: [newbie] X sever -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 9:34 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] X sever On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 23:42, drew martin wrote: Hi All, How do I

Re: [newbie] X sever

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 3:59 pm, drew martin wrote: On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 3:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 23:42, drew martin wrote: Hi All, How do I turn off Xsever?So I can install some new video driver.I have tied everything I can think off.

Re: [newbie] X sever

2003-07-23 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 00:59, drew martin wrote: On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 3:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 23:42, drew martin wrote: Hi All, How do I turn off Xsever?So I can install some new video driver.I have tied everything I can think off. I'm

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday June 10 2003 07:53 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 09 June 2003 05:11 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: It'll probly never go to 64 even if it set higher. Set aperature to 4mb and it effectively disables sidebanding. Often that cures many AGP problems. Tom, I went and googlized

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 11:32 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: No ;) Can't say I understand it any better than you, but I can copy'n paste ;) :-) Thanks, thats along the lines of what I found. Lots of hits were advocating disabling it, if it wasn't already. My sons comps both have Geforce 2's

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday June 10 2003 11:03 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I've got a Ti4200 with 64 megs of Ram, 4X AGP and I've had lots of instability issues... First I thought it was memory (and partly was - I guess - cpuburn wouldn't run longer than 2 mins). So in came the Corsair DDR memory. Then I

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-09 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 00:41, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2003 07:03 pm, ed tharp wrote: and what are we doing about acpi, apm, apic, both in BIOS and software, and what is the AGP settings? also, does this MoBo bios rest to defaults when it crashes? (I mean when you have to

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 09 June 2003 07:20 am, ed tharp wrote: what about agp memory aperture? I have a 64 meg Ti4200 Nvidia card so I set the aperture to 64 megs. Is that okay? -- /\ Dark Lord

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-09 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:53 AM 6/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 09 June 2003 07:20 am, ed tharp wrote: what about agp memory aperture? I have a 64 meg Ti4200 Nvidia card so I set the aperture to 64 megs. Is that okay? -- /\ Dark

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 9 2003 02:44 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: i don't know if it applies to linux but in windows 128 is normal...not matter what size your video ram is. Tho 64 is safe if you feel 128 is pushing it too hard. It'll probly never go to 64 even if it set higher. Set aperature to 4mb

[newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Got an odd problem here - only since I've been using v9.1 of Mandrake (download edition). Every so often - and I'm talking like every 5-10-15 mins or so, X crashes back to the shell. Always the same message, caught signal 11, fatal server error. Sometimes it crashes sitting still, no games

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 11:46:28 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Got an odd problem here - only since I've been using v9.1 of Mandrake (download edition). Every so often - and I'm talking like every 5-10-15 mins or so, X crashes back to the shell. Always the same message,

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 14:52:21 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hmm, I'd like to know how to tell the difference? well, I am only basing that theory on the fact that x is not crashing when you first open it, but later on, perhaps by something running in the background. I couldn't

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:46 AM 6/8/2003 -0400, you wrote: Got an odd problem here - only since I've been using v9.1 of Mandrake (download edition). Every so often - and I'm talking like every 5-10-15 mins or so, X crashes back to the shell. Always the same message, caught signal 11, fatal server error. Sometimes it

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 18:49, FemmeFatale wrote: At 11:46 AM 6/8/2003 -0400, you wrote: Got an odd problem here - only since I've been using v9.1 of Mandrake (download edition). Every so often - and I'm talking like every 5-10-15 mins or so, X crashes back to the shell. Always the same

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 01:46, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Got an odd problem here - only since I've been using v9.1 of Mandrake (download edition). Every so often - and I'm talking like every 5-10-15 mins or so, X crashes back to the shell. Always the same message, caught signal 11, fatal server

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 08 June 2003 06:49 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Try disabling DPMS? Thats what i'd do first off... - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 08 June 2003 07:03 pm, ed tharp wrote: and what are we doing about acpi, apm, apic, both in BIOS and software, and what is the AGP settings? also, does this MoBo bios rest to defaults when it crashes? (I mean when you have to power off by the switch, if ever?) Acpi and apic are

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 08 June 2003 07:09 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Have you check the system logs to see what's also happening at the same time you're crashing? And, BTW, have you double checked your lib path settings in the /etc/ld.so.conf and the likes? Have you rerun ldconfig? Have you run updatedb?

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-08 Thread FemmeFatale
At 12:37 AM 6/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2003 06:49 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Try disabling DPMS? Thats what i'd do first off... - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character

[newbie] X Font Server Problem

2003-03-17 Thread Matt Mahoney
Is what my problem is that I have somehow lost my fixed font in my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc folder which is preventing x from starting. Does anyone know where to get this font? I cannot find it anywhere. Matt Mahoney Web Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ems-i.com 801-302-1400 Phone 801-302-1160

Re: [newbie] X Font Server Problem

2003-03-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 07:33, Matt Mahoney wrote: Is what my problem is that I have somehow lost my fixed font in my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc folder which is preventing x from starting. Does anyone know where to get this font? I cannot find it anywhere. Matt Mahoney Nothing will

Re: Re: Re: [newbie] X not starting at boot

2003-01-24 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 23 January 2003 03:56 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 16:50, Adolfo Bello wrote: Do a: chkconfig --list dm It should show: dm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off If level 5 is off, turn it on with

Re: Re: Re: Re: [newbie] X not starting at boot

2003-01-24 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 January 2003 01:52 am, Pupeno wrote: On Thursday 23 January 2003 03:56 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 16:50, Adolfo Bello wrote: Do a: chkconfig --list dm It should show: dm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off

Re: Re: [newbie] X not starting at boot

2003-01-23 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 06:50, Pupeno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 January 2003 10:42 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 18:20, Pupeno wrote: I've installed MDK 9.0 and everything was working ok, but after making all the updates, X

Re: Re: [newbie] X not starting at boot

2003-01-23 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 16:50, Adolfo Bello wrote: Do a: chkconfig --list dm It should show: dm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off If level 5 is off, turn it on with chkconfig --level 5 dm on Do the same for the X Font Server, i.e: chkconfig --list xfs And so on. -- __

[newbie] X not starting at boot

2003-01-22 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've installed MDK 9.0 and everything was working ok, but after making all the updates, X stoped starting at boot. If I run /etc/rc.d/init.d/dm start by had it works, but it doesn't work automatically. It was at position 30 which didn't seem to be

Re: [newbie] X-CD-Roast, last news

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 15:02, Pilagá wrote: Features included in new version 0.98alpha13: Easy setup and intuitive X11 user interface GUI based on GTK+ instead of TCL/TK (100% new C-code) Copies most data/mixed-mode/audio-CDs (data also on-the-fly) Master data-CDs and rearrange audio-CDs

[newbie] X shutting down when in console

2002-11-07 Thread Christian Goldstein
Hiya! Strange things happen in my Linux installation No matter what WindowManager I use, whenever I dare go to the console via Alt+Ctrl+F1 (or 2, or 3...) my WM shuts down for some odd reason. Anyone have a clue whats going on? - Christian Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] X shutting down when in console

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 04:56, Christian Goldstein wrote: Hiya! Strange things happen in my Linux installation No matter what WindowManager I use, whenever I dare go to the console via Alt+Ctrl+F1 (or 2, or 3...) my WM shuts down for some odd reason. Anyone have a clue whats going

[newbie] X not shutting down cleanly

2002-11-05 Thread tim lentowitz
Hello, i have lm 8.2 and set it up for run level 5, medium security. for one of my user id's whenever I log out the system just hangs. the only thing that works to get the system to respond is ctrl-alt-f1, then i have a logon again, su to root, then reboot the machine (because if i try to do

Re: [newbie] X, nVidia drivers ...

2002-10-25 Thread Sharrea
On Saturday 26 Oct 2002 4:41 am, Dale Huckeby wrote: Bummer. So it's not an X problem per se. Afraid I'm out of my depth, but I did do a quick Google search on dcopserver, and found a conversation about inability to start kde. Are you able to use a browser? If so:

Re: [newbie] X, nVidia drivers ...

2002-10-25 Thread Sharrea
On Saturday 26 Oct 2002 6:19 am, Robin Turner wrote: Dale Huckeby wrote: Bummer. So it's not an X problem per se. Afraid I'm out of my depth, but I did do a quick Google search on dcopserver, and found a conversation about inability to start kde. Are you able to use a browser? If

Re: [newbie] X, nVidia drivers ...

2002-10-24 Thread Sharrea
On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 4:52 pm, Rainer wrote: after using mdk 8.2 for almost 8 months, i still seem to be unable to get the x server and my nvidia card to coexist peacefully. it took me a couple of months to get it to be relatively stable after the first install. i got the glx and kernel rpms

Re: [newbie] X, nVidia drivers ...

2002-10-24 Thread bascule
that error is not an nvidia error, i could be wrong but open a console and delete the following ~/.DCOP* yo should find that kde now starts, at least that what i have done when i had that error, i also emptied /tmp but i don't think that is necessary bascule On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 7:57 am,

Re: [newbie] X, nVidia drivers ...

2002-10-24 Thread Sharrea
Thanks bascule, but I already did remove ~/.DCOP* and /tmp/* (countless times) but that made no difference. Also removed ~/.ICEauthority ~/.mcoprc ~/.mcop/ - also didn't help. Obviously, one of the files that Gnome and KDE use is getting stuffed up. Thanks for the reply tho. Ah well...

Re: [newbie] X, nVidia drivers ...

2002-10-24 Thread Dale Huckeby
. Good luck! Dale Huckeby - Original Message - From: Dale Huckeby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X, nVidia drivers ... . . . OK, having said all that, many others have got the nvidia drivers working in 9.0

Re: [newbie] X, nVidia drivers ...

2002-10-24 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Sharrea wrote: On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 4:52 pm, Rainer wrote: after using mdk 8.2 for almost 8 months, i still seem to be unable to get the x server and my nvidia card to coexist peacefully. it took me a couple of months to get it to be relatively stable after the first

[newbie] X, nVidia problems ...

2002-10-17 Thread Rainer
hello, tried to install some new nvid drivers for man 8.2, went to nvidia, matched the kernel and glx (3XXX) versions. the kernel installed fine, but the glx didn't want to. used the '-e' option outlined in the nvid read me and it installed but now X won't start at boot up! since i'm no expert on

Re: [newbie] X, nVidia problems ...

2002-10-17 Thread bascule
is this the first time for installing nvidia drivers? if so then you need to edit /etc/X11/XF86config-4 and find nv in the driver section and change it to nvidia also make sure load glx is added after the freetype reference in the modules section if not then you know this:-) bascule On Thursday

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