Please help with X

[t18]

Hello,

Tiny Core is new to me. I think it gives old hardware a wonderful chance to come back to life. I want to say thank to all the TC staff.

I've successfully installed it on my Pentium II laptop with 160 Mb RAM, Xvesa works pretty fine. Only Xmms is noisy while I switch among windows while it's running.

But I'd like to install at least software like Abiword, Gnumeric and Gimp, and they need X.

So I installed Xorg but unsuccessfully. Other than xvesa I installed:

• graphics
  Xorg
  Xorg-dev
  Xorg-3D
  Xorg-3D-dev
  flwm
  Xorg-jwm
  compiletc
  automake

and have built the latest siliconmotion driver, but it doesn't work.

Any way to get X working? Many thanks.

[Juanito]

Assuming you are using tc-15.x x86.

Boot without loading any extensions then:

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tce-load -i Xorg-7.7 flwm aterm wbar
startx
..and x should work.

[t18]

Thank you so much for your reply, Juanito.

Had to reinstall from scratch and now TC is in /dev/sda3, bootable partition.

The network is up and I can ping any website but can't download+install anything.
Tce-load gives me the error "  wget: bad address ' '   ".

What did I forget, please?

[Juanito]

After booting tinycore with a wired network connection does this work:

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ping -c2 repo.tinycorelinux.net

[Rich]

Hi t18
I just checked, the repo is down. That's why you are getting that error.

[Rich]

Hi t18
The repo is back up. tce-load should now work for you.

[t18]

Many thanks Rich, but just now (abt 07:00 GMT) it doesn't work.

"2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% loss".

Might it be down again?

[curaga]

The firewall blocks pings. Please ping google.com instead.

[t18]

Pinging Google works, downloading from the Tc repo doesn't.

[Juanito]

It's working for me:

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tce-load -w 9vx
Downloading: 9vx.tcz
Connecting to repo.tinycorelinux.net (128.127.66.77:80)
saving to '9vx.tcz'
9vx.tcz              100% |*********************************************************************************************| 1780k  0:00:00 ETA
'9vx.tcz' saved
9vx.tcz: OK


[Rich]

Hi t18
Pinging the repo will temporarily lock you out:

... About the ping, that's part of the port scanning protection. You essentially blocked yourself for a short time.

Also, check that your  tcemirror  file is correct:

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tc@E310:~$ cat /opt/tcemirror
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/

[curaga]

You can also set a mirror manually in the file Rich mentioned:
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=wiki:mirrors

[t18]

Also, check that your  tcemirror  file is correct:

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tc@E310:~$ cat /opt/tcemirror
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/

This was the problem. That file was blank. Fixed. 

And now...

Assuming you are using tc-15.x x86.

Boot without loading any extensions then:

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tce-load -i Xorg-7.7 flwm aterm wbar
startx
..and x should work.

GRRREEEAT WORK!!! Congrats and thank you so much my gurus!!!

It works! Now I'd like to fine-tune it like in Xvesa.
At the moment the resolution is 800x600 while should be 1024x768 and the touchpad can't double click on its pad, I have to use buttons.

Are there any more extensions to install to do that?

Attached is the Xorg.0.log file, it has some errors.

[Rich]

Hi t18

... and have built the latest siliconmotion driver, but it doesn't work. ...

Your Xorg.log file shows it's looking for it but can't find it:

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[   355.463] (==) Matched siliconmotion as autoconfigured driver 0
[   355.463] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 1
[   355.463] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 2
[   355.463] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 3
[   355.463] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[   355.463] (II) LoadModule: "siliconmotion"
[   355.466] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module siliconmotion
[   355.466] (EE) Failed to load module "siliconmotion" (module does not exist, 0)
After you built the driver, what did you do with it?

[t18]

Hi t18

... and have built the latest siliconmotion driver, but it doesn't work. ...

Your Xorg.log file shows it's looking for it but can't find it:

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[   355.463] (==) Matched siliconmotion as autoconfigured driver 0
[   355.463] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 1
[   355.463] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 2
[   355.463] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 3
[   355.463] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[   355.463] (II) LoadModule: "siliconmotion"
[   355.466] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module siliconmotion
[   355.466] (EE) Failed to load module "siliconmotion" (module does not exist, 0)
After you built the driver, what did you do with it?

...
Had to reinstall from scratch and now TC is in /dev/sda3, bootable partition.
...

I've reinstalled TC from scratch and kept the basic system, as Juanito suggested.
I haven't rebuilt nor reinstalled anything.

The above matches are part of the Xorg process, I've seen them on other distros.
And I wonder why it looks for the correct module and doesn't have it.