Re: Problem with Debian

2003-01-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Skip Queen [Sun, Jan 19 2003, 07:14:35AM]: > Have been trying to install Debian Woody 3.0 at least 10 times but > unsuccessful. Cannot get either xwindows (have an i810 video card) or > sound to work. It recognizes the cards but video/sound will not work. > Have tried every way of in

X locks also my machine

2003-01-19 Thread norman werner
Hello, during starting X (xdm, startx,X,...) the screen turns black. and the machine don't accepts any commands. no alt+f1 no cntrl+alt+delete no nothing. i'm "using" a fresh debian-woody-stable install (2.4 kernel) on a dell latitude cpi d266xt laptop with neomagic video (is/should be supporte

Re: X locks also my machine

2003-01-19 Thread Paul King
> Hello, > > during starting X (xdm, startx,X,...) > the screen turns black. and the machine don't accepts any commands. > no alt+f1 no cntrl+alt+delete no nothing. > > i'm "using" a fresh debian-woody-stable install (2.4 kernel) on a dell > latitude > cpi d266xt laptop with neomagic video (is/

X 4.1.0 appearing and then disappearing

2003-01-19 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hi :) The relationship I've always had with X could probably best be described as "off-off" ... but today I'm trying to make sense of the beast, and not having much luck The scenario: A fresh bare Debian 3.0 install. Nothing installed via tasksel or dselect. Just "x-window-system-core" and

Re: X 4.1.0 appearing and then disappearing

2003-01-19 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sunday 19 January 2003 6:31 pm, Gavin Hamill wrote: Cancel that. I added a window manager and xterm, and all is well. I hate X. gdh

Re: Problem with Debian

2003-01-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:30:15PM +0100, Eduard Bloch scrawled: > #include > * Skip Queen [Sun, Jan 19 2003, 07:14:35AM]: > > Have been trying to install Debian Woody 3.0 at least 10 times but > > unsuccessful. Cannot get either xwindows (have an i810 video card) or > > sound to work. It recogn

Re: Problem with Debian

2003-01-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Daniel Stone [Mon, Jan 20 2003, 07:42:02AM]: > > They do not ship with an old piece of shit as X (Version 4.1, not > > supporting any modern video card) while our X maintainer prefered to do > > so. > > I didn't see *YOU* volunteering to fix PCI domains on SPARC, or even > doing any p

Re: Problem with Debian

2003-01-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:16:32PM +0100, Eduard Bloch scrawled: > * Daniel Stone [Mon, Jan 20 2003, 07:42:02AM]: > > > > They do not ship with an old piece of shit as X (Version 4.1, not > > > supporting any modern video card) while our X maintainer prefered to do > > > so. > > > > I didn't see

Re: Problem with Debian

2003-01-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Skip Queen [Sun, Jan 19 2003, 07:14:35AM]: > Have been trying to install Debian Woody 3.0 at least 10 times but > unsuccessful. Cannot get either xwindows (have an i810 video card) or > sound to work. It recognizes the cards but video/sound will not work. > Have tried every way of in

X locks also my machine

2003-01-19 Thread norman werner
Hello, during starting X (xdm, startx,X,...) the screen turns black. and the machine don't accepts any commands. no alt+f1 no cntrl+alt+delete no nothing. i'm "using" a fresh debian-woody-stable install (2.4 kernel) on a dell latitude cpi d266xt laptop with neomagic video (is/should be supporte

Re: X locks also my machine

2003-01-19 Thread Paul King
> Hello, > > during starting X (xdm, startx,X,...) > the screen turns black. and the machine don't accepts any commands. > no alt+f1 no cntrl+alt+delete no nothing. > > i'm "using" a fresh debian-woody-stable install (2.4 kernel) on a dell latitude > cpi d266xt laptop with neomagic video (is/sho

X 4.1.0 appearing and then disappearing

2003-01-19 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hi :) The relationship I've always had with X could probably best be described as "off-off" ... but today I'm trying to make sense of the beast, and not having much luck The scenario: A fresh bare Debian 3.0 install. Nothing installed via tasksel or dselect. Just "x-window-system-core" and

Re: X 4.1.0 appearing and then disappearing

2003-01-19 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sunday 19 January 2003 6:31 pm, Gavin Hamill wrote: Cancel that. I added a window manager and xterm, and all is well. I hate X. gdh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with Debian

2003-01-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:30:15PM +0100, Eduard Bloch scrawled: > #include > * Skip Queen [Sun, Jan 19 2003, 07:14:35AM]: > > Have been trying to install Debian Woody 3.0 at least 10 times but > > unsuccessful. Cannot get either xwindows (have an i810 video card) or > > sound to work. It recogn

Re: Problem with Debian

2003-01-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Daniel Stone [Mon, Jan 20 2003, 07:42:02AM]: > > They do not ship with an old piece of shit as X (Version 4.1, not > > supporting any modern video card) while our X maintainer prefered to do > > so. > > I didn't see *YOU* volunteering to fix PCI domains on SPARC, or even > doing any p

Re: Problem with Debian

2003-01-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:16:32PM +0100, Eduard Bloch scrawled: > * Daniel Stone [Mon, Jan 20 2003, 07:42:02AM]: > > > > They do not ship with an old piece of shit as X (Version 4.1, not > > > supporting any modern video card) while our X maintainer prefered to do > > > so. > > > > I didn't see