xorg / xvesa

[cast-fish]

Hello TCL team,

Please can you tell me if there is a way to swtich betweeb Xorg and Xvesa.

The system here has

1)  a raw virgin boot of TCL from cd disc   (Xvesa is used)
2) some APP is installed and also loads Xorg
3) xserver is restarted and indeed TCL is now running Xorg

4) How to switch back to Xvesa?  (easily?)

is there a way or does  the module need disabling(xorg) before you can restart the Xserver
and get back to Xvesa?

thanks

V

[gerald_clark]

What app loads Xorg?
Why do you think an app loads Xorg.
How do you know it switches to Xorg?
Why do you want to switch back on the fly?

[cast-fish]

1) dwb
2) it has dependency of Xorg (but it runs perfectly fine in Xvesa)
3) when i re-start the xserver you can't edit "xvesa" via its button. The xvesa app does not open.
4) i want to be able to re-start the xserver at will (to refresh TCL) but when i restart it loads"xorg" (i  want xvesa loaded)


V

[Rich]

Hi cast-fish
It's possible the .dep file has a typo. Maybe the dependency was supposed to be  Xorg-7.6-lib.tcz. A lot of apps depend on that.

[cast-fish]

Hi Rich

not sure what you mean.

When you load the "dwb" app it pulls down Xorg also.
Then when you restart Xserver....xorg is loaded up...and runs.

in other words, you can't restart the xserver if you have "dwb"
on your system, without the restart causing "xorg" to load up and run

V

[gerald_clark]

It is my opinion that no program should have a dep on Xvesa, Xorg, or Xfbdev.
That program should have a note in the info file.
Installing such a program tramples the users X choice without warning.

[Juanito]

If we're speaking of dwb in the tc-4.x x86 repo,
 it has Xorg-7.6 as a dep, which is wrong.

[Rich]

Hi cast-fish
Open the  dwb.tcz.dep  file in your  tce/optional  directory and change  Xorg-7.6.tcz  to  Xorg-7.6-lib.tcz

[cast-fish]

Hello

juanto that is correct.

Rich, i will try your idea

V

[cast-fish]

Hello Rich,

tried your idea but it won't run "dwb"

it says missing "libGL.so"............

hmmm

V

[Rich]

Hi cast-fish

it says missing "libGL.so"............

Well that's a problem,  libGL.so  is only in the Xorg-7.*.tcz  extensions, so it looks like Xorg really is a dependency.

[thane]

According to the Apps 'Provides' function, libGL.so is available in the libGL.tcz extension.

[Juanito]

Yes, but only in tc-5.x and tc-6.x as I recall

[cast-fish]

hello

you are all correct...


I don't know if repo's 5.x and 6.x contain the "dwb" browser .....hmmm


thanks

V.

 

[cast-fish]

any way around this?


can you unload the module or something?


V