frosterrj Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 So I set up my urpmi sources to point to 10.1CE sites, let it run, all seems to go ok, but kernel 2.6.8 wasnt downloaded and there also seems to be no X installed either. Before I started went to init 3 and urpmi'd from there. Re-boot today and used my old kernel, but only got as far as loggin in in a console, tried startx, and errors out (err2) something about not liking /etc/X11/X, cant remember exactly. Urpmi'd kernel2.6.8 and re-booted and no dice again. Tried urpmi xorg, but says everything already installed. hmmm.... Does xorg use startx? Anyone know what could be the prob? Not sure how to troubleshoot. Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 What is your video card? startx does indeed start x, regardless of xorg or XFree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frosterrj Posted September 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 this is an old dell PII laptop with the NeoMagic MagicMedia 256 AV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frosterrj Posted September 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2004 OK, so I just upgraded using the ISOs and the "upgrade" option did not work since there was no "X" after the upgrade. Had to re-install using the "install" option instead which produced some interesting things: 1: the install routine saw my external usb cd-rw and allowed me to use it instead of the internal cd-rom drive. This wa significant since the internal is the original from the pII days and is quite a bit slower than the external Iomega 52x24x52 cd-rw using usb 1.0. I was able to cut the "install" time by at least half from the "upgrade" time using the internal cd. That's the first time that has happened. Thanks to Udev??? 2. The default cursor theme is great! Hourglass that spins AND has sand you can see moving. Hey, its _almost_ like winblows! LOL 3. THe Evolution migration is perfect. Since I did nothing to my /home partition, first launch of Evo migrated all my mbox mail, AND, AND (emphasis) let me keep for future migration my old data that it could not move. That must be Not Zed of the evo devel team doing his homework. 4. Since I use a DWL-650 wireless lan card (realtek 8180?) with the driverloader kernel module, I have a coulple of issues with the new kernel and udev to get the card working. Mainly the web interface for loading the WinXP modules get refused. That's the first time this has happened. I'm sure Jonathan at Linuxant will get this straightened out ASAP and I will have a completely (havent tried everything yet) working MDK 10.1 in no time. Not sure what caused the FTP upgrade to bork the Xorg, but in my /etc/X11 directory there is an "!X" entry whose size was something like 26 bytes which I think is the culpret. Anyone else have this? When I tried startx I kept gettting xinit errors which seem to point to the /etc/X11 directory. Good luck with the urpmi --auto select upgrades. Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 26, 2004 Report Share Posted September 26, 2004 [root@localhost root]# file /etc/X11/X /etc/X11/X: symbolic link to `../../usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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