Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-08-01 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > I installed xfree 4.0.1 deb (phase1 ~ alpha package). It seems to run > fine > except that I could not suspend/stand because when resume X would crash > the > machine completely. > many moons ago when I installed Xfree 4.0.0 it too would not suspend

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-08-01 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > I installed xfree 4.0.1 deb (phase1 ~ alpha package). It seems to run > fine > except that I could not suspend/stand because when resume X would crash > the > machine completely. > many moons ago when I installed Xfree 4.0.0 it too would not suspen

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-08-01 Thread Xiaolan Ling
~~ From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 1 13:31:23 2000 From: Alexander Clouter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 01:15:09 +0100 Subject: Re: strange melting screen when X starts > 1) X can't be killed nicely. After ctrl-alt-backspace or

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-08-01 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Xiaolan Ling say > Thanks very much! I made some more progress in the weekend. I can login > as normal user after I deleted the .xsession file in the user's home > dir. I think I made a big mess when I was upgrading X. Hopefully, it > works now and my system hasn't hanged

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-08-01 Thread Xiaolan Ling
~~ From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 1 13:31:23 2000 From: Alexander Clouter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 01:15:09 +0100 Subject: Re: strange melting screen when X starts > 1) X can't be killed nicely. After ctrl-alt-backspace or

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-08-01 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Xiaolan Ling say > Thanks very much! I made some more progress in the weekend. I can login > as normal user after I deleted the .xsession file in the user's home > dir. I think I made a big mess when I was upgrading X. Hopefully, it > works now and my system hasn't hange

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-31 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > About the floppy LED problem, I think I'll have to contact my laptop's > manufacturer. Probably it's mad after too many times hard restart. > This seems the only thing you can do. The actual problem sounds like a broken LED or loose wire/contact.

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-31 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > About the floppy LED problem, I think I'll have to contact my laptop's > manufacturer. Probably it's mad after too many times hard restart. > This seems the only thing you can do. The actual problem sounds like a broken LED or loose wire/contact.

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-31 Thread Xiaolan Ling
Thanks very much! I made some more progress in the weekend. I can login as normal user after I deleted the .xsession file in the user's home dir. I think I made a big mess when I was upgrading X. Hopefully, it works now and my system hasn't hanged up till now. About the floppy LED problem, I thin

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-31 Thread Xiaolan Ling
Thanks very much! I made some more progress in the weekend. I can login as normal user after I deleted the .xsession file in the user's home dir. I think I made a big mess when I was upgrading X. Hopefully, it works now and my system hasn't hanged up till now. About the floppy LED problem, I thi

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-30 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > Use framebuffer, you will get full screen console mode at 800x600. > With both 2.2 & 2.4 kernel, I pass vga=0x315 as a kernel parameter via > either grub or lilo. Check lilo/grub/kernel document for more info. BTW, > it > seems that current kernel s

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-30 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > Use framebuffer, you will get full screen console mode at 800x600. > With both 2.2 & 2.4 kernel, I pass vga=0x315 as a kernel parameter via > either grub or lilo. Check lilo/grub/kernel document for more info. BTW, > it > seems that current kernel

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-30 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard name say > Thanks for everybody's help! > > I've done it. I found an option in my BIOS setup called 'resolution > expended', and it was enabled by default. I disabled it and the melting > screen never show again. But there is a trade off. I can only get 640x480 > small s

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-30 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard name say > Thanks for everybody's help! > > I've done it. I found an option in my BIOS setup called 'resolution > expended', and it was enabled by default. I disabled it and the melting > screen never show again. But there is a trade off. I can only get 640x480 > small

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-28 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, name wrote: > > I've done it. I found an option in my BIOS setup called 'resolution > expended', and it was enabled by default. I disabled it and the melting > screen never show again. But there is a trade off. I can only get 640x480 > small screen for text mode now. It's a bi

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-28 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, name wrote: > > I've done it. I found an option in my BIOS setup called 'resolution > expended', and it was enabled by default. I disabled it and the melting > screen never show again. But there is a trade off. I can only get 640x480 > small screen for text mode now. It's a b

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-28 Thread Heather
> Thanks for everybody's help! > > I've done it. I found an option in my BIOS setup called 'resolution > expended', and it was enabled by default. I disabled it and the melting > screen never show again. But there is a trade off. I can only get 640x480 > small screen for text mode now. It's a bit

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-28 Thread Heather
> Thanks for everybody's help! > > I've done it. I found an option in my BIOS setup called 'resolution > expended', and it was enabled by default. I disabled it and the melting > screen never show again. But there is a trade off. I can only get 640x480 > small screen for text mode now. It's a bit

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-28 Thread name
Thanks for everybody's help! I've done it. I found an option in my BIOS setup called 'resolution expended', and it was enabled by default. I disabled it and the melting screen never show again. But there is a trade off. I can only get 640x480 small screen for text mode now. It's a bit painful. Ca

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-28 Thread name
Thanks for everybody's help! I've done it. I found an option in my BIOS setup called 'resolution expended', and it was enabled by default. I disabled it and the melting screen never show again. But there is a trade off. I can only get 640x480 small screen for text mode now. It's a bit painful. C

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-27 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I installed the newest XFree86 4.0.1 on my Debian2.1 laptop recently, > and now it works. But there are still some problems. > > My laptop is Twinhead Slimnote VX3, Toshiba 12.1" TFT LCD, 800x600 SVGA, > 2560K VideoRAM, Trident Cyber 9525DVD chip. >

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-27 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I installed the newest XFree86 4.0.1 on my Debian2.1 laptop recently, > and now it works. But there are still some problems. > > My laptop is Twinhead Slimnote VX3, Toshiba 12.1" TFT LCD, 800x600 SVGA, > 2560K VideoRAM, Trident Cyber 9525DVD chip.

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-27 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Xiaolan Ling say > Hi, > > I installed the newest XFree86 4.0.1 on my Debian2.1 laptop recently, > and now it works. But there are still some problems. I haven't tried Xfree86 4.0.1 on my laptop yet. I'm waiting for the deb package, so the big hassle should be taken out

Re: strange melting screen when X starts

2000-07-27 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Xiaolan Ling say > Hi, > > I installed the newest XFree86 4.0.1 on my Debian2.1 laptop recently, > and now it works. But there are still some problems. I haven't tried Xfree86 4.0.1 on my laptop yet. I'm waiting for the deb package, so the big hassle should be taken ou