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Topic: All the colors are off!, Incorrect color rendering with Xvesa

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cbagger01

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Posted: July 23 2004,12:20

I stand corrected.

Looks like someone from the kdrive team is working on an xi810 server for your graphics system.

You can download it and try it out. A precompiled binary exists here at:

http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/XFree86/kdrive/8.0/Xi810

Make sure you do a "chmod 755 Xi810" after download to make the program executable.

Then run xsetup.sh to build your xsetup file: .xserverrc if I remember correctly.
Choose Xvesa for your xserver.

Then use 'nano' or 'vim' to edit the file and replace "xvesa" with "Xi810" in the command line. Then save it, get back to the command prompt and type "startx" on a blank line.

Good Luck.

RobF

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Posted: July 23 2004,17:32

Thank you so much, cbagger, for your help. You have given me some real meat. I was getting extremely frustrated, feeling that there might be a fix to this problem, but knowing next to nothing about video on i386 machines. From my reading on these matters I had come up with three possible avenues to explore which are precisely the three areas that you mentioned: 1. Intel or Dell providing a BIOS patch for my machine, 2. the TinyX developers updating Xvesa and Xfbdev with i810 support, 3. somebody writing framebuffer support for i810, or whatever, directly into the Linux kernel.

For now, I'll first try out that Xi810 server from the TinyX team. Second, there is the possibility of replacing the TinyX servers with X86free. I'm not wedded to the notion of keeping DSL below 50 MB; it's allright with me to have it on an 8 cm mini CD. I'll follow your instructions for installing X86free. If this works, then I'll see if I can remaster the CD with X86free as the default X server. Has anyone succeeded in doing that?

I haven't installed DSL on my HD, and I don't really want to. I'll see if all of the above can be done from the liveCD running from my RAM disk (I have 512 MB RAM) and from two 256 MB USB thumbdrives that I have on my machine.

I'll get to it this weekend and let you know if anything worked. I suppose it's also possible to bypass the onboard Intel graphics chips (reset a jumper on the mobo?) and install a separate video card. How much would I have to spend on a suitable card that doesn't have the limitations of the i810? Any recommendations? It would have to be something mainstream that works without problems with Xandros 2.0, Mandrakelinux 10.0, Libranet 2.8.1, Mepis-2004.b05 and Yoper V2.

Robert

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Posted: July 24 2004,21:28

I ran into a snag trying to install the Xi810 server. It should be installed in /usr/X11R6/bin but when I try, as root, to move it there from the download directory (/home/dsl), I get the error message "cannot create regular file 'Xi810': Read-only file system".

I guess that comes from the fact that in the DSL directory tree /usr/X11R6/bin is on the CD which cannot be written to. When I load DSL into RAM (using 'dsl toram' at the boot prompt), I still get the same error message, presumably because DSL merely loads the CD image into RAM, keeping the filesystem untouched. How can I get around this? Do I need to install DSL on one of my USB thumbdrives to be able to add packages to it? How do I do that?

When I edit the X server config file .xserverrc (in /home/dsl/) by changing /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa to /home/dsl/Xi810, in order to run Xi810 from /home/dsl/, the system hangs. It appears the X server has to be in /usr/X11R6/bin.

Robert

ke4nt1

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Posted: July 24 2004,22:38

I can write to the /usr/X11R6/bin directory from /home/dsl
I have to run emelfm from a root shell to do this....
Open up a terminal, sudo su to root, run emelfm from the terminal, copy away..
I frequently open up emelfm from the desktop, forgetting to open it from a root shell.
I'm running from LiveCD, and copied the filetool.lst from /home/dsl to /usr/X11R6/bin with no troubles.

73
ke4nt

RobF

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Posted: July 25 2004,00:16

Thanks, ke4nt, for your suggestion. I did as you said, i.e. opened a root bash, did sudo su to a root@ttyp0[dsl]# prompt, opened emelfm, and navigated to the dir that contains Xvesa. The only difference was that the path to Xvesa, as indicated in the emelfm box, was /KNOPPIX/usr/X11R6/bin, rather than /usr/X11R6/bin which is what I had used before.

When I then tried (using emelfm) to copy Xi810 from /mnt/auto/floppy (where I had saved it after downloading it), I got the same error message as before: cp: cannot create regular file '/KNOPPIX/usr/X11R6/bin/Xi810': Read-only file system. So it didn't work.

The permissions for Xi810 are: root, root, -rwxrwxrwx
The permissions for Xvesa are: root, root, -rwsr-sr-x

If one runs DSL from the LiveCD (no HDD install), I'm wondering where most of the directory tree + files are kept. I thought they were kept on the CD-ROM, and only the user files in /home/dsl are kept in a partition that can be written to, i.e. on the ramdisk. If the former are kept on the CD-ROM (which is read-only) then one wouldn't be able to add any system files to DSL. If one wanted to, one would have to install DSL on the HDD (or perhaps it would also work on a USB thumb drive). Am I correct?

I'm puzzled why you're able to copy to the /usr dir, and I'm not.

Robert

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