[Newbie]How do I specify the ati driver?

2002-07-02 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
Hello, I'm new to this list, so forgive me if this has been asked before. I have an ATI Expert 2000 32MB AGP video card. Using Mandrake 8.2, Xfree 4.2.0. I am experiencing random lockups and I have read that I should be using the ati driver for this card. How do specify/tell X to use the ati

[Newbie]Radeon 7200

2002-07-02 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
I have another question. Is the ATI Radeon 7200 card a good card? Does Xfree86 4.2.0 support it well? ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie

Re: [Newbie]Shutting down a rouge Xserver

2002-07-02 Thread Eric Sprague
First, use ps aux to verify that there is indeed an extra X server running - if there is, nuke it with 'killall -TERM X'. If there's not, delete /tmp/.X2-lock (you might have to be root), and try again. --- Peter Kozberski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to compile openoffice on

Re: [Newbie]How do I specify the ati driver?

2002-07-02 Thread Eric Sprague
Look in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (well, that's where RedHat keeps it - Mandrake very very RedHat-like, so it should keep it there too.) In the 'Device' section, there should be a line that reads 'Driver foo'. Change whatever foo is to ati. Also, if you're not already, upgrade to Linux

[Newbie]Shared ColorMap

2002-07-02 Thread Hou, Chia-Shan (NINDS)
Hi, I am a stranger to X windows. However, I need to run a software on Linux. The software needs 8bit color but the system default is 16. Is there any way I can configure my X windows so that it can support this software with 8bit color. There is the error message I got. Color depth =

[Newbie]Upgrading kernel to 2.4.18

2002-07-02 Thread Hendrik Fourie
How exactly would I go about updrading the kernel to version 2.4.18? Where do I donwload it? I am using Red Hat 7.2 ___ http://www.webmail.co.za the South-African free email service ___ Newbie

[Newbie]configuration problem on openBSD!

2002-07-02 Thread KP
Hi, I did run the xf86config in order to start the x-windows but when X-Windows starts, it does show me one window only! Also, I can see the cusror but can't postion it in the screen and can't display any menus! Any idea which part of the configuration went wrong? Thanks

Re: [Newbie]Upgrading kernel to 2.4.18

2002-07-02 Thread Levin Fritz
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:12:03 +0200 Hendrik Fourie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How exactly would I go about updrading the kernel to version 2.4.18? Where do I donwload it? I am using Red Hat 7.2 You could upgrade to RedHat 7.3, that includes kernel 2.4.18. Or go to

Re: [Newbie]Radeon 7200

2002-07-02 Thread James
Check out www.xfree86.org and their documentation section. You can find out there. Of course, they say they support my card, and I've spent about 35 hours trying to get it to work. Now I'm going to take a look at the source code of the drivers and see if I can figure out where it's bombing

[Newbie]Black screen on exit / text items

2002-07-02 Thread DD Jordan
Hello, I have been having problems with exiting an x session. It does logout and goes to a black screen and locks. I am running RH7.3, 2.4.18-5.58 kernel (same thing with 2.4.18-3) 4.2.0 (upgraded to the latest rawhide 4.2.0) and gcc 3.1 This is a continuing problem. Plus somewhere in all of the

[Newbie]RE: Bad XFree86 drivers 4.2 in RedHat Linux distro 7.3 on Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop

2002-07-02 Thread rvs
HARDWARE: 128MB 32MB video memory ATI Rage Mobility M-4 DELL INSPIRON 8000 laptop Summary: XFree86 4.2 on a Dell Inspiron 8000 will crash your computer when used with multimedia applications viewing videos I have notified an employee of RedHat Software m@harris about this issue. First let

Re: [Newbie]requirement to install Xfree86-4.2.0

2002-07-02 Thread Joshua Lokken
7/2/2002 6:50:22 AM, yO rEaL eNeMy... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anyone tell me the requirement that i need to install xfree86-4.2.0. i'm using redhat6.2 with nvidia geforce2 400mx. i've download xfree86-4.2.0 binary for linux so what other thing that i need to d/l such as library or any

Re: [Newbie]Radeon 7200

2002-07-02 Thread Joshua Lokken
7/2/2002 6:52:41 AM, Jerry Van Brimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have another question. Is the ATI Radeon 7200 card a good card? Does Xfree86 4.2.0 support it well? ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message

Re: [Newbie]RE: Bad XFree86 drivers 4.2 in RedHat Linux distro 7.3 on Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop

2002-07-02 Thread Joshua Lokken
7/1/2002 9:24:40 PM, rvs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HARDWARE: 128MB 32MB video memory ATI Rage Mobility M-4 DELL INSPIRON 8000 laptop Summary: XFree86 4.2 on a Dell Inspiron 8000 will crash your computer when used with multimedia applications viewing videos Correction: It will crash

RE: [Newbie]configuration problem on openBSD!

2002-07-02 Thread Gurujiwan Khalsa
Hmmm, I am no expert, but it sounds like you have two problems: 1) Your mouse is misconfigured 2) Your are running raw X w/o any window manager. If I were you I'd send: a) Your XF86Config file; b) your /var/log/XFree86.0.log c) your video card Otherwise your not likely to get any help,

[Newbie]XFree and nv driver

2002-07-02 Thread cHaMaY
Hi everyone, I am running Red Hat 7.3, kernel 2.4.18-4 and XFree86 Version 4.2.0. My video card is Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64. Just now I am running nv drivers ( the ones that come with the O.S. )My problem is that I cannot run X-window in depth 16 and 1024x768 resolution without getting anoying but

[Newbie]Xfree and nv driver

2002-07-02 Thread cHaMaY
sorry, I forgot the XF86Config-4 attachment. cheers. chamay XF86Config-4 Description: Binary data

[Newbie]My experience installing 4.2.0

2002-07-02 Thread Gurujiwan Khalsa
Hi all, I have a P-II running NetBSD 1.5, with an ATI 264GT-IIc video card. I just downloaded and installed 4.2.0, which is replacing the X that came with my version of NetBSD, with was 3.3.-something. The next step I did was run Xf86cfg, which I've never used in previous installs of X. I was

Re: [Newbie]Shared ColorMap

2002-07-02 Thread Feeley
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Hou, Chia-Shan (NINDS) wrote: Hi, I am a stranger to X windows. However, I need to run a software on Linux. The software needs 8bit color but the system default is 16. Is there any way I can configure my X windows so that it can support this software with 8bit

Re: [Newbie]Upgrading kernel to 2.4.18

2002-07-02 Thread wangzhenyuan
Hendrik Fourie,£¡ www.kernel.org === 2002-07-02 17:12:00 £º=== How exactly would I go about updrading the kernel to version 2.4.18? Where do I donwload it? I am using Red Hat 7.2 ___ http://www.webmail.co.za the