X and Fluxbox :: xfree86 (HD Install)



Hi!

I have a EPIA-M1000 (as sold here on dsl shop).
I trie to get the via graphics driver to work with a full install of X, but I cant get it to work. I guess its a kernel version problem or something. It worked good with Mandrake on the same mainboard.

Has anyone had a sucsess with this, or have any ideas?
Quote (MistaED @ Sep. 16 2004,21:55)
MistaEds X instructions:

Ok! I finally figured all this stuff up! This is my method on putting full X on a hard drive install.

Once DSL is installed and logged in as root:

1) dpkg-restore
2) apt-get update
3) apt-get install x-window-system, then setup XF86Config-4 any way you please
4) edit /etc/init.d/xdm and put exit 0 on the first line
5) edit $HOME/.xserverrc and modify the exec command to:
exec /usr/bin/X11/X -auth $HOME/.Xauthority
and do the same for any other logins (like dsl)
/home/dsl/.xserverrc
6) remove startx
rm /usr/bin/X11/startx
and what I did, was replace it with my linux server's startx (slackware 10), so just google around for one and place it in! :)
7) optional: If you have some privelage problems with some /tmp X file, delete the file/dir, then type:
chmod 1777 /tmp
chown root.root /tmp

And I hope this works for people like me who had a nightmare putting full X in DSL!


:p :p :p  Oh that's embarassing... all it needed was a reboot. So used to Linux not needing boots....
(never mind....)

Hi,

got XFree86 working with MistaEd's instructions (Thanks! Worked!).  I had to fix the permissions on /tmp and delete the invisible X directory under /tmp/; also had to edit the session.menufile line in my ~/.fluxbox/init to read ~/.fluxbox/menu in order to get my fluxbox menus back.

Now I would like to get my 'full enhanced desktop' back - looks like the menu items runs 'enhance &>/dev/null'. I have no idea what the 'enhance' command actually does.... any assistance?

Thanks,
Les
I'm glad people liked my help, it's always nice :)
Also Shaft, if you want 16-bit in 800x600 you can't because of the limitation of vram, but you can run in 800x570 with 16-bit colour ;) Once I fix up a problem I got with the laptop right now, I'll send you my exact XF86Config-4 file. Sorry Les, I'm not sure on that are you logging in as dsl or root?
Hey Mista Ed
It's all working... I wasn't very clear in my last note; I asked for some help and then realized it just needed a reboot. And I'm logging in as DSL then using su when I'm configuring stuff.

(This note sent from Dillo on DSL 0.8.2, AMD Duron 600@900)

Les
I'd love to try the info in this thread, but my X is unreadable using Xvesa, is there a command line for enabling apt-get?  If I can enable apt, I just might be able to fix the rest of it with this thread.

Thanks MistaEd and all the rest.
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