[Newbie]I need a XF86Config file....please

2002-11-26 Thread Ole Jacob Hagen
Hi. I have some problems with XFree86-4.2.1 and my XF86Config-file. Graphics card is an ATI Rage 128 and my screen is a Dell E771p screen. I am using kernel-2.4.19. My problem is that I can't see the shutdown-progress, which I want to see.I did see that when I was using XFree86-4

[Newbie]my mouse won't work!!

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Kelly
Title: Message hi there,   I've installed 4.2.0 but can't get my mouse to work.  I've selected ps/2, intellimouse, logitech and microsoft mouse but it is still all screwy.  Can anyone suggest anything?   Cheers, Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED]    

[Newbie]Black console during system reboot/shutdown

2002-11-26 Thread Ole Jacob Hagen
Hi. I am having some problems during System reboot/shutdown. During a system shutdown/reboot the console turns black. I am using a ATI Rage 128 card, and have tried both the ati and r128 driver options in my XF86Config-file, but no success. I'm running XFree-4.2.1, but I didn't experience this e

Re: [Newbie]my mouse won't work!!

2002-11-26 Thread David C. Diemer
Stephen: 1. Login as root or 'su' to root. 2. Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, if it exists. Otherwise, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config. 3. Look for the following lines and be sure they are present (this is for a PS/2 mouse or busmouse. I've also included a section for a USB wheel mouse). *Section "I

[Newbie]XLib: Error Messages on startkde

2002-11-26 Thread Darren Williams
Hi folks,   I am running RH 7.2 on a 32-node 2-way IBM 1300 cluster. I login remotely from a windows 2000 machine. I am running Hummingbird's Exceed and Hummingbird's Window Manager (because W2k doesn't play nice with the kde or gnu desktop).   Anyway, I hate to ignore error messages, since

[Newbie]X Clipboard Xtremely Broken

2002-11-26 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi, whenever I try to paste large amounts of text (>1 bytes), e.g. from an editor (irrelevant which one I use) to a browser (also doesn't matter which browser I use), I get big problems. It doesn't matter if I use PRIMARY or CLIPBOARD, the pasted text just doesn't arrive. In Mozilla I just get

Re: [Newbie]Help: Downloading and Installing xFree86

2002-11-26 Thread Michael Dengler
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 19:57, Joey S. Eisma wrote: > hi! > > i can only get to the command prompt. i cant run my window manager with > mandrake 9.0, seems like there's a problem in supporting s3 trio 3d/2x. i > searched the help archive and found one note that says i need to install > xfree86 3.3.6

[Newbie]Problem with Xinerama and VBIOS

2002-11-26 Thread DeSouza, Wellington Oliveira
I have been fighting for days with xinerama. I have three of the same card (Hercules dynamite 128 with 2M memory). I am only using two at time. No matter what I do , the secondary video card will not work. Whichever one is first on the PCI bios will work like a charm. The monitor hooked u

Re: [Newbie]X Clipboard Xtremely Broken

2002-11-26 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On 26 Nov 2002, Erik Moeller wrote: >Hi, > >whenever I try to paste large amounts of text (>1 bytes), e.g. from >an editor (irrelevant which one I use) to a browser (also doesn't matter >which browser I use), I get big problems. It doesn't matter if I use >PRIMARY or CLIPBOARD, the pasted te

[Newbie]xfree86 4.20

2002-11-26 Thread Joshua L. McDowell
I am fairly new to re-bulding xfree 86, (Ok REALLY new) and I am currently running RedHat Linux 8.0. I have been rebuilding everything I can get my hands on to better run on my server and Xfree86 is next on my hit list. I have noticed however that it appears to completly lack documentation i

[Newbie]errno 111

2002-11-26 Thread Pedro Sousa
Hi there, I´m a newbi in the linux world. That is I add installed the red hat once but some friends told me to install debian. So I did. But when I installed it I couldn't start X. I have tried to configure it throu XF86Setup but it gives me the error _X11TransSocketUnixConnect : Can't Co

Re: [Newbie]Using an X server remotely.

2002-11-26 Thread Ed Lott
Ian: I also wanted to point out that you can do this: telnet host.ipaddr DISPLAY= display.ipaddr:0.0 export DISPLAY gnome-session & OR telnet host.ipaddr DISPLAY= display.ipaddr:0.0 export DISPLAY startkde & if you have them installed. Ed.

[Newbie]Archives

2002-11-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
Hey, Anybody listening that can get the archives accessable again? http://XFree86.Org/pipermail/newbie/ has returned a 404 for 3 or 4 days. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscr