Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 22 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Why don't they make a debian version with OpenBSD's kernel? It seems to > support most hardware, with a BSD licence. But then we can't run the > nVidia drivers, and perhaps not watch flash movies. Oh well. That would require someone who w

Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 07:17:20PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:11:16PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:09:43PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > If it has been backported to Etch, Lenny is so close now that I can > > Mmmm there is a thr

Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 22 2008, Chris Bannister wrote: > Mmmm there is a thread about DFSG violations in the kernel on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] which may delay the actual release. Looks like there > will have to be a GR to sort it out. > > I hope they don't "rip out" *too* much hardware support. :) The

Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:11:16PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:09:43PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Apparently nspluginwrapper allows flash on amd64. > > Last I checked with the maintainer, not for Etch amd64. Yes for Lenny. Ahhh! of course. At least you are

Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:09:43PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:42:34PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I have one video card and one monitor, running Etch amd64 with an > > Etch-i386 chroot for flash. I log in from the VT and run startx to get > > X going. I run

Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:42:34PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I have one video card and one monitor, running Etch amd64 with an > Etch-i386 chroot for flash. I log in from the VT and run startx to get > X going. I run icewm. > > I have my usual username for regular use and web browsing wit

[SOLVED] Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
> If I try: > /usr/bin/startx -- -dpi 100 :1 > > then I just get the gray X screen and no window manager running. I had them in the wrong order. This works: /usr/bin/startx -- :0 -dpi 100 for one user and /usr/bin/startx -- :1 -dpi 100 for the other u

resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
get a normal X display looking as it should. Now log in as the other user and run /usr/bin/startx -- :1 and everything is a bit larger (fonts and icons are a bit bigger). Actually, even with only one user, if I run /usr/bin/startx -- :1 (or 0) then everything is larger than

Re: startx -- :1, xinit

2001-07-15 Thread Branden Robinson
Please direct questions like this to debian-user. On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:51:42AM -0400, Paul wrote: > Hello branden, I have a question about the startx script that you > modified. Would it affect xhost in any way?? No. > I recently installed the xbase-common package and replaced the startx

Re: startx -- :1

2001-07-11 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Kent West wrote: > harsha wrote: > > gave startx -- :1 > > but this is what happens <...> > I noticed this a few months ago on my machines also (running Sid). I > don't know if the startx script/sequence is broken, or if the procedure &g

Re: startx -- :1

2001-07-11 Thread harsha
hi, appending vt and the number did the trick. thanks for the help kent and robert. BTW i am using the drivers for the nvidia site. regards harsha > startx -- :1 vt8 > > I hope it's just a bug and not a new method; I know it's been filed as a > bug, bu

Re: startx -- :1

2001-07-10 Thread Kent West
harsha wrote: hi, wanted to start another x session gave startx -- :1 but this is what happens waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1024x768" .. .. .. .. I am at loss why this is happening. any clues would be of

RE: startx -- :1

2001-07-10 Thread Phan, Robert
-Original Message- From: harsha To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 7/10/01 3:43 PM Subject: startx -- :1 hi, wanted to start another x session gave startx -- :1 but this is what happens waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting

startx -- :1

2001-07-10 Thread harsha
hi, wanted to start another x session gave startx -- :1 but this is what happens waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1024x768" .. .. .. .. I am at loss why this is happening. any clues would be of great help. regards harsha

Re: X :1 works but startx -- :1 doesn't anymore

2001-06-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 31 May 2001 23:31:20 -0300, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > hi, i've recently updated my distro (sid) and my startx doesn't seem to > accept any params for the server anymore, i can start the server in many > virtual ttys but only with X :a (a= number), but not doing a startx

Re: X :1 works but startx -- :1 doesn't anymore

2001-05-31 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:43:57PM -0300, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: : :i've jsut fixed it i downgraded from xbase-clients_4.0.3-4_i386.deb 2 :xbase-clients_4.0.3-3_i386.deb did you file a bug report? see http://bugs.debian.org for howto info

Re: X :1 works but startx -- :1 doesn't anymore

2001-05-31 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
n start the server in many > virtual ttys but only with X :a (a= number), but not doing a startx -- :1 > > it's rare, for now i'm starting the server and rederecting the client WM. > > any help is apreciated > thanks in advance

X :1 works but startx -- :1 doesn't anymore

2001-05-31 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
hi, i've recently updated my distro (sid) and my startx doesn't seem to accept any params for the server anymore, i can start the server in many virtual ttys but only with X :a (a= number), but not doing a startx -- :1 it's rare, for now i'm starting the server and rederecting

"startx -- :1" suddenly fails but "startx -- :1 -dpi 75" works in woody?

2001-03-23 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, I use an up-to-date woody. Some of these days (sorry, can't give the upgrade date) startx -- :1 started to fail: I use to change to root from my user account within X (running on display 0) with "su -" and then I run startx -- :1. However, this suddenly doesn't work