Patrick
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Posted: Jan. 12 2005,08:04 |
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I work with DSL 0.8.4 (from a usb-stick) on 2 pc's. One with a (brookdale) i810-videocard and one with a Nvidia Gforce 4 MX. For both i made a little script that i use at the console (before i enter X).
script number one: (pc at work/i810)
rm -f ~/.xserverrc
cp -f /cdrom/keep/scriptjes/.xserverrc ~/.xserverrc
startx
script number two: (pc at home/Nvidia)
mydsl-load /cdrom/my-dsl/XFree86.dsl
rm -f ~/.xserverrc
cp -f /cdrom/keep/scriptjes/.xserverrcGforce ~/.xserverrc
startx
Both work fine...
Now i wanted to automate the running of these scripts/commands and got help from henk_1955 (made a script for me, executed from bootlocal.sh, see below)
. /etc/sysconfig/xserver
echo "Description=$XDESC"
USEXF86="mydsl-load /cdrom/my-dsl/XFree86.dsl"
case "$XDESC" in
*"NVidia"*)
echo "use NVidia"
$USEXF86
ln -sf ~/XFree86_config_files/XF86Config-4_nvidia_accel_ready /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
cp -f /cdrom/keep/scriptjes/.xserverrcGforce ~/.xserverrc
;;
*Brookdale*)
echo "use i810 config"
$USEXF86
ln -sf ~/XFree86_config_files/XF86Config-4_generic_i810 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
cp -f /cdrom/keep/scriptjes/.xserverrci810 ~/.xserverrc
;;
esac
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I can't get this last script to function properly. As i understand, to use Xfree86 there are 3 conditions that must be satisfied:
1) XFree86.dsl must be installed
2) /etc/X11/XF86Config must be linked to /KNOPPIX/etc/X11/XF86Config
3) ~/.xserverrc must execute Xfree86
What i don't understand is the role that "startx" plays in all of this. When all 3 conditions are satisfied XFree86 should start without the use of "startx" but it doesn't.
Right now i am back at using 2 scripts that i have to manually input at the console because last night (at home) i couldn't get into XFree86 anymore! (and for a while Xvesa also denied me access). (error message: something about not finding a screen, i haven't memorized the errormessage, sorry)
I am happy to say that i can get into Xvesa at work (right now) with script number one..
What i haven't told you yet is that in the filetool.lst i removed this line:
/home/dsl/.xserverrc
And did a backup.
What i don't get is: this shouldn't effect the way Xvesa or XFree86 runs? (because after the restoring of backup.tar.gz i run a script that overwrites ~/.xserverrc.. right?)
Thanks for reading all this shit....
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