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Posted: Sep. 15 2004,02:35 QUOTE
Hey, thanks for the help guys, but my understanding of X is a bit dodgy, I've been thinking that xdm is just a login startup, but it seems to be the thing which starts X with full xfree86. So I guess my question now is why does it sign in, load a bit, then put be back on the login screen? Maybe I need to link the X window system to fluxbox? Thanks people for the help :)

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Posted: Sep. 17 2004,01:55 QUOTE
Ok! I finally figured all this stuff up! This is my method on putting full X on a hard drive install.

Once DSL is installed and logged in as root:

1) dpkg-restore
2) apt-get update
3) apt-get install x-window-system, then setup XF86Config-4 any way you please
4) edit /etc/init.d/xdm and put exit 0 on the first line
5) edit $HOME/.xserverrc and modify the exec command to:
exec /usr/bin/X11/X -auth $HOME/.Xauthority
and do the same for any other logins (like dsl)
/home/dsl/.xserverrc
6) remove startx
rm /usr/bin/X11/startx
and what I did, was replace it with my linux server's startx (slackware 10), so just google around for one and place it in! :)
7) optional: If you have some privelage problems with some /tmp X file, delete the file/dir, then type:
chmod 1777 /tmp
chown root.root /tmp

And I hope this works for people like me who had a nightmare putting full X in DSL!
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Posted: Sep. 19 2004,03:41 QUOTE
Mista ed, great advise, got XFree86 up and running (still working on getting enlightenment up)
I put a copy of my startx on my website, just do a file, save as startx

http://www.geocities.com/ghost_runner2003/startx.txt ought to get you there. Thanx again mista ed!

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Posted: Sep. 20 2004,13:48 QUOTE
quick add, goto /etc/rc5.d/S99xdm and add

exit 0

to the first line to keep the xdm login from annoying the heck out of you

I got enlightenment up and working, awsome!!! I just got to do some tweaks to other programs that use sound to shutdown then restart the esd, but that is a simple job of making scripts

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Posted: Sep. 24 2004,06:15 QUOTE
Holy cow!

I've been trying to find this very solution (for the EXACT same notebook model) for about 6 months now, and was about to the point of throwing in the towel.

I'm running through the steps this very minute... Verdict coming shortly.
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