Praedor wrote:
> On Saturday 25 August 2001 08:19 am, Felix Miata wrote:
> > I looked into XFdrake, a shell script. It appears that it makes a call
> > to Xconfgurator, but if I try to run Xconfigurator, I get the exact same
> > result as trying to execute XFdrake.
> [...]
> > "Warning: server SVGA is not available (should be in
> > /mnt/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86) at /usr/bin/perl-install/Xconfigurator.pm at
> > line 385"
> [...]
> I did a looksee at my system's Xconfigurator.pm file. I have Mandrake 8.x+
> (almost Cooker). It resides in /usr/lib/libDrakX. I scanned through it and
> see nowhere within it any mention of a /mnt/usr anything. It has several
> lines directed to /usr/X11R6 and various subdirectories. Be that as it may,
> it appears to me that your Xconfigurator is looking in the wrong/non-existent
> place for XFree86.
I think that that was where it may have been supposed to look while
original installation was taking place.
> Do you have /mnt/usr?
No
> How/why did this come about?
I tried to install 8.0 on a system which has a perfectly operational
7.1.
> You can try another
> method. Go to /usr/X11R6/bin and run "XFree86 -configure".
I did that. I says do 'XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new'. That
appeared to do what was intended. Then I copied /root/XF86Config.new to
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (old /etc/XF86Config-4 was zero bytes). When I did
startx, I got:
"xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)
giving up
xinit: No such file in directory (errno 2) unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error"
I looked for /etc/X11/X and found no such file.
> First off,
> XFree86 should be in this location, not /mnt/usr/...etc. Second, running the
> above command will have XFree86 autoconfigure your system for you. It may
> not be the best, most desired setup but it should be a workable setup. You
> can then edit the config file from there or try running one of the x
> configuration apps after getting X running. At least you will end up with a
> proper form and function XF86config file in the proper location.
Certainly what I would expect not having first had the original install
fail. So far, no joy. Until I know what the real problem is, I have no
idea what, if anything, needs editing. I know the X server has to be set
in motion first, and then a window manager, before KDE can start, but
I've yet to find in what config and executable files this stuff is
found. /etc/rc5.d has nothing in it but links.
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