using fbdev as the driver. as su, i type startx. i get a red screen and eventually a warning about using the gui as root. after a while i can pull up the menubar at the bottom, try to load anything and it just sits in the bar with the hour glass, not doing anything.
startx as a regular user i get a blue screen and only a blue screen. nothing happens. there's no menu bar, nothing. eventually i push control alt delete to get out of it.
and yes, these are default packages, only using cd1.
i guess you could say i get a decent display in X now that i put the fbdev driver to use.
what's the next step?
On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 09:44 PM, Stew Benedict wrote:
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, entropy wrote:
I am not sure who you were talking about with config someone else posted, i couldn't find it in the archives... below are my config and logs.
there is no mentioned of fbdev in defaultl XFconfig-4. i added it and it died with ....
(==) FBDEV(0): Backing store disabled (**) Option "dpms" (**) FBDEV(0): DPMS enabled (==) RandR enabled (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM (II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension (II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD (II) Initializing built-in extension LBX (II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP (II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY (II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA (II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont (II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER (II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument (II) Keyboard "Keyboard1" handled by legacy driver (**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" (**) Mouse1: Protocol: "IMPS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse1: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse" (**) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Mouse1: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Mouse1: Buttons: 5 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE) (II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
i could sort of log in with root, but it was pretty screwed up. there was nothing and software would not run, just sit there, 'loading' forever... loading a regular account gives a blank blue screen and nothing else.
OK, you're loosing me. So X works or not? If you get a decent looking
display and a mouse then you're beyond the X issue. No applications or
menus, etc. is a different issue. I tweaked the packages on CD1 and when
I did a default install here I got a working KDE and Gnome from the single
CD. Did you use the default package selection?
Before I reworked that package list, I was getting a hang in starting the
Xsession due to drakfw hanging due to missing gtkdialogs, which was on the
CD but not installed, even though it's required. I added it to rpmsrate
on the RC1 release and it was installed here. I also added mozilla,
galeon and their requirements.
Stew Benedict
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