[SPARCbook] No luck on X configuration

troehr at nj-onramp.com troehr at nj-onramp.com
Sun Nov 17 16:03:51 CST 2002


Michael,

First of all, did the boot screen come up the same as before? If it recognized 
the framebuffer, you should see Tux in the upper lefthand corner while booting. 
Also, it will be a black background with white text.

These are the first clues that the framebuffer driver is working.

Tom

Quoting Michael Schwarz <mschwarz at multitool.net>:

> I've got the 2.3.5 kernel in and booted.  No luck on starting X,
> however.
> 
> As I said, I'm using Debian GNU/Linux.  I have a number of X servers 
> available:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        12480 Nov 17 15:24 X
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1674484 Apr 17  2002 XFree86
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        27494 Apr 17  2002 Xmark
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      4058428 Apr 17  2002 Xnest
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      2904028 Apr 17  2002 Xprt
> -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root      4379540 Apr 17  2002 Xvfb
> 
> Anyone know which one I want to use?
> 
> If it is XFree86, does anyone have a config file that works?
> 
> -- 
> Michael Schwarz
> http://www.multitool.net
> mschwarz at multitool.net
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