Well, I've made some progress. I've now got the XF86_SVGA loading, and I get a grey (this is a mono lcd) screen with a cursor, and I can move the cursor around with the mouse. The last message says "Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap" So why isn't X loading the rest of the things?Perhaps you are not starting up the other stuff (such as the window manager) that is defined in your xinitrc file.
Try this. Press CTRL-ALT-F3
Type:
/home/dsl/.xinitrc
Press CTRL-ALT-F2 (you may need to try other function keys like CTRL-ALT-F6 or CTRL-ALT-F7) to return to graphical mode.When I do the /home/dsl/.initrc it just says "permission denied" But so far I've only got it to load XF86_SVGA by doing it manually as root, when I log in as dsl it still trys to start the old X. And so far I haven't figured out how to change that. I edited the .xserverrc in the home dir, to start the svga server but it still starts the other on login.
Quote (cbagger01 @ Mar. 05 2006,21:57)
If you ever get an XF86_SVGA.dsl extension up and running, please submit it to the MyDSL repository along with instructions on how to set it up.
Thanks.
Okay, I've finally got XF86_SVGA working all the way. The final key to the puzzle was found here:
I can post the .dsl to the repository, I'm not sure if it will work if you don't have the right XF86Config, and I had mine from my old redhat install.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.Next Page...
original here.