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Posted: Oct. 04 2004,16:31 QUOTE

Your problem is that you have selected the xfbdev XWindows server but you don't have a valid framebuffer loaded up at boot time.

Do you see 1 or 2 little penguins appear in the upper corner after you are past the boot screen?

If not, you need to start DSL with a different framebuffer mode. Maybe boot with "fb800x600" command, for example.

Also, you could try and use the Xvesa server instead of the xfbdev server.

After getting the error message, type:

xsetup.sh

(Choose Xvesa settings)

startx
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Posted: Oct. 04 2004,16:53 QUOTE

Quote (cbagger01 @ Oct. 04 2004,12:31)
Your problem is that you have selected the xfbdev XWindows server but you don't have a valid framebuffer loaded up at boot time.

Do you see 1 or 2 little penguins appear in the upper corner after you are past the boot screen?

If not, you need to start DSL with a different framebuffer mode. Maybe boot with "fb800x600" command, for example.

Also, you could try and use the Xvesa server instead of the xfbdev server.

After getting the error message, type:

xsetup.sh

(Choose Xvesa settings)

startx

When booting up I see one penguin in the top left corner (after loading of mini root).
Xvesa is loaded by default, but I tried reconfiguring, as you suggested, using xsetup.sh.
After this I ran startx, but got the message:

giving up
xinit: connection refused (errno 111)
xinit: unable to connect to X Server

Anyway, I'm giving up and going home now (!), but thanks for the suggestion, and any further advice would be welcome.

(BTW, I'm using the bootusb-0.8.img)

Julian.
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Posted: Oct. 06 2004,08:13 QUOTE

Quote (Julian Stevens @ Oct. 04 2004,12:53)
Quote (cbagger01 @ Oct. 04 2004,12:31)
Your problem is that you have selected the xfbdev XWindows server but you don't have a valid framebuffer loaded up at boot time.

Do you see 1 or 2 little penguins appear in the upper corner after you are past the boot screen?

If not, you need to start DSL with a different framebuffer mode. Maybe boot with "fb800x600" command, for example.

Also, you could try and use the Xvesa server instead of the xfbdev server.

After getting the error message, type:

xsetup.sh

(Choose Xvesa settings)

startx

When booting up I see one penguin in the top left corner (after loading of mini root).
Xvesa is loaded by default, but I tried reconfiguring, as you suggested, using xsetup.sh.
After this I ran startx, but got the message:

giving up
xinit: connection refused (errno 111)
xinit: unable to connect to X Server

Anyway, I'm giving up and going home now (!), but thanks for the suggestion, and any further advice would be welcome.

(BTW, I'm using the bootusb-0.8.img)

Julian.

After failing to get my USB memory stick to load the X Server on Monday I took it home, together with the boot floppy, and DSL booted up first time on my computer at  home. :)

I guess I must have a problem with my computer hardware at work. :(
smilie
Does anyone know how I could try to locate the problem and fix it? ???


Thanks,
Julian
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Posted: Oct. 09 2004,00:13 QUOTE

Hello, I did everything after your description.
But when the KNOPPIX folder and the files from floppy are on the pendrive. I umount the pendrive and do "syslinux /dev/sda1" with following result: root@ttyp0[dsl]# syslinux /dev/sda1
Total number of sectors not a multiple of sectors per track!
Add mtools_skip_check=1 to your .mtoolsrc file to skip this test

I havent found a .mtoolsrc in the home-dir...

please help.
/edit: the pendrive has USB2.0 - 128MB - default fat32 filesys

Thanks
--much
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