Re: New install - boot, 'startx', freeze.
Mark Filipak <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 03/25/2015 11:55 PM, Lucas C. Villa Real wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Mark Filipak -snip- > Are you late? (Shame on you :-) Hahahahaha.... > > I'm always running late. You better get used to it. :-) As Ian Anderson sang: "Life's a long song..." > ... you want me to open the '.iso' image and > use the text below to replace the existing > '/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf'. Then boot the live CD and install Gobo > and see if booting the newly installed version, see if 'startx' works. > > Do I have this right? > > No. Boot normally into the installed system, then replace its existing > /System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf with the text I sent in my previous > email. Afterwards, try 'startx' again. Bottom line: No joy. This is what I had constructed ahead of time: echo 'Section "ServerLayout"'>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' Identifier "Xorg Configured"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo 'EndSection'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ''>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo 'Section "Module"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' Load "glx"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' Load "extmod"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' Load "dbe"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' Load "dri"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo 'EndSection'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ''>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo 'Section "Monitor"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' Identifier "Monitor0"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' VendorName "Monitor Vendor"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' ModelName "Monitor Model"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' Option "DPMS"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo 'EndSection'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ''>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo 'Section "Device"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' Identifier "Card0"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' Driver "vesa"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo 'EndSection'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ''>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo 'Section "Screen"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' Identifier "Screen0"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' Device "Card0"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ' Monitor "Monitor0"'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo 'EndSection'>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf echo ''>>/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf and then I couldn't figure out how to paste it into the terminal without a mouse to right-click, so I had to type it in manually, line-by-line. Then, when I entered 'startx', I discovered I'd made a mistake. I had to 'cat' the log file to see the mistake. Then I used 'vi' to edit the file. Egad. It had been 40 years since I last used vi. When I entered 'startx', I got the same gray screen with mouse cursor in the center, non-working, and no keyboard action.