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Running Xorg not Xversa
linuxnovo:
Hope someone can help me. I am using an old Toshiba laptop with only 256 ram. It is a Toshiba Satellite model number 1800-S253. Now, I tried to run a live iso of TCL and it failed to load the Xversa
desktop but will work in commandline. I had similar trouble running Puppy Linux. In the xorgwizard, the xversa option was automatically disabled and gave an error message that the video card would crash with xversa. It appears to be a hardware limitation. So the question is, how can I buildup Xorg or framebuffer from just the basic microcore. Any help is definitely wanted.
gerald_clark:
Xorg and many hardware drivers are in the repo.
You can use tce-ab to select and view the extensions.
Juanito:
..and you can also use Xfbdev
linuxnovo:
Is there a tutorial somewhere that you could suggest????? Yes, I am using the commandline browser and can download any .tcz that I need. But I am still in the dark I am afraid. I think I need to configure Xorg. Thanks for your help so far.
linuxnovo:
Here is basically what I am now doing to get X running.
I have Core Plus on a live CD and am booting from this disk.
I am booting Core to the command line only with these boot commands:
/boot/vmlinuz initrd=/boot/core.gz loglevel=3 base
added: vga=791 to allow use of the full screen.
From a mounted flash drive I am installing the following using tce-load -i
(.tcz is assumed as file extentions)
Xlibs
Xorg-7.6-bin
Xorg-7.6-lib
Xorg-7.6
Xorg-fonts
Xprogs
expat2
fltk-1.1.10
flwm_topside
fontconfig
pixman
Then returning to /
executed xsetup which returned to prompt
executed startx
just blank, illuminated screen results
I have not included wbar.tcz because I don't like it too much like Apple stuff and I am free thinker!
Anyone got any ideas?
Tiny Core runs well in command line but I need an Xserver to run mplayer, unetbootin etc
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