Re: New install - boot, 'startx', freeze.

On 03/26/2015 10:44 PM, Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
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> The thing about Gobo trying to sniff out the VM is because Xorg's
> automatic configuration either hangs when probing certain drivers or
> produces settings that will not work when the host is under QEMU (at
> least that is what my experience has shown). For that reason, we ship a
> default xorg.conf that QEMU deals with just fine.

"...default xorg.conf" ?????

dingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingding

I installed Gobo all 3 ways. I kept notes. The following is from my notes:
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Original '/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf'...

-- Selecting the "Base" package doesn't install X, so
'/System/Settings/X11/' is empty.

-- Selecting the 'Typical' package doesn't install
'/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf'.

-- Selecting the 'Full' package doesn't install
'/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf'.
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Bottom line: Unless I create 'xorg.conf', it doesn't exist.

> Now, I remember facing a similar problem before: the mouse would just
> not work on QEMU for some weird reason. However, I noticed that by
> forcing Udev to get device events from the kernel one more time
> ("udevadm trigger"), the input device would then be discovered.

Ahhhh.... I remember something similar in VMware many years ago. It was
not sniffing the VM. It was sniffing the (virtualized) hardware. Lord...
I can't remember the details. All I remember is that a VMware client
needed to do some sort of mojo to get the (virtualized) hardware to
work. VMware eventually was able to fix that at the virtual end instead
of at the OS-driver end, but I can't remember how they did it.

> Two simple things that you can do are:
> 1) type 'udevadm trigger' in the console
> 2) type 'gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2' and check that the cursor
> moves in the console

Re #1: What's supposed to happen?
Re #2: The tty console has no mouse, so how can I move it?

I did the 2 steps above and took a screen shot here:
http://markfilipak.com/GoboLinux.png

The cursor didn't do anything special.