Re: [Newbie]Two trivial problems

2002-12-12 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, C. Brewer wrote: Boy oh boy!! I'd like to make some slight adjustments to Oisin's suggestions. While technically accurate, just a little off enough to confuse. snip excellent points Thanks for checking up on me C. ! Your answer is much better. Oisin Feeley

Re: [Newbie]startx problem

2002-12-02 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (--) checkDevMem: using aperture driver /dev/xf86 (--) Using wscons driver in pcvt compatibility mode (version 3.32) (WW) xf86AcquireGART: AGPIOC_ACQUIRE failed (Inappropriate ioctl for device) (WW) GARTInit: AGPIOC_INFO failed (Inappropriate ioctl

Re: [Newbie]startx crash

2002-12-01 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Jonathan Drews wrote: On Saturday 30 November 2002 10:52 am, J H wrote: I am running SuSE 8.1, and I am trying to get Xwindows 4.2.0 to work. I have an S3 Savage4 on-board video card. When I put in 'startx' in returns this: Hi: Did you try running SuSE's SaX2 X

Re: [Newbie]Re: CMI8738 + Xfree86

2002-12-01 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Mr. Rafael Cheng wrote: Just realized one more thing... when I logged in x windows as root, I gained some sound. So this make me think that there must be a directory where its permissions is only for root. Does anyone know which directory this may be? Hi Rafael, It may

Re: [Newbie]Does anyone know anything about compiling Mozilla?

2002-12-01 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Joshua L. McDowell wrote: After finally getting mozilla to compile and install in hopes that it would run better it runs much worse. It's laggy and so on, can anyone offer any insight as to why this is? Joshua L. McDowell You'll get more help on this question from one

Re: [Newbie]mail archive

2002-12-01 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On 1 Dec 2002, Igor Parchakov wrote: Hi, Is there any mail archives available to browse on xfree86.org. I'm configuring X for my PowerMac G4 Cube, and I'm sure my questions are olready answered before. Regards, Igor Up until about a week ago there were. They used to be at

Re: [Newbie]mail archive

2002-12-01 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Georgina O Economou wrote: At 12:45 PM 12/1/2002 -0500, you wrote: snip Is there any mail archives available to browse on xfree86.org. I'm configuring X for my PowerMac G4 Cube, and I'm sure my questions are olready answered before. snip There is another method to view

Re: [Newbie]Some very basic How-to needed

2002-11-30 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Mark R. Muto wrote: Hello all, After years of goofing around with leftover PCs and Frankenstien combinations of older hardware, I decided to give RedHat Linux 8.0 a new PC of its own. I purchased a brand new 1.8ghz Pentium 4 PC from Dell (whitebox equivalent of Optiplex

Re: [Newbie]Some very basic How-to needed

2002-11-30 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Daryl Lee wrote: I just solved this problem (with a little help from the mailing list). The solution that worked for me is to retrieve the current state of the XFree86 code from their CVS server, run 'make World' and 'make install', then run xf86config again. When I did

Re: [Newbie]Linux distributions.

2002-11-30 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Hans Borg wrote: Hi all, Have followed this forum for a time. No doubt that video-cards and associated monitors present problems in any X-server used (XFree86, XFreeBSD .). My impression, though, is that a lot of people using RedHat are running into problems. I my

Re: [Newbie]Linux distributions.

2002-11-30 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Jonathan Drews wrote: snip I have found Libranet (which is Debian Woody with an install interface) to be very good. No problems with X in that one. I think SuSE is ok. My video in SuSE runs well. However I am curious about the modprobe: can't locate char-major-226

Re: [Newbie]font issue?

2002-11-28 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Jeffrey Ross wrote: Not sure if its a problem with XF (downloaded the xc release via CVS about a week ago). Trying to run Adobe Acrobat and I receive the following error: [jeff@linux2 bin]$ ./acroread Warning: charset UTF-8 not supported, using ISO8859-1. Aborted

Re: [Newbie]X Clipboard Xtremely Broken

2002-11-27 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On 27 Nov 2002, Erik Moeller wrote: On Die, 2002-11-26 at 17:29, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: 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

Re: [Newbie]Help: Installation of Video / Sound / Modem Drivers -RH Ver 8.0

2002-11-22 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, N Sriram wrote: snip Yesterday, I had successfully installed RH Ver 8.0 in my machine. My Machine Configuration is as follows: P4 1.7 Intel D845GLLY Mother Board with integrated Sound and Video 40 GB HDD Samtron 56v 15 Monitor Logitec Optical Mouse... I have

Re: [Newbie]memory useage of X

2002-11-04 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Jason Riley wrote: This is unlikely as we are running the same top version. also the difference in memeory useage is considerably more then the meagre 32mb on my graphics card. also as i am running processes large enough to fill memory, i am overrunning the system memory

Re: [Newbie]xkb

2002-10-31 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to switch languages (English, French, Italian) very often within the same document where I am using text and graphics - in OpenOffice, specifically. s there some way to switch keyboard layouts on FreeBSD quickly and painlessly as can be done

Re: [Newbie]Port 32768

2002-10-28 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, A.Melon wrote: How can tcp port 32768 be disabled? When using startx, the -nolisten tcp option seems to disallow all tcp access, but when using xdm, it only disallows port 6000. I haven't been able to shut down port 32768, and haven't found any documentation that

Re: [Newbie]Disable Port 32000+

2002-10-28 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, A.Melon wrote: How does one disable tcp access on ports at or about 32768? When I start X with startx, this port doesn't seem to be used, and the -nolisten tcp option makes sure that port 6000 isn't used either. However, when I use xdm, the -nolisten tcp option still

Re: [Newbie]X hangs after being loaded

2002-10-28 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Frederik wrote: Greetings everyone, I have installed a fresh Slackware with Xfree 4.1.0. When starting X, the computer just hangs, only a hard reset revives it.I can reach the desktop, but nothing more.I have tried installing 4.2.0, but have recieved the same result.I

Re: [Newbie]X on MAC OSX

2002-10-28 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paul D. Filliman wrote: I am trying to get X started on my powerbook G4. I have installed Xfree86. The directory¹s look Right. I set the path required. Whenever I attempt to run a program using X I get the error ³Can't open display² I have tried setting DISPLAY to the

[Newbie]Red Hat 8.0 couldn't open default font error

2002-10-26 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have problems with X in redhat 8.0 the computar say me fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'... [snip entire irrelevant digest] Hi, I've retitled your post with a more informative subject. This will help anyone else

Re: [Newbie]Using the intel 82845G video card

2002-10-21 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Scott Hadfield wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use the i82845G video card with RedHat 7.3. However, there was no support for this video card until the most recent version of XFree86. I was wondering if it was possible to take just the driver for that card out of cvs and

Re: [Newbie]Is this all there is to XFree86?

2002-10-20 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Chuck Gelm wrote: Howdy: I think that I have successfully installed 4.2.1. I can 'startx' and I get a blank desktop with a small clock and three (3) windows; 'login', 'xterm', and 'xterm'. There is no color. It is all monochrome in shades of gray. I can toggle

Re: [Newbie]Please help: refresh rate too high in RH8 generatedconfig

2002-10-18 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Lionel Lecoq wrote: I don't know RH 8 but RH 7.x generates two config files both located in /etc/X11. The one XF86Config is there for those who use X 3.3.6 the other XF86Config-4 for those who use X 4.x.x If you have such a setup, any change to the wrong config file

Re: [Newbie]Please help: refresh rate too high in RH8 generated

2002-10-18 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Lance Birtcil wrote: I've installed RedHat 8 on my machine and am running into a bit of a problem with the xserver. I'm trying to run my monitor, a Viewsonic G810, at 1600x1200 but something (xserver ??) keeps insisting on using a refresh rate of 85.2 Hz, higher than