X don't display (stay in console mode) on my IBM A21p with Grafpup
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X don't display (stay in console mode) on my IBM A21p with Grafpup
Hi,
could you please give me some help regarding my X display.
If I boot on the grafpup live cd and choose the 1024*768*16 the X Display appears well and is workable.
Then I installed Grafpup with the so satified idea I have about BUT after a boot sequence (all seems ok) it stay in console mode.
Well I used the xorgwizard command and give the same selection used with the live cd boot.
I try again twice the xwin command and nothing happends. I well tried all the give resolution going to come back in cosole mode/black screen/a lot of colours (quickly escaped to save my video card).
Well, well, well...
I remember I also have some problem with the previous ubuntu installed distro and also tried the give parameters with my new grafpup. Doesn't work.
Then I am now coming to you and I hope somebody can give me help to be able to use my installed grafpup.
If the boot is set up for a graphical system, then X will produce errors when it fails. If not, then you will get a text login shell without any fuss. Which happens?
From a text login, you can try just entering "startx" and see what happens.
it is so true I forgot to tell that was the first command I tried.
In fact no error message I just received a prompt on console mode.
Then thinking the X don't start (by default, may be) I launched the startx command that tried and display a cross in the center of the screen but directly come back to the console mode by giving the explanation text : blablabla using xorgwizard and after that try display the X with the command xwin blablabla...
And then it becomes what I said before. X don't display.
yesterday I tried to see what happends with a fresh startx after a normal boot.
It doesn't give the command lines I told (xorgwizard and xwin proposition) as I said.
But it give a complete black screen.
Here is my xorg.conf to help me. I set all the colour in 16 and effectively in 1024*768.
Sincerely thanks for your help.
Have a nice day,
Miguipda ;-)
***********************************
#Special base config file used in Puppy Linux.
# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this section is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **********************************************************************
#
Section "Module"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
# This loads the font modules
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
# This loads xtrap extension, used by xrandr
Load "xtrap"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/rgb"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
# **********************************************************************
# Server flags section.
# **********************************************************************
Section "ServerFlags"
# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><Fn> VT switch sequence
# (where n is 1 through 12). This allows clients to receive these key
# events.
# Option "DontVTSwitch"
# Enables mode switching with xrandr
# There is a report that this can cause Xorg not to work on some
# video hardware, so default is commented-out...
# but i want to use it in xorgwizard so leave on...
Option "RandR" "on"
EndSection
#everything past here is auto-generated by Puppy's Xorg Wizard...
I will see this evening.
Then this means I just need to replace "Driver "ati" #card0driver" with "Driver "vesa" #card0driver". Am I well understood ?
I don't understand what you call ttys ?
Is it the six other console habitually available from the F1 to F6 function key ? I tried it but doesn't work. But if I type mc in the console mode it display a perfect (resolution) midnight commander.
Just a thought. This is something I have done when a live CD works and an install does not.
Copy the /etc/X11/Xorg.conf file from the (working) live system to the same place in the file tree of the installed version, then reboot to the installed system and see if it works.
I would suggest that you should save the non-working one in the /etc/X11 directory so you can copy it back.
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