On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 14:34, Edward Rivenbark wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Ok, I have gotten XDirectFB to start correctly, but I'm having
> problems with using it as the default X server.
>
> I have edited the startx file as shown here:
>
> userclientrc=$HOME/.xinitrc
> userserverrc=$HOME/.xserverrc
> sysclientrc=/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
> sysserverrc=/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
> defaultclient=/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
> defaultserver=/usr/X11R6/bin/XDirectFB
> defaultclientargs=""
> defaultserverargs=""
> clientargs=""
> serverargs=""
>
> I have also added this line:
>
> xinit $client $clientargs -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XDirectFB -enableRoot
> -defaultOpacity 200 -ac -nolisten tcp & sleep 3 && DISPLAY=:0
> $serverargs
>
> I'm using Fedora Core and when I boot up it starts with the normal X
> server. Although, if I stop X by using init 3 and run startx, it works
> fine. I would appreciate any help.
Hi Edward,
Ville has already answered this, but perhaps I can be of further
assistance by providing some details of how I got XDirectFB playing
nicely with the gdm display manager. May be similar with other display
managers.
In /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf set the line 'VTAllocation=false'
Take note of the lines:
'StandardXServer=/usr/X11R6/bin/X' &
'command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X'
Either change those 2 lines to point to /usr/X11R6/bin/XDirectFB or
remove & re-create the symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/X to point to
/usr/X11R6/bin/XDirectFB.
You can also set other options for the X server on the 'command' line.
eg. 'command=/usr/X11R6/bin/XDirectFB -enableRoot -defaultOpacity 200
-ac -nolisten tcp'
That's it, reboot & see if it starts the display manager using
XDirectFB.
Also, Gentoo's emerge script for XDirectFB comes with a nice 'startxdfb'
script. Basically a hacked 'startx' to start things nicely & enable easy
starting of multiple XDirectFB Sessions.
eg. 'startxdfb' to start the first session, then 'startxdfb -- :1' to
start another on DISPLAY:1 etc..
I have attached 'startxdfb' for reference, edit the variables to suit,
but it should work on any distro with a standard XFree install.
Regards,
Rick
#!/bin/sh
userclientrc=$HOME/.xdfbrc
userserverrc=$HOME/.dfbserverrc
sysclientrc=""
sysserverrc=/usr/X11R6/bin/XDirectFB
serverargs=""
clientargs=""
if [ -f $userclientrc ]; then
clientargs=$userclientrc
else if [ -f $sysclientrc ]; then
clientargs=$sysclientrc
fi
fi
if [ -f $userserverrc ]; then
serverargs=$userserverrc
else if [ -f $sysserverrc ]; then
serverargs=$sysserverrc
fi
fi
display=:0
whoseargs="client"
while [ "x$1" != "x" ]; do
case "$1" in
--)
whoseargs="server"
;;
*)
if [ "$whoseargs" = "client" ]; then
clientargs="$clientargs $1"
else
serverargs="$serverargs $1"
case "$1" in
:[0-9]*)
display="$1"
;;
esac
fi
;;
esac
shift
done
if [ X"$XAUTHORITY" = X ]; then
export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority
fi
removelist=
# set up default Xauth info for this machine
mcookie=`mcookie`
for displayname in $display `hostname -f`$display; do
if ! xauth list "$displayname" | grep "$displayname " >/dev/null 2>&1; then
xauth add $displayname . $mcookie
removelist="$displayname $removelist"
fi
done
echo $serverargs
xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs
if [ x"$removelist" != x ]; then
xauth remove $removelist
fi
if command -v deallocvt > /dev/null 2>&1; then
deallocvt
fi
