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Offline marky

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Re: Xvesa fix and/or resolution choice on boot
« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2017, 04:42:10 AM »
To fix things, you will either need to reboot or, if /etc/sysconfig/Xserver=Xvesa, exit to the prompt using the exit icon and "startx"
Done that, it didn't change a thing.

How did you generate it in the first place ?
Just copied and pasted from onboot.lst

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If I were you, I'd re-configure the onboot.lst
How?

Offline polikuo

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Re: Xvesa fix and/or resolution choice on boot
« Reply #16 on: August 10, 2017, 05:26:33 AM »
How did you generate it in the first place ?
Just copied and pasted from onboot.lst

I mean where ? Which ISO ?

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If I were you, I'd re-configure the onboot.lst
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Replace the content inside with default xbase.lst
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Xvesa.tcz
aterm.tcz
flwm_topside.tcz
wbar.tcz

Offline marky

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[SOLVED] Re: Xvesa fix and/or resolution choice on boot
« Reply #17 on: August 10, 2017, 07:24:20 AM »
Xlibs in onboot.lst turned out to be a problem.
After deleting it from there all runs smooth now.
On first reboot the resolution choice has appeared and now I can change it any time i want it from the ControlPanel on both computers.
How Xlibs got in there is a little mysterious for me as I've never messed up with the system settings except installing some apps.

Anyway, thanks for your help guys.
« Last Edit: August 10, 2017, 07:28:20 AM by marky »

Offline polikuo

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Re: [SOLVED] Re: Xvesa fix and/or resolution choice on boot
« Reply #18 on: August 10, 2017, 07:43:17 AM »
Xlibs in onboot.lst turned out to be a problem.
After deleting it from there all runs smooth now.
On first reboot the resolution choice has appeared and now I can change it any time i want it from the ControlPanel on both computers.
How Xlibs got in there is a little mysterious for me as I've never messed up with the system settings except installing some apps.

Anyway, thanks for your help guys.

I don't think so.
Xlibs is required to start a X server.
Is it redundant to be listed in onbllt.lst? Yes.
Is it the cause to your misery? No.
The other files are more likely to bring about the trouble.

Offline marky

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Re: Xvesa fix and/or resolution choice on boot
« Reply #19 on: August 10, 2017, 08:00:15 AM »
Well, Xlibs is not now in onboot.lst and all is fine.
But it is still listed as present after that ...| grep X command along with: Xorg-7.7-lib, Xprogs and Xvesa and a long list of others as well.
Startx from prompt is working, BTW.
« Last Edit: August 10, 2017, 08:04:12 AM by marky »

Offline Juanito

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Re: Xvesa fix and/or resolution choice on boot
« Reply #20 on: August 10, 2017, 08:02:41 AM »
That's because an extensions dependencies are loaded recursively - see:

http://tinycorelinux.net/8.x/x86/tcz/Xvesa.tcz.tree

Offline coreplayer2

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Re: Xvesa fix and/or resolution choice on boot
« Reply #21 on: August 10, 2017, 08:53:31 AM »
It's strange that this is not the first time recently a forum OP has inadvertently messed up their onboot.lst so badly that systems no longer boot as desired..   Becoming a trend?  There must be a good reason why this is happening, right?
« Last Edit: August 10, 2017, 08:56:44 AM by coreplayer2 »