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Topic: xfree86 (HD Install), How do I change the X Server to xfree?

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MistaED

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Posted: Sep. 12 2004,05:08

Hello, I am trying to install DSL on my Dell Latitude XPi P133ST, and because it has a NeoMagic video chip, Xvesa looks like utter poo, and Xfbdev in 800x600 with 256 colours is TERRIBLE, as the palette is very random.

So I took some advice and enabled apt and downloaded the x-window-server. So far so good, reboot the machine and an X login screen appears, I login and it does some screen flashing and then goes back to that same login screen! So I disabled xdm or whatever so I could login from a command line, so then fluxbox boots with xfbdev.

Sorry, but I am very confused by all this X as I'm still new to linux. How can I get normal xfree86 to be the default X server and run XF86config-4? As XF86 4.x supports this NeoMagic (with a bit of Xaa tweaking) and can set the res to 800x570 and run 16-bit colour.

Thanks!
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MistaED

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Posted: Sep. 12 2004,07:55

Ok, I have figured it out and that xfree86 does execute when xdm is run, but xdm won't let me login. So i take off xdm so i can log into DSL at the console, it logs me in fine but another script executes which runs xfbdev. How can I get rid of this script which runs straight after logging in?

cbagger01

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Posted: Sep. 12 2004,16:16

Try booting with boot command:

dsl 2

It will start the system up in runlevel 2 and it will not execute the xwindows startup script.

Or you could rename your $HOME/.xserverrc file to .xserverrc.old

Thanks
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Posted: Sep. 14 2004,06:23

Thanks for that, but with a hdd install the boot doesn't appear so I can't put those details in. What I'm really asking is how can I make DSL bypass xvesa/xfbdev altogether and just boot with normal xfree86 (without xdm). When xdm boots it reads off my XF86Config-4.conf but xdm sucks

I can easily disable xdm but so far that's the only way normal xXF86 boots. How can I make startx run normal XF86 like xdm does?

Thanks!

jerome5

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Posted: Sep. 14 2004,17:59

This might help

apt-get install xdm

then

apt-get remove xdm

cause apt-get wont know that the xdm package has been installed by default with dsl (because it isnt fully installed afaik ;) )

I hope you have a network connection in linux cause you would have to download xdm and the dependencies by hand from debian.org

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