Re: NVidia RivaTNT2 M64

2001-06-21 Thread Astrogeek
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:06:58PM -0700, Reza wrote: > Hi there.. > I just wondering if I was right or wrong, I'm using > xserver-svga for my XWindows on my NVidia Riva TNT2 I'm about positive that you must be using xserver-xfree86 v4.0.x for the driver to work. I don't think it works with xse

Can only open one xterm

2001-06-20 Thread Astrogeek
I have a problem which is probably easy to solve, but I'm having a hard time with it. The problem is that I can only open one xterm/aterm/etc at a time under X. If I try to open any more as a user (in group tty) it reports that I can't get permission to do that. My permissions seem to be set ok,

Halfway broken mount halfway solved

2001-05-14 Thread Astrogeek
First, a great big "Thanks!" to Karsten (who has helped me before under a different identity long ago) for getting the information about the floppy onto the list. I was going to skip removing the floppy from fstab since I figured it shouldn't make a difference, seeing how it was hard-disk partiti

Mount is halfway broken

2001-05-10 Thread Astrogeek
On my unstable box, "mount -a" segfaults. It gives the following error (lots of stuff snipped): <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address[...] [...] pmd entry cbb49000: ... pmd not present! [...] I woke up this morning and everything was unmounted.

re: PPPoE misbehaving

2001-01-15 Thread astrogeek
Thanks list, the problem is solved. I built the newest rp-pppoe and this made everything work for me again, so I can let the 2.4.0 kernel wait until I'm comfortable with netfilter. Andrew W.

PPPoE misbehaving

2001-01-15 Thread astrogeek
I recently had ADSL service installed, and I have had some strange problems with it connecting to certain WWW sites. For example: http://tempo.gsu.edu, http://www.mbnanetaccess.com, http://www.aol.com, http://http.us.debian.org(!). Sending email has also stopped working. Almost everything els

X only as root

2000-12-08 Thread Astrogeek
I have been using XF86v4 for a while with no trouble. Recently however, after exiting an X session as a user (working fine) and trying to restart it as the same user I get: > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. All other users except root cannot access X. Root gets in fine. /e