[Peeweelinux] XFree86 setup help

Ed Anuff [email protected]
Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:53:40 -0700


Ok, success!  I just needed to at the pty entries in the "Configure Project
File System" menu and it works.

Just to recap, required steps:

1) Created the /etc/X11/XF86Config file with FontPath set to the following:
    FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"

2) Link XF86_SVGA -> X

3) Added libm, libdl, libncurses libraries

4) Added necessary ptys in /dev

Ed

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Anuff" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Peeweelinux] XFree86 setup help


> Another update - sorry to bother people with this, but maybe my experience
> will help someone out in the future.
>
> I fixed the font issue by changing the FontPath entry in XF86Config to
read:
>
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
>
> I then found I needed to add libncurses.
>
> Now startx gets further, draws the desktop and then dies with "xterm: no
> available ptys".
>
> Ed
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Anuff" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [Peeweelinux] XFree86 setup help
>
>
> > I've made some progress.  Here's what I've done so far:
> >
> > 1) Created the /etc/X11/XF86Config file
> > 2) Link XF86_SVGA -> X
> > 3) Added libm and libdl libraries
> >
> > It now makes some progess starting with startx but dies with:
> > FontTransSocketUNIXConnect : can't connect : errno = 111
> > Failed to set default font path 'unix:7100'
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> >
> > I assume this means that I'm either missing a required font or I need to
> > change the FontPath in the XF86Config to "unix:-1"?
> >
> > Ed
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ricardo Trindade" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 3:36 PM
> > Subject: RE: [Peeweelinux] XFree86 setup help
> >
> >
> > > can you get it working calling the binary directly ?
> > > do you have XFS running ?
> > > do you have libm ? if not, perhaps you're missing packages, it's easy
> > > finding out which, with the peewee gui
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [email protected]
> > > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Ed Anuff
> > > Sent: segunda-feira, 8 de Julho de 2002 21:28
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: [Peeweelinux] XFree86 setup help
> > >
> > >
> > > I've created a symlink from usr/X11R6/bin/X ->
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
> > and
> > > tried to start with startx and I get the following errors:
> > > usr/X11R6/bin/X: error in loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: cannot
> open
> > > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Ed
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ricardo Trindade" <[email protected]>
> > > To: <[email protected]>
> > > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 11:08 AM
> > > Subject: RE: [Peeweelinux] XFree86 setup help
> > >
> > >
> > > > looks fine. what's your error ? did you notice if the servers are
> > > installed,
> > > > or if they are in individual packages ?
> > > >
> > > > one thing I noticed was the X symlink is not created, so try to run
> the
> > > > XServer with XFree86_SVGA (for example, if you use this server)
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [email protected]
> > > > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Ed Anuff
> > > > Sent: segunda-feira, 8 de Julho de 2002 17:46
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > Subject: Re: [Peeweelinux] XFree86 setup help
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps I'm not including all the relevant packages?  What packages
> did
> > > you
> > > > select in order to get it to work?  These are the packages I used:
> > > >
> > > > XFree86
> > > > XFree86-100dpi-fonts,
> > > > XFree86-75dpi-fonts
> > > > XFree86-FBDev
> > > > XFree86-libs
> > > > XFree86-stuff,
> > > > XFree86-twm
> > > > XFree86-xdm
> > > > XFree86-xfs
> > > > xpm
> > > >
> > > > Ed
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Ricardo Trindade" <[email protected]>
> > > > To: <[email protected]>
> > > > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 3:07 AM
> > > > Subject: RE: [Peeweelinux] XFree86 setup help
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I was able to setup XFree86 correctly out of the box. can you post
> > your
> > > > > concrete troubles ?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: [email protected]
> > > > > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Ed Anuff
> > > > > Sent: segunda-feira, 8 de Julho de 2002 3:11
> > > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > > Subject: [Peeweelinux] XFree86 setup help
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > (sorry for the previously HTML-formatted email)
> > > > >
> > > > > I've been trying to get XFree86 running but I haven't had any
luck.
> > Can
> > > > > someone please post the steps necessary?
> > > > >
> > > > > Ed
> > > > >
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