X and Fluxbox :: SVGA Xserver won't load



Quote (cbagger01 @ Mar. 07 2006,13:35)
Even if it requires a little work by the user to get it up and running, it's still nice to have it available in the repository.

So how do I do that?
I think if you e-mail it to extensions[at]damnsmallinux[dot]org it will be added to the testing area.
hseaver, please elaborate on "run the deb2dsl on that XF86_SVGA that you'll find in /usr/bin/x11/ and then mydsl-load XF86_SVGA.dsl "  It sounds like your pretty close to having SVGA running.  I had installed dsl on my compaq laptop and apt-get installed xserver-common-v3 and xserver-svga but couldn't find the right config files to get SVGA to load.  If I get some time this weekend I may try dsl again.  Debian/Woody runs so good on this machine, and it was such a b*ch to install, I hate to wipe it out.
Quote (markm @ Mar. 07 2006,20:12)
hseaver, please elaborate on "run the deb2dsl on that XF86_SVGA that you'll find in /usr/bin/x11/ and then mydsl-load XF86_SVGA.dsl "  It sounds like your pretty close to having SVGA running.  I had installed dsl on my compaq laptop and apt-get installed xserver-common-v3 and xserver-svga but couldn't find the right config files to get SVGA to load.  If I get some time this weekend I may try dsl again.  Debian/Woody runs so good on this machine, and it was such a b*ch to install, I hate to wipe it out.

Look on the dsl server for the pdf files (which are the only real documentation I could find) and one of them is how to turn .deb files into .dsl files. Essentially you just need to run "deb2dsl /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA"    Of course, you have to have done "apt-get install xserver-svga first (and that will automatically install the xserver-common and other stuff) and you should be able to do this from the CD. During that process it will do a configuration for you. Then look at the message from the laptop forum I posted in the last post and follow that.
   I *think* you should be able to get it running from the CD, but I'm not sure. Or you could stick a small cheap used drive into your other machine temporarily and install dsl on that. Thats what I had to do anyway for my laptop since it has no cd.
I went ahead and installed dsl to my 340 MB hd.  (I did the standard, not the enhanced install).  I enabled apt-get.  I will have to figure out how to "Look on the dsl server for the pdf files"  I guess that would be the web site where I dowloaded dsl?  Currently I am apt-get installing xserver-svga.
Then I will run as root "deb2dsl /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA" I'm not sure how that works, but what the heck! And finally I'll read the last post in the forum that you listed above and try to apply that knowledge.  I'll post my results here.  Thanks for the direction, I was previously rudderless in a sea of confusion. :laugh:
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