Re: Runaway X
Hello:
You say your running X, what is your window manager?
Select 1, fvwm, fvwm95, KDE, also install kdm or xdm.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Hersh, Harry <Harry.Hersh@fmr.com>
To: 'Rafael Cordones Marcos' <rafacm@bcnartdirecte.com>
Cc: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Friday, August 21, 1998 7:21 AM
Subject: RE: Runaway X
>Thanks, everyone for all the help. Here's what I found that might be
helpful
>to others starting out:
> 1. From a virtual console, pressing Alt-Fn on the keyboard switches
>control to virtual console n. However when X is running, the command is
>ctrl-Alt-Fn. (I don't remember reading this in the documentation.)
>
> 2. As Rafael pointed out, if you install one X server (an incorrect
>one, perhaps?), then install a second X server, /etc/X11/Xserver will still
>point to the old server. (Again, an undocumented feature.) Editing the
first
>line of the script to point to the correct server solves the problem.
>
>Now that I have X up and running (almost), there is one more nagging
problem
>I hope someone can help with. Everything seems to run, but there is no
>cursor bitmap, just a 1"x1/4" white rectangle that moves in response to my
>mouse movements. In addition, it appears that the backing store is not
>working: moving a window to a new location on the display moves it
>correctly, but the old location still maintains a snapshot image of the
>window. (It's as if the backgound is not responding to the repaint event.)
>And in a seemingly related matter menues drop down correctly only the first
>time selected. After that the menu's bounding rectangle appears without the
>content. I can tell the menu is there (but invisible) for I can hilight and
>select menu items.
>
>Can anyone take a guess at what's happening here? What's missing or
>reconfigured wrong?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Harry Hersh
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rafael Cordones Marcos [SMTP:rafacm@bcnartdirecte.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 6:10 PM
>> To: Debian Users
>> Subject: Re: Runaway X
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:40:18AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Once I can stop the looping, I can start figuring out why the server
>> > > only comes up in 340x200 mode and why /dev/psaux doesn't work as a
>> > > Microsoft mouse port.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > >
>> > > Harry Hersh
>> >
>>
>> I don't know if this might be your problem but when I installed Deb2.0
>> I couldn't start the Xserver (SVGA). And finally spotted the problem
>> in the file "/etc/X11/Xserver" which had not been updated by the
>> configuration script and still had the VGA16 server on the first line.
>> See also "/usr/doc/X11/README.Debian"
>>
>> Rafa
>>
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