[RULE] TinyX/Kdrive configuration

[James Miller]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Michael Fratoni wrote:
>
> (Sorry for the delay, I've been out of town for a week.)
>
No problem.  Thanks for following up.

> How did you install TinyX? Did you install it on it's own, or as part of
> the "Slinky" install? If TinyX is selected during the slinky install,
> then X should "just work". This does however assume that your video
> hardware is supported by the kdrive servers.
>
Installed as part of a Slinky install (from the ISO).  Video board is
Trio64v+ (2MB) PCI.  Monitor is an older Epson EVGA.  I've gotten a decent
display out of this arrangement on other Linuces using the xsvga server
and entering in the right refresh rates (found by trial and error).
>
> Can you provide the error message in detail? You can grab a screenshot of
> the console and write it to a floppy like so:
> Insert a floppy, then enter:
> mount /mnt/floppy
> Change to VT2 (using alt + F2) and then enter:
> cat /dev/vcs1 > /mnt/floppy/out.file
>
I'll just try the old-fashioned method :)

-------begin startx error output------------------
hostname: Unknown host

Interrupt pointer doesn't point at ROM ->(this message 4 times)
Fatal server error
no screens found
XIO: Fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining
---------end startx error output-------------------

Again, I get this after I run startx from the command line, after which
point the screen simply goes black.  To see the error output, I must
ctrl-alt-Fx back to the console from which I ran startx.

Before going on to provide other error messages as asked, let me mention a
couple of more things.  The message "spurious 8259A interrupt IRQ 7"
appears among the text at bootup (and under dmesg).  I've seen this
message with other Linuces I've installed on this machine as well.  I'm
not sure if it's at all relevant.  Also, the CD drive was acting up a bit
(a couple of error messages) during the install, so I can't totally
exclude the possibility that I might have some corrupted files on the
drive.

> Can you also provide a few other details?
> The output of the following commands:
> rpm -qa | grep XFree

XFree86-libs-4.3.0-2
XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-2
XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-2
XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-2
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2
XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-2
XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-2
XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-2
XFree86-4.3.0-2
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-2
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2
XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-2
XFree86-tools-4.3.0-2
XFree86-TinyX-4.3.0-5RULE

> ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Jun 15 21:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/X
-> /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa

> The following files:
> /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
>
How?  Can I send attachments to this list?  Do I send this to you
personally?

> /home/(username)/.xinitrc

I'm trying to run X as root: I haven't added any users yet.  There is no
.xinitrc in root's home dir.

James


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