dare2dreamer
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Posted: Mar. 13 2006,19:27 |
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Yeah, I'm trying to get an i810 going myself. Shall we call that our test case to keep things simple?
I downloaded a copy and ran it with sudo:
sudo Xi810 -screen 1024x768x32
It came up clean, it of course didn't read a .xinitrc or anything, but I got a default X background and X cursor. Killed it with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE with no issues. So it works as a server under DSL v2.2, but the trick is to get it to run with the right permissions and as a part of the whole startx/xinit cycle so it picks up .xinitrc and such.
When I tried running it as user dsl, it just hung badly enough to toast the console I ran it from. It basically just keeps flashing "awaiting connection from Xserver" and will not die. Kill -9 as root will kill it off, but the console is then non-responsive.
(hint for aspiring Kdrive tinkerers, enable ssh on your test rig before you start messing with it unless you like the sound of reboots)
As per the Kdrive pages, I've set permissions to 4711 (chmod +s) and ownership to root:root...with no additional effect.
I've tried running mkwriteable manually and copying it into place. Made no difference.
At a guess, it's capable of running but the server is not currently being called by the startx/xinit scripts properly for some arcane reason. This, admittedly, is where my knowledge starts getting grey quickly. I've tried all sorts of combinations of symlinking it into place (in /usr/X11R6/bin), but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
I'm willing to keep swinging at it with some help though. Would love to see these in the extension library. Care to go for dual credit on the extension, cbagger? ;-)
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