RobF
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Posted: July 25 2004,18:23 |
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I changed the modes of the Xi810 file as su, i.e. o, g and u with +s; I didn't change a. That gave root, root, -rwsrwsr-x for owership and permissions for Xi810, very close to those for Xvesa.
Then I edited .xserverrc which then read
exec /home/dsl/Xi810 -mouse /dev/input/mice,5 -screen 800x600x8 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null
Is there anything in these arguments that Xi810 might stumble over? Ordinarily I choose 1024x768x16 for resolution & depth but here I chose a less demanding setting.
Then I killed X and typed startx at the text prompt (as normal user, NOT as su). That gave me the same error message as before, i.e. "waiting for xserver to begin accepting connections .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .." I stopped that process, which brought me back to the text prompt. But now the keyboard was dropping letters, so I couldn't restart X or run xsetup.sh. Next, CTRL-ALT-Delete. The last message I saw before the line "KNOPPIX halted" was:
xserver (pam_unix) [777]: authentication failure; logname= uid=1001 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=dsl
I guess that just means that as ordinary user I didn't have the permissions to open Xi810. I stopped there, i.e. didn't go through the whole changing & editing routine again and then startx as su. I'm almost certain, I would have gotten the same result as last time, i.e. landed in the Xvesa/Xfbdev setup routine.
On another note: I looked more closely at how the colors change from normal (i.e. with Xfree86) to DSL with Xvesa. The colors in DSL are not TOTALLY scrambled. Many of them are just exchanged in pairs. E.g. the letters of Google: red -> dark blue, dark blue -> red, light blue -> yellow, and green remains green. With Tux's feet, yellow -> light blue (i.e. the reverse as in the 3rd Google letter). I just wonder whether Xvesa needs to be tweaked only slightly and all the colors would fall into place.
There is another state that I come across with DSL where the colors are much more strongly corrupted. E.g. the appearance of Tux in the center of the DSL desktop in that state is grainy and fuzzy and the colors are rather psychedelic. This state commonly occurs when I open gLinks-hacked: when the cursor is within the browser window, the colors are mildly scrambled (i.e. apparently reversed in pairs) as I described above but when I place the cursor on the window frame or outside the gLinks window, all the colors of the gLinks window flip (this is quite striking) and the menu bar becomes fuzzy and its icons unrecognizable. Moving the cursor back into the gLinks window flips the colors back to the less bizarre state.
What does all this signify? I commonly get the error "IMLIB ERROR: Cannot find palette. A palette is required for this mode", when Xvesa is starting up X windows. Is Xvesa not finding the proper palette or is it using the wrong palette when it's driving the i810 hardware? Can that be fixed?
Somewhere in this world there must be somebody who managed to properly drive the Intel i810 graphics chipset (mine is actually the 845GL - same family) with one of the Kdrive (formerly known as TinyX) xservers, i.e. Xvesa, Xfbdev, or Xi810. After all, the Kdrive folks wouldn't have released an Xi810 server if that isn't possible.
Robert
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