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indiepop

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Posted: Nov. 24 2005,05:50

I have successfully installed DSL to my old 365XD and it works great! Right?

Well, almost.

The screen is actually LCD and I have an XF86Config file that I can use for it. It works great under 3.3, but I haven't tried it in 4 as yet.

The problem is: I made the changes recommended by the XFree86 DSL installer to the /home/dsl/.xserverrc file, and when I startx I get a message telling me

"/usr/x11r6/bin/Xfree86 was not found" or something like that, then X fails to start.

the correct XF86Config-4 file is there, but I can find no instance of XFree86 installed under the dsl account.

The colors on the screen are about to kill my eyes. Please help!

indiepop

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Posted: Nov. 24 2005,05:58

specific error message:

/home/dsl/.xserverrc: line 1: /usr/bin/X11R6/bin/XFree86: No such file or directory

followed by a cannot execute and xinit crashes (obvs).

indiepop

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Posted: Nov. 24 2005,17:41

update: i forgot to compile the installer with

myDsl-load XFree86.dsl

now that I did that, the color schema is all wrong. this laptop was able to do reasonably good color in Windows as I recall but not so much with X.

aaaugh! what can I do to fix this? i am choosing the DSL fb800x600 at the loader, I've tried running Xsetup.sh, I've done all the things suggested here and from Google searches. even the load-up DSL "Penguin" Screen from the LiveCD is more robust than my desktop!

Anyone?

indiepop

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Posted: Nov. 25 2005,21:43

anyone at all? i have tried booting vga=normal and vga=788, either way its no good in X. the old XFConfig file I have for 3.3 did beautiful graphics, this XFree86.dsl, I'm getting nowhere with. Xvesa is no good either.

any suggestions at all?

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Posted: Nov. 28 2005,21:36

Having similar problems with IBM 600 Thinkpad. This system has a 1024x768 display, but I am having the same issue. Will let you know if I figure anything out.

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