Another thin client awaits a TC install

[curaga]

fbdev performance is the same as Xvesa. Xorg might help, the sis driver claims XV acceleration, but buggy hw or driver might interfere.

Certainly worth a try though. Perhaps the cpu is powerful enough to play a dvd on the default Xvesa even

[Triophile]

Rich, curaga - many thanks for the fast, informative replies. Much appreciated :-)

curaga: would you happen to have the download link for the Sis driver? I'll give that a go first. A change to PS/2 mouse and keyboard has lightened the load slightly, so Flash has taken another small step towards smoothness, but only on low-res stuff really. Still, better than nothing!

Cheers, Jon.

[Triophile]

Mmmm, on the SIS site, there's a driver for Redhat from 2002. Is there some way I could use that?

Cheers, Jon.

[Rich]

Hi Triophile
I believe the driver curaga is referring to is the one included in  graphics-2.6.33.3-tinycore.tcz
extension.

[curaga]

I mean the one included in Xorg, if you download it from appbrowser you'll get the right one.

[Triophile]

Ah, OK, I'll give that a go.

Fingers crossed we have extra speed!

Cheers, Jon.

[Triophile]

Ah, the black screen of Xorg, followed by 'startx', followed by 'ERROR: Could not map MMIO area' and 'ERROR: SiSMapMem() failed'.

Below that were 'Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInitfailed for driver 0' and 'XIO: fatal IO error 104...'

Is this happening because I have no swap file, or some kind of config or driver problem?

Cheers, Jon.

[curaga]

Please post your Xorg.0.log.

[Triophile]

How do I get the desktop back, so I can navigate to the Xorg log?

Cheers, Jon.

[maro]

@Triophile: To kill a running (but useless) X server you could give 'Ctrl-Alt-Backspace' a try. Or use 'Ctrl-Alt-F1' which should get you back to the first TTY (which you most likely used to start the X server). Bear in mind that the X server might still be running, so it might be a good idea to ensure that it gets terminated before grabbing the 'Xorg.0.log' file.

[curaga]

"echo Xvesa | sudo tee /etc/sysconfig/Xserver
startx"

[Triophile]

OK, finally had time for another go at this...

Restarted, got to a black screen with the prompt 'tc@box', then tried 'Ctrl-Alt-Backspace'. No joy there, I'm afraid, and the same for 'Ctrl-Alt-F1'.

curaga: I'm slightly unsure about the syntax in the suggestion in your post. In:

"echo Xvesa | sudo tee /etc/sysconfig/Xserver
startx"

does the unbroken vertical line represent a new line, or should I type the first line in whole? I tried both, but couldn't find the unbroken vertical line character on my British keyboard on a TC install with the default US keymap. I tried typing in:

"echo Xvesa", return.
(Response onscreen was, "Xvesa")
"sudo tee /etc/sysconfig/Xserver", return,
(response was blank line)
"startx"
(response was "startx", still on a black screen, but no desktop).

I tried running TC live in case that would allow me to have a look at the folder that way, but got messages talking about problems enumerating USB device on port 3 (presumably the CD drive I was trying to boot from), and ended up back on a black screen with tc@box again. I'm growing increasingly suspicious there's something wrong with the CD drive...

Anyway, I wiped TC, re-installed XPe, and I'll check the thin client's still working OK, If it is, I'll re-install TC once more, and try the Xorg again. Should I do anything differently this time, or just install Xorg like last time from the appbrowser?

Cheers, Jon.

[Rich]

Hi Triophile
The | character is really two short vertical lines end to end with a small gap between them. On my
keyboard it is on the \ key.

[curaga]

An alternative way would've been to remove Xorg from onboot.lst and reboot, perhaps using a livecd.

Without seeing the log I can't say much. Which version of Xorg did you use?

[Triophile]

Thanks for that, Rich.

curaga, I was trying Xorg 7.6. Would 7.4 maybe be a safer bet? If my CD drive was working properly, I had hoped to take the LiveCD route, but it didn't work for me...

I'll re-install in a min, and have another crack.

Cheers, Jon.