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Topic: SVGA Xserver won't load, Is XFree86-v4 able to use xserver-svga?

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markm

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Posted: Mar. 08 2006,23:40

I have done everything I can think of. I'm kind of stuck where you were stuck.
I've got the XF86_SVGA loading, and I get a grey screen with a cursor, when I move the mouse around the cursor goes spastic and sticks to the top of the screen. The last message says "Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap. Warning: /dev/mouse unable to get status of mouse fd (Inappropriate ioctl for device)."
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 (or as user), when I type "startx" it still trys to start the old X. I edited the .xserverrc in the home dir, to start the svga server but it still starts the other on login. I'm using a known good /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
Any suggestions?

hseaver

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Posted: Mar. 09 2006,02:37

Sounds like you didn't follow that last part of my directions where I said to look at this other guys message and follow his thing. Also sounds like you did config the mouse right (maybe it needs /dev/psaux instead of /dev/mouse)

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=3760

markm

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Posted: Mar. 10 2006,13:13

Actually I did follow your instructions, but I must have messed up somewhere. My mouse is pointing to /dev/psaux. I'll try changing it to /dev/mouse.
I did the following commands from the link you posted:
sudo chown root XF86_SVGA
sudo chgrp root XF86_SVGA
sudo chmod +s XF86_SVGA

I didn't do the Edit your ~/.xserverrc
because my DEL and Backspace keys worked fine.

I couldn't really tell if my /etc/X11/XF86Config file was in a DOS format so I went ahead and did the:
cat /etc/X11/XF86Config | dos2unix > ~/tmp
sudo mv ~/tmp /etc/X11/XF86Config

I didn't do any of the stuff below (maybe that is where I went wrong):
dpkg --extract xserver*.deb temp/
cd temp
set the suid bit on usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
make dirlist.txt file like:
Code Sample
usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
usr/X11R6/bin/gtf
usr/X11R6/bin/ioport
usr/X11R6/bin/mmapr
...
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a

thats all in usr/X11R6/
then use < clivesay's repack >
create a suitable XF86Config copy it or make a link to it in /etc/X11
change /home/dsl/.xserverrc to
Code Sample
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -nolisten tcp

If you can tell where I messed up, let me know.
thanks, MarkM

hseaver

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Posted: Mar. 11 2006,18:21

Sorry, I don't know -- I didn't have to really do anything to my XF86Config because it was a working one with svga from my old redhat install on the same machine. Have you tried running xf86config?

markm

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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,14:52

The XF86Config that I am using is a proven good file, I had it up and running in Woody. In fact, since I installed gpm (in dsl), and got the mouse working, I can type XF86_SVGA and X will start. I wrote a little script file called startsvga and edited my /home/dsl/.xinitrc so that fluxbox will start, and now I can get X and fluxbox running at the proper resolution. But the system is a flaky and tends to do something different everytime that I startsvga.
Is there any way you could post a short synopsis of the steps that you took to install svga, hseaver? I think that I'm missing something. If not, I'll just wait until the DSL folks release the XFree86.dsl.
Thanks,

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