no Background - xsri not happy

Forum: Laptops
Topic: no Background - xsri not happy
started by: OnTheEdge

Posted by OnTheEdge on Dec. 12 2006,15:35

I am running DSL on a Compaq LTE ELITE 4/75CX laptop. It is a 486DX with 24 megs of RAM and a 640x480 color LCD.

DSL boots up fine, and X even runs, but I never get a "real backgrond" I am just stuck with the X windows "dogbone" or "crosshatch" or whatever you call it.

I found that when the ./.background program runs it does not work. Instead xsri gives this error:

Gdk-WARNING **: Visual type color depth=4, image bpp=4, lsb first is not supported by GdkRGB. Please submit a bug report with the above values to bugzilla.gnome.org

Any ideas why xsri is spitting out this error?

Thank you.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 12 2006,15:53

do solid colors work? (ie minimal theme)

What's your video settings? Maybe you need at least a 8 bit color depth

Posted by OnTheEdge on Dec. 12 2006,16:46

Any theme seems to work, although some look horrible. Programs work. It all works, I just have that horrible background that makes the little system stats program hard to see.

I have run xsetup.sh several times and chosen all sorts of combinations. It actually seems to have no affect on how xwindows runs though. I'm not really sure what color depth I am running at. Since changing the screen resolution in xsetup has no affect, I tend to think that changing the color depth has no affect either.

How do I force X into a particular color depth? How do I know what it is running at?

EDIT: Sorry, it does NOT all work. I do not get the icons on the desktop either.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 12 2006,17:00

ah yea, I think you probably did not restart X after.
On-the-fly video setting switching isn't in DSL by default.

(to restart, ie exit fluxbox, then at the tty run `startx`)

Posted by OnTheEdge on Dec. 12 2006,17:20

Uh, right, obviously. I shut down Xwindows I run xsetup.sh. Then I startx again, but it always comes up with the same resolution (and I assume color depth) each time.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 12 2006,17:59

Hmm, no idea then. I suppose you could check 'xset q' for the colors.

Posted by jls legalize on Dec. 13 2006,13:59

type fb640x480 at boot:

or
dsl xsetup vga=xxx

where xxx is replaced by the number below originally provided by robf, for example 771:

640x480 - 256 colours: 769
640x480 - 32,768 colours: 784
640x480 - 65,536 colours: 785
640x480 - 16.8M colours: 786
800x600 - 256 colours: 771
800x600 - 32,768 colours: 787
800x600 - 65,536 colours: 788
800x600 - 16.8M colours: 789
1024x768 - 256 colours: 773
1024x768 - 32,768 colours: 790
1024x768 - 65,536 colours: 791 (default)
1024x768 - 16.8M colours: 792
1280x1024 - 256 colours: 775
1280x1024 - 32,768 colours: 793
1280x1024 - 65,536 colours: 794
1280x1024 - 16.8M colours: 795

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Posted by OnTheEdge on Dec. 13 2006,14:55

If I type fb640x480 at boot: then I get this:
Could not find kernel image: fb640x48.0
and it puts me back to the boot: prompt.

If I do the "dsl xsetup vga=769" at boot:
then it boots, then when xsetup.sh comes up, if I chose fbdev, then when X tries to come up I get:
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fb0
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

If I use xvesa in xsetup.sh instead, then the results are the same as before, the xsri cannot run.

I also tried fb800x600 at the boot: prompt, and the results were EXACTLY the same as when I used "dsl xsetup vga=769", that is vfbdev would give a modprobe error, and xvesa allowed XWindows to come up, but no xsri.

In both cases, I get this during the boot process:
You passed an undefined mode number.
Press <RETURN> to see video modes available, <SPACE> to continue or wait 30 secs

Any ideas?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 13 2006,15:17

It's "fb#x# dsl blahblah" as described in the wiki.