Running xorg over xvesa

[bmarkus]

Good morning.

I believe I have found another discrepancy between the .tce libbrary and .tcz library.

I am in the process of converting from the .tce library to the .tcz  per recent comments in other threads. In doing this, I discovered that the process outlined in this thread of "Running xorg over xvesa" does not work with components chosen from  the .tcz library.

Apparently, the install of Xorg.tcz does not write the call of Xorg into the .xsession file. I have not dug deeper trying to determine why.

My .xsession file left over from .tce days worked fine when I used it, instead.

Best Regards,

sci_fi

Thanks for the feedback. That's right, .tcz doesn't work. Originally in the WIKi article both .tce and .tcz were described but later on I removed reference to .tce expecting .tcz will work. Tests were done with .tce originally

Will look for root cause.

[bmarkus]

The problem is, that the tczl version of Xorg do not overrites /etc/Xserver as the .tcel version does, therefore startx starts Xvesa.

If you exit to prompt and edit /etc/sysconfig/Xserver and restart X it will work without editing .xession manually.

Solution would be to add a startup script to Xorg to modify /etc/sysconfig/Xserver instead of overwriting. This would be healthy for PPI compatibility too.

[tclfan]

Bela,
Thanks for pointing to the source of this issue.  As Xorg is vital to desktop and was made so easy in TC 2.3, could you please describe exactly what needs to be done to fix this for 2.4 from end user perspective?
Is this possible to fix tcz, so it works with 2.4 the easy way, the way it was working with 2.3? Xvesa does not work right with any of my laptops, so extrapolating this experience to other users, keeping Xorg option easy seems pretty much  important...

[bmarkus]

TCLFUN:

Read WIKI article how to use .tcz extension. The key point is

You can use Xorg-7.4.tczl also. In such case edit /etc/sysconfig/Xserver and replace Xvesa with Xorg. To make it permanent, add /etc/sysconfig/Xserver to /opt/.filetool.lst

This will go away as soon as the Xorg extension will be fixed by its creator.

BTW 2.3 and 2.4RC1 behaves on the same way. Difference is not using 2.3 or 2.4 but .tce or .tcz

[roberts]

I just now uploaded and updated version.
Replaced depreciated user.tar.gz with startup script.
It is working for me.
Please test and if works for you, please update the Wiki.
Thanks.

[tclfan]

Bela, Thank you. I understand it is not 2.4 but the tcz for Xorg that caused this setback. Because 2.4 standardizes on tcz (Which is a good move, of course), until tcz for Xorg is fixed we have this inconvenience.
Just hope tcz creator for Xorg will be able to fix this soon...

[tclfan]

I just realized that pending writing my post roberts posted the above...
Does this mean the Xorg tcz is fixed now?

[bmarkus]

Please test and if works for you, please update the Wiki.

Roberts,

thanks for the new .tczl version. Tested with 2.4rc1 both loaded into RAM and mounted, works as expected. WIKI article edited.

Béla

[tclfan]

Roberts, Bmarkus,
Thanks very much. Greatly appreciated...

[roberts]

Great! Glad to hear. Thanks for the Wiki update!