Thank you for your quick reply.... > Incoming from Doyle, Patrick: > > I found this thread in the archives, and I am experiencing the same > > behavior (on my Compaq Presario 2100 with a stock "woody" bf2.4 > > install). I have also seen that I cannot run KDE -- it > > simply crashes during startup. From everything I've read, I > > probably need to upgrade to Xfree86 4.3 in order to make these > > problems go away, but I have some questions first. > > > > 1) In the short term (I need to get work done _today_ and > > can't spend the day upgrading X), how can I turn off the > > screensaver? I don't see any menu > > I don't use kde, but doesn't a right-click on the background > bring up anything useful? > Sadly no, this is why I am so confused. I just can't find the right knob to turn to shut the darn thing off. In the mean time, I have rerun the debian configuration utility and told the X server not to use the frame buffer interface, since the notes said that, sometimes things work better with that off, and sometimes they work better with it on. I am still waiting to see what happens when/if the screensaver kicks in. (And am using the computer in the mean time, so I can't just wait for it, and don't know how to configure it to change the timeout to something like 30 seconds, sigh... It's hard being me :-)
> > 2) In the long term, is there a .deb package I can grab to > > perform the upgrade to 4.3 more easily than downloading > > 12 different files from xfree86.org? > > Have you looked in backports? I see 4.2 in > http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/xfree86/binary-i38 6/ Thanks... That looks like a good resource to know about. I am new to Debian (though not new to Linux) and am still trying to learn what resources are available. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
