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

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hseaver

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Posted: Mar. 06 2006,17:20

Well, I've made some progress. I've now got the XF86_SVGA loading, and I get a grey (this is a mono lcd) screen with a cursor, and I can move the cursor around with the mouse. The last message says "Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap"
So why isn't X loading the rest of the things?

cbagger01

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Posted: Mar. 06 2006,17:49

Perhaps you are not starting up the other stuff (such as the window manager) that is defined in your xinitrc file.

Try this. Press CTRL-ALT-F3

Type:

/home/dsl/.xinitrc

Press CTRL-ALT-F2 (you may need to try other function keys like CTRL-ALT-F6 or CTRL-ALT-F7) to return to graphical mode.

hseaver

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Posted: Mar. 06 2006,18:44

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, when I log in as dsl it still trys to start the old X. And so far I haven't figured out how to change that. I edited the .xserverrc in the home dir, to start the svga server but it still starts the other on login.

hseaver

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Posted: Mar. 07 2006,14:24

Quote (cbagger01 @ Mar. 05 2006,21:57)

If you ever get an XF86_SVGA.dsl extension up and running, please submit it to the MyDSL repository along with instructions on how to set it up.

Thanks.

Okay, I've finally got XF86_SVGA working all the way. The final key to the puzzle was found here:

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

I can post the .dsl to the repository, I'm not sure if it will work if you don't have the right XF86Config, and I had mine from my old redhat install.