Re: XFree86 4

2001-11-12 Thread csj
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 05:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, does anyone know where I can get XF86 version 4 servers for > Debian? Thanks. apt-get install xserver-xfree86 -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Re: XFree86-4: No screens found (solution) & another X question

2001-11-08 Thread Horacio de Oro
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 15:49:27 +0100 "Marcel Figuerola Estrada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you should make a .xinitrc file (in your home directory) with the line: gnome-session then execute xinit (and xinit will execute all the commands in .xinitrc). horacio > At last it turned out that deactivati

Re: XFree86-4: No screens found (solution) & another X question

2001-11-08 Thread Marcel Figuerola Estrada
how can I make gnome start when I run X? Thank you Note I run XF86 4.1 on Woody Best wishes, Marcel - Original Message - From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 2:04 AM Subject: Re: XFree86-4: No screens found &

Re: XFree86-4: No screens found

2001-11-07 Thread Jeff
Marcel Figuerola Estrada, 2001-Nov-08 01:48 +0100: > I get a fatal error when trying to start x: no screens found. Another message > says screen(s) found, but none have a usual configuration. > > It's very strange because I specified some screed should be good. I have a > Geforce MX2 Card. I att

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 28 2001, Aaron Traas wrote: > Aren't True Type Fonts Antialiasable? If so, the msttcorefonts > package will (upon installation) log on to MS's web site and > download all of the free (as in beer) "Microsoft Core Fonts" > including Arial, Comic Sans, Times New Roman, Tahoma (my personal > fav

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 28 2001, William Leese wrote: > Oddly enough, at home I have debian unstable running on a machine > with an Ati Rage Pro, which ofcourse is Mach64 based, _with_ the > RENDER extension. Although before XFree86 4.1 there didn't seem to > be support for it (atleast, i never got it work), but n

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 27 2001, Slaven Peles wrote: > On Monday 27 August 2001 15:23, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Is it not possible to implement the RENDER extension with this > > hardware or isn't there demand for it? I'd surely love to get > > my notebook working with one of these. > > Nowhere at XFr

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread Aaron Traas
William Leese wrote: > > > Oddly enough, at home I have debian unstable running on a machine with an > Ati Rage Pro, which ofcourse is Mach64 based, _with_ the RENDER extension. > Although before XFree86 4.1 there didn't seem to be support for it (atleast, > i never got it work), but now RENDER s

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread Slaven Peles
On August 28, 2001 02:16 am, William Leese wrote: > > > > Nowhere at XFree86 web site is explicitely said that there is > > no DRI support > > or render extension for Mach64 based video cards, but > > apparently they are not > > supported. It seems that nobody is willing to make a driver > > for t

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread David Nusinow
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 12:16 am, William Leese wrote: > Not that I use it though... because when i turn on anitaliasing in KDE only > the ugliest fonts seem to be available to all X applications. I'd rather > have everything in a good font (lucida, helvetica) than have to look at an > ugly one t

RE: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread William Leese
> -Original Message- > From: Slaven Peles > Sent: dinsdag 28 augustus 2001 6:50 > To: Rogério Brito; debian > Subject: Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension... > > > On Monday 27 August 2001 15:23, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Aug 27 2001, Slaven Peles wrote

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-27 Thread Slaven Peles
On Monday 27 August 2001 15:23, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Aug 27 2001, Slaven Peles wrote: > > Make sure what chipset your video card use. Some of Rage Mobility > > cards use Mach64 in which case there is no help; there is no render > > support for these. > > Uh, oh! > > I guess that m

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 27 2001, Slaven Peles wrote: > Make sure what chipset your video card use. Some of Rage Mobility > cards use Mach64 in which case there is no help; there is no render > support for these. Uh, oh! I guess that mine is one of those. Mine is an ATI Rage Mobility LT, wi

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-27 Thread Slaven Peles
On Sunday 26 August 2001 21:38, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Aug 25 2001, Aaron Traas wrote: > > I'm running Woody with Xfree86 4, and am wondering what I have to do > > to get the RENDER extension to work, and thus get KDE to anti-alias > > fonts. Can someone point me in the right direction? > > >

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-26 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 25 2001, Aaron Traas wrote: > I'm running Woody with Xfree86 4, and am wondering what I have to do > to get the RENDER extension to work, and thus get KDE to anti-alias > fonts. Can someone point me in the right direction? > > BTW: My graphics adapter is an ATI Rage Mobility Pro, and the s

Re: XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Paul Tansom
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Richard Black wrote: > Did you get the correct driver from: > > http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html > > I'm not sure that it is in the main stream of 4.x yet--the above site has > details > on that though > No, but I've found that the savag_drv.o file is already availabl

Re: XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Richard Black
Did you get the correct driver from: http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html I'm not sure that it is in the main stream of 4.x yet--the above site has details on that though cheers Richard Paul Tansom wrote: > I've just pulled XFree86 4 from testing as part of another package update and > as

Re: XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Pete Harlan
> means everything works. To make it your default: > ln -s /etc/X11/X /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 That should read: ln -s /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X --Pete

Re: XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Sebastiaan
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Paul Tansom wrote: > I've just pulled XFree86 4 from testing as part of another package update and > as far as I can work out it no longer includes the svga server. Am I missing > something? I have a Savage 4 chipset (which quotes a null driver), and all > was > working fi

Re: Xfree86-4 and large default fonts

2001-06-18 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:58:30PM -0500, John Patton wrote: > I've recently upgraded from potato to testing, including the > switch to Xfree86 version 4. Everything is great except that > the default font size for many applications (like netscape > and ddd) is now rather huge. I use 800 x 600 scre

Re: xfree86 4.x and unstable

2001-04-06 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
JACKSON, DEAN posts: > does anyone know of a good place to start for newbie > documentation on setting up the 4.x Xserver? The debian-user mailing list archive at http://www.debian.org/ has a good search interface. Use it and dig... Please do try http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/ and

Re: XFree86 4 Problem!

2001-03-30 Thread Matheson Cameron
Hey, I would open up the XF86Config-4 file and remove the line that says unix/:7100. Also, in the 2.4.x kernels, their is voodoo support you will need to add (I like to have it built in to the kernel, but you could compile it as a module). It's in 'Character Devices'->'Direct Rendering Manager (

Re: xfree86-4 depth question (s3virge)

2001-02-04 Thread Jonathan Chang
Have you tried 15 bits yet? This setting gives me acceptable performance. -- Chia-Sheng Chang (Jonathan Chang) Institute of Communications Engineering College of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan 10617, R.O.C. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xfree86-4 depth question (s3virge)

2001-02-03 Thread wen
alephtnull> debian running unstable, xfree86 version 4, s3virge chipset.. the FAQ in alephtnull> xfree86 docs say that my chipset (s3virge) is fully supported in xfree86-4 in alephtnull> color depths of 1,4,5,8,16,24. I am currently running at 8 bit mode. I want to alephtnull> run at 16 or 24 bi

Re: xfree86 4.x, sony vaio c1xd, neomagic chip

2000-11-21 Thread Joey Hess
Here is a mostly working config file for the sony vaio picturebook. I say mostly because there is a display artifact I see when I start wmaker. Mark Volkevitch thinks it is a bug in the acceleration. -- see shy jo # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexter, the # Debia

Re: xfree86 4.x, sony vaio c1xd, neomagic chip

2000-11-20 Thread Joey Hess
Anders Lennartsson wrote: > I have a Sony C1xD (really neat subnotebook) with a 1024x480 display. > After upgrading from Xfree86 3.3.6 to 4.0.1 I have had problems with the > display size > settings in XF86Config-4. Me too. > Even if I only have one Mode (1024x480) specified, the Neomagic chipse

Re: XFree86 4

2000-04-27 Thread Felix Natter
Paul Kallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -- > -- > I just saw the article on Slashdot about nvidia's beta drivers. Unfortunately, > they are for XF4. Are there any experimental debs anywhere? I certainly would > LOVE to have my TNT2 Ultra actually WORK. look a

Re: XFree86 4

2000-04-25 Thread Brian J. Stults
"Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > Diff between woody and potato? Anything major? Summary? > I think they're virtually the same right now. There have been a few minor upgrades lately to packages in woody that are probably not in potato, but nothing major. It's very unlikely that there would be an

Re: XFree86 4

2000-04-25 Thread Robert L. Harris
Diff between woody and potato? Anything major? Summary? Thus spake Brian J. Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Paul Kallstrom wrote: > > > > -- > > -- > > I just saw the article on Slashdot about nvidia's beta drivers. > > Unfortunately, > > they are for XF4. A

Re: XFree86 4

2000-04-25 Thread Brian J. Stults
Paul Kallstrom wrote: > > -- > -- > I just saw the article on Slashdot about nvidia's beta drivers. Unfortunately, > they are for XF4. Are there any experimental debs anywhere? I certainly would > LOVE to have my TNT2 Ultra actually WORK. > I don't know if there a