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tinypoodle:
Possibly graphics driver modules, depending on card.

lolouis:

--- Quote from: Juanito on February 08, 2011, 05:54:19 AM ---You can use microcore, omit the Xvesa.gz package and use the Xorg-7.5 extension and deps instead.

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Thanks for pointing it out! Will do that.

lolouis:
OK. Following Juanito's advice, I started with a fresh installation of microcore, unpacked on hard drive and booted there (I guess "scattered" is what you call it) to which I (manually) added Xlibs and Xprogs (but not Xvesa), and later Xorg-7.5, Xorg-7.5-lib, Xorg-7.5-bin, Xorg-fonts and Xorg-7.5-xgi.

By the way, unpacked, microcore was a mere 9.5 MB. After adding the above, it has grown to over 50 MB. WOWOW! I guess that's a price the security paranoid must be prepared to pay  :o (and the reason why tinycore compromises with the much less desirable Xvesa - to remain small).

Now, with no special booting codes, the new system boots into a shell with user tc logged in. Entering 'startx' gets the following error message:

cat: can't open '/etc/sysconfig/Xserver': No such file or directory

So, I added a file named Xserver to /etc/sysconfig with "Xorg" written in it and rebooted the system.
At the end of the booting sequence the system now hangs for 10 seconds (it seems about to start the X server) but then gives the following message and boots, again, to a shell console:

hsetroot[3702]: segfault at 88 ip 08049cb4 sp bf927350 error 4 in hsetroot[8048000+4000]
tc@box:~$

Have I forgotten to add some required extension, or does anybody know what's going on here?

tinypoodle:

--- Quote from: lolouis on February 08, 2011, 09:43:58 PM ---the reason why tinycore compromises with the much less desirable Xvesa - to remain small

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compromises?
That is a matter of choice and preference, I couldn't see any compromise there at all, and e.g. for me would be one of the basic criteria in choosing a system, despite that I would admit that under many circumstances I would prefer the newer Xvesa extension and have occasionally even used Xorg, but it can make sense that whatever is smaller is chosen as default.

"the much less desirable Xvesa" according to your preferences which you make it sound like they would be shared by everyone...

Juanito:

--- Quote from: lolouis on February 08, 2011, 09:43:58 PM ---Have I forgotten to add some required extension, or does anybody know what's going on here?

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I've never tried this in scatter mode, but - based on tc-3.4 - if you do the following in "normal" mode, things should work:

1. Xprogs.gz, Xlibs.gz in /tce
2. flwm.tcz, wbar.tcz, Xorg-7.5.tcz (and deps) in /tce/optional and set "onboot"

You can subtitute flwm/wbar with the wm of your choice.

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