X and Fluxbox :: installing XFree86 when running from CD

first. I read the howto, oviusly, is not hard to do.

second. I made a .dsl with XFree86 and nvidia with the configuration of the howto. Becouse i want to have a module that installs directly my system when bootting. The first step is make XFree86 works.

third. The first error mentioned in the fist post is becouse when i made my "XFree86_nvidia_accel" i save this with the extension .dsl but the programs add's .tar.gz automatically. When i remove the .tar.gz the XFree86 binary was decompressed correctly but now i have other error that dont must be.

.tar.gz are the same as .dsl but dsl-load works diferent with them, are not?
if are not the same compression, here is the error. but i read a little bit how to make .dsl and is not dificult.

You should make it as a .dsl file since it is writing to multiple parts of the filesystem. One thing to remember is that xfree MUST be loaded before nvidia. When mydsl-load initiates at boot it goes alphabetically so you have to make sure the xfree is named something that appears before 'n' in nvidia. I have mine as 'myxfree.dsl' and 'xnvidia.dsl' just to be safe.

It's great you're making .dsl files. We can always use another contributor to the community!

Good luck

Chris

thanks, if it works i will make an script to choose at boot time what XFree driver to use passing an option like xfree=nvidia if the option is not passed, the system start with the default configuration. Thats the idea.

the .dsl file i made is called XFree86_nvidia_accel.dsl and have both, Xfree86 and nvidia inside already configured for an "load and run". But doasn`t work

check with clivesay,
as he has an "all-in-one" extension that works for xfree and nvidia.

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