setting up X under Slackware
Hello all,
I am having some difficulty setting up X windows in a Slackware system. Under Win95/98 my video card can handle 24bit resolution. However when I try to tell the xf86config in Linux utility that this is the res. that I wish to use, it reports errors when I enter 'startx'. Apparently it is trying to use the Generic VGA driver/library rather than the SVGA one. How can I make sure I have the SVGA drivers installed and that these are the ones I am using in the setup process?
Thanks,
Matthew Stapleton
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Quoted 9 lines · Matthew Stapleton
Hello all,
I am having some difficulty setting up X windows in a Slackware system. Under Win95/98 my video card can handle 24bit resolution. However when I try to tell the xf86config in Linux utility that this is the res. that I wish to use, it reports errors when I enter 'startx'. Apparently it is trying to use the Generic VGA driver/library rather than the SVGA one. How can I make sure I have the SVGA drivers installed and that these are the ones I am using in the setup process?
To get a decent answer to your questions, you're going to have to tell us a bit more, such as ...
1. What version of Slackware?
2. What version of XFree86? (The handling of drivers changed radically between 3.x.x and 4.x.x.)
3. What errors get reported when startx runs?
4. What video card (make and model, and how much RAM)?
5. What monitor (or, more to the point, what characteristics -- size, vsync, hsync)?
6. What dot resolution (1024x768, 650x480, etc.) are you setting as the default? What alternates are you requesting?
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Quoted 1 line · Ray Olszewski
3. What errors get reported when startx runs?
To see these, you are probably going to need to do something like:
startx >~/oops 2>&1
~/oops should then give the X version, driver used, and some interesting error messages.
If your shell is bash, you can use
startx &>~/oops
Lawson
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Quoted 5 lines · On Friday 16 August 2002 13:12, [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 1 line · Ray Olszewski
3. What errors get reported when startx runs?
To see these, you are probably going to need to do something like:
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startx >~/oops 2>&1
~/oops should then give the X version, driver used, and some interesting error messages.
If your shell is bash, you can use
startx &>~/oops
Chances are he needs not to do this, newer versions of Xfree create a log automaticly into /var/log
I think it was XFree86-4.0 when that was added as standard.
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Lawson
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Unknown User/Alias 'Marc'
In reply to [email protected]Hello all. After a few weeks of lurking on the list I can finally turn to you
for some quick advice. The other night as I was looking through my sendmail aliases file (/etc/aliases), I noticed a perculiar line at the end of it that read:
--begin--
# Person who should get root's mail
#root: marc
--end--
All I want to know is who is this user/alias marc? A quick look at the /etc/passwd, shadow, group, gshadow... didn't turn up any results, which puzzles me. Funny thing is I get mail as root fine! I am running RedHat 7.3 (Valhalla), Sendmail 8.11.6. The only ports open on the machine are 25/tcp (Sendmail) and 6000/tcp (X11). No UDP ports open. And I don't connect to the internet with this machine, it's just a dummy machine that sits there waiting
for all things experimentation that may come my way ;-) I have attached a copy of the /etc/aliases file for anyone to look at just in case. Thank you for your time...
--Arthur--
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Re: Unknown User/Alias 'Marc'
Hi Arthur!
Quoted 6 lines · Arthur Othieno
# Person who should get root's mail
#root: marcAll I want to know is who is this user/alias marc? A quick look at the
/etc/passwd, shadow, group, gshadow... didn't turn up any results, which puzzles me. Funny thing is I get mail as root fine! I am running RedHat 7.3
Well it's quite simple.
1) the alias root -> marc is commented with a "#" so this isn't in effect anyway.
2) if it would be active, mail would still go to user root since there is no user marc
3) so leave it commented or replace marc with the user that you want to receive emails for root
Regards,
Axel
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Re: Unknown User/Alias 'Marc'
In reply to Arthur OthienoQuoted 6 lines · Arthur Othieno
Hello all. After a few weeks of lurking on the list I can finally turn to you
for some quick advice. The other night as I was looking through my sendmail aliases file (/etc/aliases), I noticed a perculiar line at the end of it that read:
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--begin--
# Person who should get root's mail
#root: marc
--end--All I want to know is who is this user/alias marc?
[rest deleted]
A (non-existant) example of a user. The line begins with a #, making it a comment line, not a functioning line.
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A quick look at the
/etc/passwd, shadow, group, gshadow... didn't turn up any results, which puzzles me. Funny thing is I get mail as root fine! I am running RedHat 7.3 (Valhalla), Sendmail 8.11.6. The only ports open on the machine are 25/tcp (Sendmail) and 6000/tcp (X11). No UDP ports open. And I don't connect to the internet with this machine, it's just a dummy machine that sits there waiting
for all things experimentation that may come my way ;-) I have attached a copy of the/etc/aliasesfile for anyone to look at just in case.
I didn't see an attachment. Anyway, attaching small files like this is one is a bad idea -- if we need to see them, it's easier (less work for most of us) if you put them in the body of your message.
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Thank you
for your time...
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