Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-10 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 08/10/11 03:56, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> >> [...] >> > It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples > time? Why is that wasting anyones time.  Some people read it here some >

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/10/11 13:52, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > > [...] snipped > >> An alternative approach to a similar ends is available in KDE - use a >> very large desktop and "zoom" into particular areas. Alternatively just >> use more virtual desktops. > > Thanks for the nice summary

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: [...] snipped > An alternative approach to a similar ends is available in KDE - use a > very large desktop and "zoom" into particular areas. Alternatively just > use more virtual desktops. Thanks for the nice summary of where things stand and what to do about them. The

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Sven Joachim writes: > The nv driver is gone and it's not coming back unless somebody > reintroduces it, which is highly unlikely. If you think about doing > that yourself: http://bugs.debian.org/383465 is the nut you have to > crack before the ftp-masters will let this driver in. It only came

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/10/11 03:56, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > > [...] > It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples time? >>> >>> Why is that wasting anyones time. Some people read it here some >>> there, if they don't like the subject or content they move

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-07 19:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Do you have any recommendation? On gentoo I was using the `nv' driver >> that I do not see available for debian. > > I'm using testing, there's no nv driver for testing, but I'm using X >

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Ralf Mardorf writes: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Do you have any recommendation? On gentoo I was using the `nv' driver >> that I do not see available for debian. > > I'm using testing, there's no nv driver for testing, but I'm using X > from stable. > > On my te

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Do you have any recommendation? On gentoo I was using the `nv' driver > that I do not see available for debian. I'm using testing, there's no nv driver for testing, but I'm using X from stable. On my testing it's xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: [...] >>> It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples >>> time? >> >> Why is that wasting anyones time. Some people read it here some >> there, if they don't like the subject or content they move on. > Nice attitude. I'm not really sure why that

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 07/10/11 02:44, Harry Putnam wrote: [NOTE: This post or very similar was also posted to gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.] It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples time? Only a waste of time *if* you read both lists... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/10/11 15:21, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> On 07/10/11 02:44, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> [NOTE: This post or very similar was also posted to >>> gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.] >> >> It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples >> time? > > Why is th

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: > On 07/10/11 02:44, Harry Putnam wrote: >> [NOTE: This post or very similar was also posted to >> gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.] > > It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples time? Why is that wasting anyones time. Some people read it here some t

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/10/11 02:44, Harry Putnam wrote: > [NOTE: This post or very similar was also posted to > gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.] It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples time? So no point in me making suggestions - my tests were done with settings that are probably no longe

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-06 22:48 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >>> Also does the Nouveau driver prevent other drivers such as nv from >>> loading. >> >> Nouveau needs Kernel Modesetting, and both nv and vesa are not >> compatible with that and will refuse to load if the nouveau.ko kernel

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Sven Joachim writes: >> Also does the Nouveau driver prevent other drivers such as nv from >> loading. > > Nouveau needs Kernel Modesetting, and both nv and vesa are not > compatible with that and will refuse to load if the nouveau.ko kernel > module is loaded with modesetting enabled (default).

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-06 20:00 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> It might have been easier to just restore the whole file. And >> http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 might have some >> additional useful information for you. > > I didn't see discussion of a bug that causes

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Sven Joachim writes: [...] > It might have been easier to just restore the whole file. And > http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 might have some > additional useful information for you. I didn't see discussion of a bug that causes the mouse NOT to pan out into a Virtual screen siz

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-06 17:44 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: > > Single user machine running Debian (wheezy) 3.0.0-1-686-pae > Graphics card: Nvidia FX 5700 LE > > At present X is setup without any xorg.conf. Its pretty much the > defaults after install of new install medai, other than I've taken > gd

`Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-06 Thread Harry Putnam
[NOTE: This post or very similar was also posted to gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.] Setup: Single user machine running Debian (wheezy) 3.0.0-1-686-pae Graphics card: Nvidia FX 5700 LE At present X is setup without any xorg.conf. Its pretty much the defaults after install of new install medai, ot