[Newbie]Compile radeon drivers from CVS

2002-07-03 Thread Adrian Gygax
Is it possible to compile only the radeon drivers from CVS sources? Getting the sources from CVS is not a problem but how can I create a Makefile? With the GATOS CVS sources it works using the xmkmf tool but I'm not able to do the same with the Xfree ones. Until now I used the GATOS drivers

Re: [Newbie]Shutting down a rouge Xserver

2002-07-03 Thread Peter Kozberski
On Tue 02 Jul, Eric Sprague wrote: 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. There's no server showing with ps. locate finds

[Newbie]Virge GX Card

2002-07-03 Thread Derek Smith
After installing RedHat 7.3, the display is less than good. I have the mouse shadow and verticalines on screen. I have attached my config file(s). Any help is really appreciated. Section ServerLayout Identifier XFree86 Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0

[Newbie]Video card problem

2002-07-03 Thread Jad Nehman
Hi, I am having a BIT of a problem with my video card. Problem: When I tried installing RedHat 7.3 through graphical mode, I could not see the whole screen so for example the Next button was not visible for me to use the mouse and click it. So I installed it using text mode. When I

[Newbie]Using TV output of my video card.

2002-07-03 Thread fernandosanz
I have changed my old Riva TNT to a 3D Blaster GeForce 2 to get a TV output for connecting the PC to the TV and don't have to use a monitor. The problem comes because I can't start the Xwindows, I have configured xfree86 (it detect the card without problem, but the problem remains. I have

Re: [Newbie]Shutting down a rouge Xserver

2002-07-03 Thread Robyn Manning
Hi You could try deleting the contents of your /tmp directory and restarting 'X'. Robyn ps That's a trick we use with kde. On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 08:15, Peter Kozberski wrote: On Tue 02 Jul, Eric Sprague wrote: First, use ps aux to verify that there is indeed an extra X server running

RE: [Newbie]Video card problem

2002-07-03 Thread Victor Roberts
I don't have a solution, but check driver status page at www.xfree86.org. Some of the S3 Savage chips are not supported by 4.2.0, but I could nor find the chip you mention in either the 4.2.0 list or the 3.3.6 list. However, this does not explain why you could not install in graphical mode. The

[Newbie]dual screen

2002-07-03 Thread Emanuel Haupt
hi, i have a matrox MGA G400 AGP card with two monitor outputs. how can i make xfree86 to switch with the mouse from screen1 to screen2? someone have me the hint to use xf86cfg but that did not really help. i think it would if i had two completely different graphic cards. Section Device

Re: RE: [Newbie]Video card problem

2002-07-03 Thread Joshua Lokken
And I was _not_ able to install RedHat 7.3 with an Diamond S3 (v864?) with SDAC in graphical mode. Joshua Lokken 7/3/2002 10:08:11 AM, Victor Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have a solution, but check driver status page at www.xfree86.org. Some of the S3 Savage chips are not

RE: [Newbie]dual screen

2002-07-03 Thread Jorge Valencia
Go here: http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/lnx_200.cfm 1. download the g400 drivers the powerdesk utility 2. read the release notes 3. install the drivers 4. restart the X server 5. install powerdesk 6. run mgapdesk 7. choose the dual-head multi-display option 8. adjust

Re: [Newbie]Anyone else have any other ideas -- Problems running XFree86 v 4.2.0 on FreeBSD

2002-07-03 Thread James
OK, I got this problem fixed now, thanks to Mark Vojkovich on the XPert XFree86 mailing list. I'm posting this in case anyone else has any similar problems. There was a problem in the int10 module. I suppose looking at my output (below), you can see that it tries to load and initialize the int10

[Newbie]Xfree86 locking up.

2002-07-03 Thread Ben Hawkes
I've installed Xfree86 4.1.0.1 on my Debian 3.0 box, but whenever it's run it just enters a blank screen, and doesn't respond to any keypresses (Alt+Ctrl+BackSpace, Alt+Ctrl+Del etc). The same happens when using startx, kdm, or kde2. The box has an onboard ProSavage K133 with a Unisys EVG-300-COL

Re: [Newbie]Shutting down a rouge Xserver

2002-07-03 Thread Eric Sprague
ls won't find files that start with a '.' (dot). head to that dir, and nuke the file. (It's there, even though ls doesn't see it. use ls -a to make it see dotfiles). --- Peter Kozberski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue 02 Jul, Eric Sprague wrote: First, use ps aux to verify that there is