How I got x.org up and running

regeya · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 2:40 am Post subject:

The only oddities I ran into (which I fixed, mostly):

As a KDE user, and one who sometimes switches keymaps (hey, sometimes I need to use a Spanish keymap; it's rare, but sometimes I do

) kxkb was still trying to set the keybord model as "logiink" (Logitech Internet Navigator keyboard.) As of xorg-x11, that should be "logicink". Such a simple change, but it caused me to scratch my head.

That, and my mousetype is no longer properly detected by Protocol "Auto". I found that if I specify "IMPS/2", though, everything works fine.

Since I don't have any exotic needs, everything seems to be fine now.

Grimmier · n00b Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Posts: 11

hrm I keep getting a segmentation fault

Insanity5902 · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 2:54 am Post subject:

Grimmier, post your error.
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Grimmier · n00b Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Posts: 11

hrm ok it says

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

i'm going to try this in a bit :-)

thanks for the tutorial.

AliceDiee · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 10:24 am Post subject:

Successfully switched to x.org yesterday.
Only one hint:
emerge -u world still wanted to install xfree, because of an incorrect dependency in lineakd.
Just copy the ebuild into your portage_overlay and change the DEPEND-Section at the beginning of the file, so it matches:

mr.twemlow · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 12:08 pm Post subject:

beginning of this forum, and everything seemed to turn out fine. But then, after unmerging xfree and merging xorg I found that I have no startx command. If I start /etc/init.d/xdm then the server starts up fine (and looks nice) but when I try to log in, I enter my username and pass, the screen blanks for a second and it takes me back to the log in.
Normally I start X by using the startx command. But that doesn't seem to exist. /usr/X11R6/bin/startx exists, but when I tried that it complained about "no such command as xauth." I looked in the file and commented that part out, just to see what would happen. Then it says "no such command as xinit."
The only thing I can think of that would do this is that I only emerge xorg, not xterm (or its two dependencies--rpm2targz and utempter). Am I going to need those? Or whats up?

EDIT: Sorry for the cut off at the top, it just says that I followed the instructions at... I'm doing this from links, and it might be messing up.

EDIT2: Silly me! I had updated something the same day and /etc/profile got removed. That prevented me from seeing startx on tab completion. Well... all's well now.
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Grimmier · n00b Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Posts: 11

hrm ok so i recompiled my kernel and turned off registered memory support and things compiled fine.

Yay!

NeighborhoodGullwings · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Posts: 159

I got xorg running just fine... after compiling, I had to change the font paths in the old config I copied from xfree and that was about it. It looks pretty much the same so far.

Can't wait to see some of the freedesktop xserver merged in now

MooktaKiNG · Guru Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 326 Location: London, UK

MooktaKiNG · Guru Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 326 Location: London, UK

now that i think about it. That might be a different problem ^^

forgive my ignorance.

Anyway, that was one problem that keep me up a night or two

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fourhead · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:14 pm Post subject:

just for the ones who are not sure if they should switch or not: i unmerged xfree, just emerged xorg-x11, copied XF86Config to xorg.conf, edited he font paths and that was it. works perfectly, loads faster but i didn't notice any other improvements yet. i was about to set up a linux box for my father this wee and decided to go with xorg-x11 completely, this one also works perfectly. so i suggest everybody to give it a try to help xorg-x11 move from ~x86 to x86 as quick as possible :-)

tom

Noth · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:30 pm Post subject:

agnitio · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 136

Hi there!

I just felt like thanking everyone in this thread for helping me build up the courage to dare to make the switch

Seems to me like font rendering is much more clear than in my old Xfree and it does seem a bit quicker. I love it!

huru · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 1:54 pm Post subject:

Also "switched" to x.org server. Or more like did fresh install (had to do it anyway after repartitioning and stuff) and never installed Xfree in first place. Working now without trouble with Nvidia drivers 1.0.5341 and kernel 2.6.5-gentoo-r1

Can't wait to get KDE and the rest compiled.

Slightly offtopic, 2.6.5 kernel seems to boot up really quickly compared to 2.4.x, first time I was like wtf, is it broken and left some bootup procedures undone?

Also starting up X seems fast now. Then again I can't really tell since I'm stuck with twm atm

Only thing that troubles me is broken consoles after X starts (using framebuffer and not planning to disable it) and if I should switch to pure udev system or keep devfs.
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pontifikas · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 2:17 pm Post subject:

This is crap!!
I cant make DRI to work. :evil:

I have 2.6.5-r1.mm-sources, ATI RADEON 9100

I unmerged xfree and emerged xorg.
Everything done smoothly.No errors no nothing.
I then run xorgconfig and Everything configured(actually exactly the same as xfree).
opengl-update xorg-x11
I run startx and I get 150 FPS in glxgears. :evil:

I cannot even load fglrx.

XF86Config-4 is more powerfull than XF86Config.Does the same goes with xorg.conf?

I even reemerge ati-drivers(again no errors at all) and removed xorg.conf and again nothing.

I folloed instructions found in this forum(symlink xorg->xfree and the like) but again nothing.

Has anyone the same specifications that managed to get this working and how?
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juppe22 · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 74

I can't get nvidia-glx driver working..I think everything else works really nice, but not glx...any help??

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juppe22 · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 74

Thanks MooktaKiNG...I got my glx working...

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AliceDiee · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 9:14 pm Post subject:

pontifikas · Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 2:12 pm Post subject:

ironyengine · Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 6:00 pm Post subject:

The following:

Dr Gonzo · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2004 5:37 am Post subject:

Yeah.

X11R6.7 -- Always wanted to run the original X Window System.

Just goes to show, it doesn't pay (or not pay, in the open source world) to expect everybody to bow down to you just because you maintain a windowing system. Or to write a license that's incompatible with the GPL and expect it to fly. Eric Raymond should have some interesting things to say about this.

I got it up and running, relatively painlessly. I don't think there's really any noticeable difference, even in games, but that's a damn good thing. I think that the differences people are talking about are mainly due to the placebo effect. We'll see new functionality soon, I would guess.

Have to say, it was a little easier to upgrade to X.Org on my laptop than on my Gentoo box -- Dropline Gnome on Slack included it this week.

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