Re: Fwd: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID

2024-01-31 Thread Mike
of issues, since Debian 8 was the last supported > > version of Debian for ppc. Perhaps the bug report he submitted will > > address the problem. > > > > -Stan > > > > Forwarded Message > > Subject: Re: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID &

Re: Fwd: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID

2024-01-30 Thread Stan Johnson
be saying that debian-devel isn't the right > place for these kinds of issues, since Debian 8 was the last supported > version of Debian for ppc. Perhaps the bug report he submitted will > address the problem. > > -Stan > > Forwarded Message > Subjec

Re: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID

2024-01-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Stan, > On Jan 22, 2024, at 4:25 PM, Stan Johnson wrote: > > Please see the last paragrraph of the message; it may provide a clue for > ppc (and probably ppc64). > > Mr. Simon McVittie seems to be saying that debian-devel isn't the right > place for these kinds of issues, since Debian 8 w

Fwd: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID

2024-01-22 Thread Stan Johnson
e bug report he submitted will address the problem. -Stan Forwarded Message Subject: Re: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:49:25 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-de...@lists.debian.org Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:49:01 + From: Simon McVittie To: d

Re: X-Windows Issues on PPC G4 MDD

2024-01-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 09:00 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Sun, 2024-01-21 at 11:27 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > FWIW, I will update my iBook G4 next week and check whether X.Org and co > > still work. > > I have performed a dist-upgrade and while everything works as e

Re: X-Windows Issues on PPC G4 MDD

2024-01-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello, On Sun, 2024-01-21 at 11:27 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > FWIW, I will update my iBook G4 next week and check whether X.Org and co > still work. I have performed a dist-upgrade and while everything works as expected, there is a regression in the Radeon driver with kernel 6.6.13

Fwd: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID

2024-01-21 Thread Stan Johnson
FYI, it appears to be a dependency issue, not directly caused by systemd. Forwarded Message Subject: Re: X-Windows on PPC in Debian SID Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:14:11 -0700 From: Stan Johnson To: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, Colin Watson Hi Colin, On 1/21/24 3:22 PM, Stan

Re: X-Windows Issues on PPC G4 MDD

2024-01-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Stan, On Sat, 2024-01-20 at 12:43 -0700, Stan Johnson wrote: > I realize that systemd is Debian's default init system, and perhaps > X-Windows was always destined to eventually require systemd in Debian. > If that's what has happened, please let me know. I cannot answer

X-Windows Issues on PPC G4 MDD

2024-01-20 Thread Stan Johnson
quot;apt-get dist-upgrade" worked but deleted ~500 MB of X Windows packages, including Xorg, wdm, etc. So the system currently is text-only in Debian SID. This system is using sysvinit instead of systemd, and perhaps that's the problem? I noticed when I tried to reinstall wdm, apt wanted to

X windows and network problems?

2013-05-02 Thread Gabriel Paubert
Hi, I have an x86 laptop and a PPC workstation with Debian testing recently upgraded. Many X application crash whenever I do ssh with X forwarding between them. For example anytime from any of the two machines, starting evince in a remote session (even without a file name) immediately

Re: Re: X Windows Screen Size Issue

2009-02-13 Thread Risto Suominen
Hi Amos, You should try (in CLI) 'fbset -x' and then put the output into Section "Monitor". Attached an xorg.conf that's been working on a PowerMac 7500 with 4 MB VRAM. Risto xorg.conf-mac7500 Description: Binary data

Re: Re: X Windows Screen Size Issue

2009-02-13 Thread Amos Stibolt
Giving the lspci command yielded the following: "Non-vga unclassified device: Apple Computer Inc. Control Video" with a vendor:device ID of 106b:0003. Thanks for the input. Amos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: X Windows Screen Size Issue

2009-02-12 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:47:17 -0600 Amos Stibolt wrote: > As a final bit of information, the video driver on this machine is > whatever Apple included standard when it built this machine, because > of this, I did not know which driver to select during configuration, > and used "fbdev" as it

X Windows Screen Size Issue

2009-02-12 Thread Amos Stibolt
I am running Debian on a PowerMac 8500/120, and because of hardware limitations, have been trying to run the lightest GUI desktop possible. I used "apt-get install xorg icewm" to successfully install those programs. icewm will run on the machine, but I am frustrated by being unable to get

X-windows crashes with a S3 Virge PCI card in a beige Macintosh G3 PowerPC

2005-03-08 Thread Nick Jenkins
Hi, I'm trying to run X-windows on a S3 Virge PCI card in a beige Macintosh G3 PowerPC, and the O/S is Ubuntu 4.10. (The reason I'm not using the onboard video is that I was trying to get a dual display setup, using the onboard video, plus the S3. I figured it would be easier to firs

Graceful exit from TWM/X Windows?

2005-03-03 Thread vze26m98
Hi all- I'm stuck in TWM/X Windows because, I believe, I forgot to add the -exitonFail parameter to an xconsole entry in my .xsession file. So I'm staring at my root window and a console window that says "Couldn't open console." Nothing more. Doesn't seem like I

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-04 Thread Ed Sutherland
On Friday 04 June 2004 17:42, Luis Sanjuán wrote: > > My point was that > > until Debian offers auto-detection of video and easy configuration of X, > > it would be a good idea to offer a central reference point for users > > seeking a configuration file that works with their system. This lists > >

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-04 Thread Luis Sanjuán
> My point was that > until Debian offers auto-detection of video and easy configuration of X, it > would be a good idea to offer a central reference point for users seeking a > configuration file that works with their system. This lists goes a long way > in centralizing help for new Debian use

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-04 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to Ed Sutherland, on Fri, 4 Jun 2004 02:37:01 +, >On Thursday 03 June 2004 18:40, Cedric Pradalier wrote: >> According to Ed Sutherland, on Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:27:16 +, > >> >I tried localhost:631 from Konqueror and Lynx...both no-go. Lynx >> >reports "Unable to connect to remote

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
On Friday 04 June 2004 03:38, Lakin Wecker wrote: > Once again, you should be more careful and reply to the list in order to > greater benifit the community. Ah! I had been using "R" to reply in Kmail, believing it automagically gets routed through the list. I now see that "L" is what I need to

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Lakin Wecker
> I've discovered how to control greyscale printing and page headers from > within > the CUPS printing interface within KDE. Being able to specify draft mode > would let me economize my ink, especially important with these inkjet > printers. > > Ed Once again, you should be more careful and

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Lakin Wecker
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 20:37, Ed Sutherland wrote: > On Thursday 03 June 2004 18:40, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > > According to Ed Sutherland, on Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:27:16 +, > > > >I tried localhost:631 from Konqueror and Lynx...both no-go. Lynx > > >reports "Unable to connect to remote host." Ko

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
On Thursday 03 June 2004 18:40, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > According to Ed Sutherland, on Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:27:16 +, > >I tried localhost:631 from Konqueror and Lynx...both no-go. Lynx > >reports "Unable to connect to remote host." Konqueror says "Error while > >loading "http://localhost:631";

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
On Thursday 03 June 2004 17:26, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:02:44PM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > I do believe Debian, albeit enjoying the exclusivity that comes from > > being one of the most difficult Linux distros to configure, would do > > greatly by creating a central rep

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to Ed Sutherland, on Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:27:16 +, >On Thursday 03 June 2004 17:26, Sven Luther wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:02:44PM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > >> > My next major project is setting up CUPS so that I can use my USB >> > printer. >> >> Which mostly works out o

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Lakin Wecker
> > Which mostly works out of the box. You install the packages (cupsys, the > > cupsomatic/foomatic stuff, etc, maybe a task or meta package for this > > should be good), you browse localhost:631, and add a printer. 5 mouse > > clicks, and voila your printer is working (well works fine for my > >

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
On Thursday 03 June 2004 17:26, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:02:44PM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > My next major project is setting up CUPS so that I can use my USB > > printer. > > Which mostly works out of the box. You install the packages (cupsys, the > cupsomatic/foomatic

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:02:44PM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > I do believe Debian, albeit enjoying the exclusivity that comes from being > one > of the most difficult Linux distros to configure, would do greatly by > creating a central repository of working config files: especially those > c

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Ed Sutherland
On Thursday 03 June 2004 05:28, Sean Schertell wrote: > Congratulations! How do you like it? I'm not sure if this will fix your > scroll wheel or not but I think you need this in the mouse section of your > XF86Config-4: Both mouse options cause X to fail. I'll put up with no wheel. While Debian

Re: Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-03 Thread Sean Schertell
Congratulations! How do you like it? I'm not sure if this will fix your scroll wheel or not but I think you need this in the mouse section of your XF86Config-4: -- Option "Buttons" "5" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" ---

Debian and X-Windows

2004-06-02 Thread Ed Sutherland
Just wanted to report I have X up and running on my Debian system. I did a Googled for an iMac config and used it. I'm now using KMail. One question: how do I enable support for my wheel mouse from Logitech? Thanks. Ed

Re: Translucent X Windows

2003-08-25 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On 25 Aug 2003 at 12:54, Kristian Peters wrote: > Maybe Xouvert will push these things in the future ? Would be nice to > see some code from them actually. They haven't released it yet. The first code Xouvert is going to release will be a version of the X source tree as it is, not a package by

Re: Translucent X Windows

2003-08-25 Thread Kristian Peters
"J. Javier Maestro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Mmmm... I understand what you are saying, although my C programming is > still quite *bad* (heh, it suckz big time!). In any case, I'll have a > look.. at the end, my microprocessors and embedded ystems might come > handy!! :-) Maybe Xouvert will

Re: Translucent X Windows

2003-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 07:52:06PM +1000, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > On Aug Sun 24 2003 23:34, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 20:19, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > > > > > > Here, there is a guy that is working on a nice hack for the X windows to > &

Re: Translucent X Windows

2003-08-25 Thread J. Javier Maestro
On Aug Mon 25 2003 00:41, Anders Lövgren wrote: > On Sunday 24 August 2003 20.19, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > Here, there is a guy that is working on a nice hack for the X windows to > > support transparencies like MacOSX: > > > >

Re: Translucent X Windows

2003-08-25 Thread J. Javier Maestro
On Aug Sun 24 2003 23:34, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 20:19, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > > > > Here, there is a guy that is working on a nice hack for the X windows to > > support transparencies like MacOSX: > > > > http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.

Re: Translucent X Windows

2003-08-25 Thread J. Javier Maestro
On Aug Sun 24 2003 22:40, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > > How difficult is to rebuild the X server?? XXDDD I mean, library > > dependencies, and the make actually working... coz I wouldn't mind > > giving that hack a try in my laptop! > > > > Anyone w

Re: Translucent X Windows

2003-08-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 00:49, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > El lun, 25-08-2003 a las 00:37, Michel Dänzer escribió: > > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 23:57, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > > > El dom, 24-08-2003 a las 23:34, Michel Dänzer escribió: > > > [...] > > > > > > > If you want to try a cool alternat

Re: Translucent X Windows

2003-08-24 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
El lun, 25-08-2003 a las 00:37, Michel Dänzer escribió: > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 23:57, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > > El dom, 24-08-2003 a las 23:34, Michel Dänzer escribió: > > [...] > > > > > If you want to try a cool alternative X server, I recommend XDirectFB. > > > It also does real transluc

Re: Translucent X Windows

2003-08-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 23:57, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > El dom, 24-08-2003 a las 23:34, Michel Dänzer escribió: > [...] > > > If you want to try a cool alternative X server, I recommend XDirectFB. > > It also does real translucency (although that's not yet accelerated on > > Radeons) and other

Re: Translucent X Windows

2003-08-24 Thread Anders Lövgren
On Sunday 24 August 2003 20.19, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > Hi guys, > > Here, there is a guy that is working on a nice hack for the X windows to > support transparencies like MacOSX: > > http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~unk6/transluxent/ > > He gives a binary (I guess f

Re: Translucent X Windows

2003-08-24 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
El dom, 24-08-2003 a las 23:34, Michel Dänzer escribió: [...] > If you want to try a cool alternative X server, I recommend XDirectFB. > It also does real translucency (although that's not yet accelerated on > Radeons) and other nice things. Do you know if there is a plan to add native alpha chan

Re: Translucent X Windows

2003-08-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 20:19, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > > Here, there is a guy that is working on a nice hack for the X windows to > support transparencies like MacOSX: > > http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~unk6/transluxent/ > > He gives a binary (I guess for i386) and s

Re: Translucent X Windows

2003-08-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > How difficult is to rebuild the X server?? XXDDD I mean, library > dependencies, and the make actually working... coz I wouldn't mind > giving that hack a try in my laptop! > > Anyone with knowledge on recompiling X? XXDD :-) If you have the `corre

Translucent X Windows

2003-08-24 Thread J. Javier Maestro
Hi guys, Here, there is a guy that is working on a nice hack for the X windows to support transparencies like MacOSX: http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~unk6/transluxent/ He gives a binary (I guess for i386) and source, but the source requires the XWindow source tree. Now... the question is... 8

Re: I can´t configure X - Windows on my iMac!

2003-06-13 Thread Frank Murphy
> I installed through TASKSEL and when I rebooted the machine, the > screen just flickered two or three times, went blank and gave me the > command line prompt. with a message of something like "no core devices > identified". I guess it is a problem with the XF86Config file. Look at the XFr

Re: I can´t configure X - Windows on my iMac!

2003-06-12 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Leonidas Brasileiro wrote: > I just installed Debian (Woody) on my 233 MHz iMac > Now I just can´t start X-Windows! > I installed through TASKSEL and when I rebooted the machine, the > screen just flickered two or three times, went blank and

I can´t configure X - Windows on my iMac!

2003-06-12 Thread Leonidas Brasileiro
Hello there, I just installed Debian (Woody) on my 233 MHz iMac and managed to configure yaboot so it can boot both Debian and MacOS (Yeah! First Victory!) Now I just can´t start X-Windows! I installed through TASKSEL and when I rebooted the machine, the screen just flickered

Re: Slow performance in X Windows

2003-05-28 Thread dylan
have you tried using a light-weight WM such as Fluxbox, BlackBoc, IceWM, ect? I use fluxbox on my 8500, with its built-in video, and it seems to work pretty well. (passing the argument: video=ofonly) and running X @ 1024x768x15 -dylan on 03.5.27 11:10 PM, Mich Lanners at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was r

Re: Slow performance in X Windows

2003-05-28 Thread Mich Lanners
On 27 May, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echoed through cyberspace: > I have had Debian 3.0r1 (woody) running on my beige G3 (333Mhz, 512Mb > Ram) pretty smoothly for the past few weeks after giving up on the CD > install and doing everything via http (thank God for fast .edu > connection

Slow performance in X Windows

2003-05-27 Thread mushis
Hi All, I have had Debian 3.0r1 (woody) running on my beige G3 (333Mhz, 512Mb Ram) pretty smoothly for the past few weeks after giving up on the CD install and doing everything via http (thank God for fast .edu connections!). But I have noticed that both KDe and Gnome run very slowly... I wonde

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-04-03 Thread befu
XFree86 doesn't support accel EndMode Now I understand, that the colour bit depth of the Debian console can be and has to be lower than the bit depth of the x-windowing system. The mclk value of 95 is the highest one I can use. Values below 75 will result in line artefaxts in x-windows. Thanks befu

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-04-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 14:06, befu wrote: > mode "1024x768-60" > # D: 64.666 MHz, H: 48.115 kHz, V: 59.696 Hz > geometry 1024 768 1024 1020 32 > timings 15464 144 40 29 3 136 6 > rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24 > endmode For some reasons, you set your console to 32 bits mode. I never had c

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-04-03 Thread befu
>> >> If you mean to insert "fbset -accel" "false" into the Section "Device" in >> the XF86Config-4 file like: > > No, he meant to run `fbset -accel false' on the console. > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert Thanks Geert for your clarification! I installed fbset and run `fbset -accel false', bu

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-04-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, befu wrote: > > On Mit, 2003-04-02 at 05:05, befu wrote: > >> 3.) With this new kernel I can't see any cursor on my black text screen. > >> How > >> do I get my cursor back? It is annoying to guess where the cursor could be > >> and input text on the command line or in pico. >

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-04-02 Thread befu
> On Mit, 2003-04-02 at 05:05, befu wrote: >> >> 3.) With this new kernel I can't see any cursor on my black text screen. How >> do I get my cursor back? It is annoying to guess where the cursor could be >> and input text on the command line or in pico. > > Does disabling acceleration with fbset

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-04-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2003-04-02 at 05:05, befu wrote: > > 3.) With this new kernel I can't see any cursor on my black text screen. How > do I get my cursor back? It is annoying to guess where the cursor could be > and input text on the command line or in pico. Does disabling acceleration with fbset -accel fa

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-04-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
> 2.) With this kernel I can finally run the ati driver instead of the fbdev > driver (which was the only driver able to run on kernel 2.4.18). > I just get some 3-5 seconds of "erupting colourful clouds" on my screen when > starting the kde environment with startx just before the light grey screen

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-04-01 Thread befu
do without? TIA befu > > No the previous kernel was the 2.2.20 kernel that I have on my floppies. > With these floppies I installed the whole system, but wasn't able to run > x-windows (with none of the drivers (ati, fbdev and the 10 others). The most > promising however wa

RE: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-24 Thread Peter M. Lemmen
> To: befu > Cc: Michel Danzer; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help! > > > > > So the previous kernel was also a 2.4.18 release? > > > > > > > No the previous kernel was the 2.2.20 kernel that I have on my floppies.

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-24 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Hallo Ben, Michael and Michel, > > My PowerBook G3 model is the first one that was produced after the original > G3 but with a modern motherboard and CPU. It was made until July 1998 and > was available with 3 CPU speeds (233, 250 and 292MHz). During September 1998 > the second generation came

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 11:34, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Trying out some different settings of the XF86Config-4 file with: > > > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > > > I found the only working driver was the "fbdev" driver, [...] Does the ati driver still fail the same way? If so, it's proba

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > So the previous kernel was also a 2.4.18 release? > > > > No the previous kernel was the 2.2.20 kernel that I have on my floppies. That one might have been suffering from the PCI overlap (I'd need to see a lspci -vv output from the 2.2 kernel to be sure). Your 2.4 lspci dump shows no resource

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-24 Thread befu
only without >> installation). > > So the previous kernel was also a 2.4.18 release? > No the previous kernel was the 2.2.20 kernel that I have on my floppies. With these floppies I installed the whole system, but wasn't able to run x-windows (with none of the drivers (ati, fbdev and

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-24 Thread befu
> What powerbook G3 is this ? (what does lspci says ?) > > The first generation has the same video chip as 2400/3400 > powerbook, that is a c&t 65535 chip which uses a different > driver. I don't know if the XFree driver for that chip works > properly for us though. (I don't have the hw). > > Ben

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
> With Michels advise I found a new 2.4.18 kernel with: > > apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4.*powerpc > > and downloaded it with: > > apt-get install -d kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc (-d for download only without > installation). So the previous kernel was also a 2.4.18 release? > Trying out some

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
What powerbook G3 is this ? (what does lspci says ?) The first generation has the same video chip as 2400/3400 powerbook, that is a c&t 65535 chip which uses a different driver. I don't know if the XFree driver for that chip works properly for us though. (I don't have the hw). Ben.

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-22 Thread befu
der in my system folder of my MacOS9 partition, BootX was able to boot into the new kernel. Trying out some different settings of the XF86Config-4 file with: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 I found the only working driver was the "fbdev" driver, needing no System RAM, but needing /dev/inp

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-21 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Because I am a newbee and understand that recompiling the 2.2.20 kernel > would involve a lot of effort and time, I would like to know if the original > kernel in use can work with my Wallstreet by just making some adjustments in > the XF86Config-4 file or not. Nope, in the case I described X ca

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 07:47:21AM -0800, Herb Howe wrote: > I'm having a similar problem getting XF86 working under Debian 2.2.20 on a > Powerbook 3400/G3 (the model just before the Wallstreet). The problem is > almost certainly the XF86Config-4 file. I too have tried numerous settings > and confi

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2003-03-20 at 15:01, befu wrote: > >>> (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Generic Video Card". > >>> (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 0:17:0 could not be detected! > >> > >> This could mean that the XFree86 version is too old to recognize the > >> chip, but... > >> > >>> (WW) INV

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-20 Thread Herb Howe
I'm having a similar problem getting XF86 working under Debian 2.2.20 on a Powerbook 3400/G3 (the model just before the Wallstreet). The problem is almost certainly the XF86Config-4 file. I too have tried numerous settings and configurations using the Debian configuration routine without success. D

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-20 Thread befu
>>> (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Generic Video Card". >>> (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 0:17:0 could not be detected! >> >> This could mean that the XFree86 version is too old to recognize the >> chip, but... >> >>> (WW) INVALID MEM ALLOCATION b: 0x8200 e: 0x82ff cor

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Generic Video Card". > > (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 0:17:0 could not be detected! > > This could mean that the XFree86 version is too old to recognize the > chip, but... > > > (WW) INVALID MEM ALLOCATION b: 0x8200 e: 0x82ff correctin

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Is it possible, that the controller isn't supported by this kernel? > > Mach64s indeed tend to be sensitive to the kernel and/or boot method. > Someone else with the same or similar hardware will have to fill in the > details. Is the LT-G supported by XFree yet? Michael

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2003-03-18 at 16:34, befu wrote: > >> Section "Device" > >> Identifier"ATI Rage" > >> Driver"r128" > > > > Your chip isn't a Rage128, try Driver "ati". The log in your bug report > > seemed to show that though. > > > >> BusID"PCI:0:17:0" > >> VideoRam

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-18 Thread befu
> On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 14:06, befu wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 04:45, befu wrote: I have a problem installing XFree86 on my PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet, May 1998, 256MB). I newly installed the kernel v.2.2.20-powermac through floppy disks. I downloaded the X window packa

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 14:06, befu wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 04:45, befu wrote: > >> > >> I have a problem installing XFree86 on my PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet, May > >> 1998, 256MB). I newly installed the kernel v.2.2.20-powermac through floppy > >> disks. I downloaded the X window package

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-17 Thread befu
Hi Michel Dänzer, > On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 04:45, befu wrote: >> >> I have a problem installing XFree86 on my PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet, May >> 1998, 256MB). I newly installed the kernel v.2.2.20-powermac through floppy >> disks. I downloaded the X window package (v. 4.1.0-16) with tasksel. Now >>

Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 04:45, befu wrote: > > I have a problem installing XFree86 on my PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet, May > 1998, 256MB). I newly installed the kernel v.2.2.20-powermac through floppy > disks. I downloaded the X window package (v. 4.1.0-16) with tasksel. Now > when I boot up (using Boot

No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!

2003-03-16 Thread befu
Hi, I have a problem installing XFree86 on my PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet, May 1998, 256MB). I newly installed the kernel v.2.2.20-powermac through floppy disks. I downloaded the X window package (v. 4.1.0-16) with tasksel. Now when I boot up (using BootX), X doesn't start but gives the following err

Re: Beige G3 X Windows

2003-03-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:33:27PM -0500, Shannon Neumann wrote: > Has anyone had success getting X Windows set up on a beige G3? What > settings are required? Any help would be appreciated. > > Shannon Neumann > owner, Neumannweb Computers > EML: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Beige G3 X Windows

2003-03-09 Thread Solignac
Le dimanche 09 mars vers 18:33 Shannon Neumann écrivît : Hello, > Has anyone had success getting X Windows set up on a beige G3? Yes (ain't it fun?) > What settings are required? Any help would be appreciated. This subject has already been discussed several times here, for exa

Beige G3 X Windows

2003-03-09 Thread Shannon Neumann
Title: Message Has anyone had success getting X Windows set up on a beige G3?  What settings are required?  Any help would be appreciated.   Shannon Neumann owner, Neumannweb Computers EML: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://www.neumannweb.net PH: 260.483.7086

Re: fstab and volume types (was Re: X-windows question)

2003-02-09 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:21:50PM -0800, Nathan S. wrote: > Hmm, I never realized that the kernel had the ability to read hfs > volumes - it seems to me that the hfsutils and hfsplus documentation > said that it didn't. Was the hfs line in my /proc/filesystems file > added by the hfsutils package

Re: fstab and volume types (was Re: X-windows question)

2003-02-08 Thread Florian F.
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 21:59:58 +0100 "Florian F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 19:21:50 -0800 (PST) > "Nathan S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Another question, is there any way to mount an audio cd so that it > > can be played by a media player (it seems this is the way xmms

Re: fstab and volume types (was Re: X-windows question)

2003-02-08 Thread Florian F.
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 19:21:50 -0800 (PST) "Nathan S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another question, is there any way to mount an audio cd so that it can > be played by a media player (it seems this is the way xmms would like > to handle things)? Is an audio cd iso9660, because when I try>

fstab and volume types (was Re: X-windows question)

2003-02-07 Thread Nathan S.
--- Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:38:50PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: > > > > Another question... how I mount a HFS particion on Linux? I > installed > > both hfsplus and hfsutils! > > mount -t hfs > > You can put it in /etc/fstab also Hmm, I never reali

Re: X-windows question

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Sandine
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 17:06, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:38:50PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: > > > > Another question... how I mount a HFS particion on Linux? I installed > > both hfsplus and hfsutils! > > mount -t hfs > > You can put it in /etc/fstab also Oh yeah I did not

Re: X-windows question

2003-02-07 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:38:50PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: > > Another question... how I mount a HFS particion on Linux? I installed > both hfsplus and hfsutils! mount -t hfs You can put it in /etc/fstab also -- "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what we should do with s

Re: X-windows question

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Sandine
Hi, On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 11:38, Pedro Alves wrote: > Another question... how I mount a HFS particion on Linux? I installed > both hfsplus and hfsutils! You can learn this by reading hpmount(1) and the other man pages referenced at the bottom of hpmount(1). Usage of utilities in hfsplus is biza

X-windows question

2003-02-07 Thread Pedro Alves
Dear friends After sucessfully installing Debian 3.0, Xfree86 and all the applications desidered, I notice that all the applications of X have menus with letter sizes than for instance the menus of Window Maker manage, that I use as default Window manager. There is any way to reduce the size

Re: Installing X windows environment

2003-02-05 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 02:02:35PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: > Dear Friends > > After very successfully intalling debian 3.0 in my Powerbook 3400c, and > using taskset to download all the deb packages I wanted, I don't have x > windows running nor at any time I made th

Installing X windows environment

2003-02-05 Thread Pedro Alves
Dear Friends After very successfully intalling debian 3.0 in my Powerbook 3400c, and using taskset to download all the deb packages I wanted, I don't have x windows running nor at any time I made the configuration of X windows, using for instance "anXious". How can I do

Re: X - Windows on G4 PowerBook

2002-09-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-09-10 at 13:05, C. Bryan Daniels wrote: > Many thanks to Evan Martin and Michel Danzer for helping me get X running on > my G4 powerbook. Ended up with a new kernel, migrating to sid and installing > Evan and Michel's XFree86 packages. All works with 'simple' apt-get. Glad to hear it

X - Windows on G4 PowerBook

2002-09-10 Thread C. Bryan Daniels
Many thanks to Evan Martin and Michel Danzer for helping me get X running on my G4 powerbook. Ended up with a new kernel, migrating to sid and installing Evan and Michel's XFree86 packages. All works with 'simple' apt-get. Thanks,

Re: X -Windows on G4 PowerBook

2002-09-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Son, 2002-09-08 at 23:50, C.Bryan Daniels wrote: > In order to get X windows up on my G4 with a Radeon 7500 video card, I > need to install a newer XFree86--either Michel Daenzer's DRI package of > else Branden's 4.2 package. These packages are not part of the regular >

Re: X -Windows on G4 PowerBook

2002-09-08 Thread Evan Martin
C.Bryan Daniels wrote: In order to get X windows up on my G4 with a Radeon 7500 video card, I need to install a newer XFree86--either Michel Daenzer's DRI package of else Branden's 4.2 package. These packages are not part of the regular Debian distributions. I continue to be stumped

X -Windows on G4 PowerBook

2002-09-08 Thread C . Bryan Daniels
In order to get X windows up on my G4 with a Radeon 7500 video card, I need to install a newer XFree86--either Michel Daenzer's DRI package of else Branden's 4.2 package. These packages are not part of the regular Debian distributions. I continue to be stumped on how to do this. I

Re: need help with X windows on imac running woody

2002-07-26 Thread Russell Hires
wrote: > On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 17:57, Jack R Lawler wrote: > > Has anyone gotten X windows working on a G3 iMac running > > woody? I upgraded to 3.0 from 2.2_r5. The output from > > startx does not seem to show any fatal errors but the X > > windows screen is black

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