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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: j_75080 on October 27, 2011, 06:43:46 PM

Title: [SOLVED] Tiny Core fails to start X on Dell Latitude 300XT
Post by: j_75080 on October 27, 2011, 06:43:46 PM

Since the desktop boots to a green and yellow screen after Tiny Core installation, I used the "How to use framebuffer X server?" article in the Tiny Core FAQ http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/faq.html (http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/faq.html).   The screen looks normal after enacting the startx command.  Upon rebooting to the laptop after framebuffer X server was installed, my laptop stops with a "failed for waitforX" message.

I can repeatedly boot the laptop using the text boot code command [explained in framebuffer article] via LiveCD command prompt, but never can boot normally via grub.

How do I troubleshoot and resolve this X starting problem?

Title: Re: Tiny Core fails to start X on Dell Latitude 300XT
Post by: Juanito on October 28, 2011, 01:22:27 AM

Since you're using a dell laptop, I guess it has intel graphics - you could try using 915resolution?

Title: Re: Tiny Core fails to start X on Dell Latitude 300XT
Post by: curaga on October 28, 2011, 02:25:27 AM

Google says Neomagic/2mb. To see any errors from Xfbdev, run the first line of .xsession without the error redirection.

Title: Re: Tiny Core fails to start X on Dell Latitude 300XT
Post by: j_75080 on January 07, 2012, 05:44:12 PM

After removing the error redirection, I get the following message in /tmp/wm_errors:
     Can't open display:  :0.0

What does this mean?

Title: [SOLVED] Re: Tiny Core fails to start X on Dell Latitude 300XT
Post by: j_75080 on January 15, 2012, 12:12:56 PM

Using the "How to use framebuffer X server" article with a vga=791 and installing Xorgs-7.6.tcz extension before starting X (startx), Tiny Core 4.1 looks good and the installation works very well after rebooting.  Thus, the Xorgs-7.6 video driver for this difficult Neomagic video display works much better than the Xvesa extension.  In the future, I will upgrade to the current version of Tiny Core Linux.