slack 7.1 xf86config buggy?!?

el_felipe · 12-18-2001, 11:38 AM

...I was thinking i'd never be able to use xf86config and have it work properly in my slack 7.1 untill I used it in the 8 release and in debian, which proved it works. I managed to set X up in slack 7.1 only thanx to XF86Setup.

And that's my question: has anyone got this problem? is slack 7.1 xf86config really buggy? now I'm a little more experienced and I'd probably find it out... but at that time (last year) it was driving me crazy!

thank you all

el felipe

trickykid · 12-18-2001, 11:45 AM

i always used the xf86config in slack 7.1.. always worked for me...

finegan · 12-18-2001, 01:30 PM

Nah, its just a matter of banging your head against it until it works... I must have spent hours fiddling with it on Slack and Deb machines. Setting up X is about the only good thing I can say about Mandrake and RedHat.

Cheers,

Finegan

Aussie · 12-19-2001, 08:57 AM

And for your set up enjoyment in XFree86-4.1.0 the all new "XFree86 -configure".....don't ask me how well it works, I only noticed it the other day when I was looking for something else in the man page....

finegan · 12-19-2001, 10:48 AM

Actually, XFree86 -configure works just as well with down all the way to 4.0.2 and probably back to the beginning of 4.0.x It auto-magically set-up X for me on my LFS, although I hacked away at xf86config and actually got that to work too...
-configure maxed the screen settings and nailed the card's def and ram abilities, and its one of those crappy old ATI's that used to require a special X-server back in the 3.3.x days.

btw, anyone know what or how to generate a .Xauthority file?

-Cheers,

Finegan

el_felipe · 12-19-2001, 10:56 AM

...the only thing I can think of is my installation CD wasn't burned properly, I installed slack 7.1 so many times and never got xf86config working...

Anyway finegan,
I believed .Xauthority files were generated by X, uh? Didn't ever think about that

el felipe

gui10 · 12-19-2001, 01:39 PM

hm... i'm always saying the useless things... but finegan, i'm not sure what you mean... i thought the .Xauthority file is created when u try to start an x session with 'startx'?

or if u mean to hand-code an .Xauthority file... then i'm as blur as the next-door neighbour's artwork...

finegan · 12-19-2001, 01:42 PM

Hmm... Maybe I just have my permissions screwed up then. I can't get good old startx to work on my LFS as it keeps complaining that xinit kicked back a lack of an authority file, but I can start it from just shelling X. It doesn't really matter until I get a file manager and either KDE or Gnome on there anyway.

gui10 · 12-19-2001, 10:19 PM

hm... again more of my usless ramblings... i notice the .Xauthority file is always 0 in size.

how about u just create an empty .Xauthority file in your /home/user directory and try to start X from there?

eg. touch /home/user/.Xauthority