Re: configuring xf4, was Re: Can't configure 3rd button on mouse
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Sorry, I must have missed your problem. From what you said about a big
> cursor, I thought your resolution was something like 640x480 or
> 320x200, which would have meant the server discarded all the other
> resolutions because the horizontal or vertical ranges you specified
> don't allow for them.
See previous postings on this subject. At one time xf4 sort of worked...
>
> It looks like your X server is working properly. If you start your
> session with:
>
> $ startx
>
> what happens?
This is exactly the problem that prompted the attempt to start the server
by name, and, as reported then:
dwarf:~# startx
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec: X: not found
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
dwarf:~#
Looking at xserverrc, it seems exec is trying to start X without path
information. When I add the /etc/X11 path things start up fine. I have no
idea which process fragged this file, I've run so many different config
attempts.
Anyway, this puts me back to the place that started this.
I can't configure xf4 for no-virtual screens and get a working display.
The default screen is sized to fit the physical screen, but the mouse
thinks the screen is still virtual, and larger than the physical screen,
so the pointer doesn't click where it seems to be, but rather where it
thinks it is...
If I answer yes to virtual screens all the display modes are larger than
the screen, and basicly unuseful.
At this point, I can make startx work but wdm fails with a log like:
xdm error (pid 4128): server /usr/bin/X11/X cannot be executed
xdm error (pid 4126): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
xdm error (pid 4131): server /usr/bin/X11/X cannot be executed
xdm error (pid 4126): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
xdm error (pid 4133): server /usr/bin/X11/X cannot be executed
xdm error (pid 4126): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
xdm error (pid 4137): server /usr/bin/X11/X cannot be executed
xdm error (pid 4126): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1
xdm error (pid 4126): Display :0 is being disabled
This looks like wdm (actually it looks like xdm, but no xdm is
installed...) is looking in a different place than startx. I guess I can
go put a link there as well, but then I need to manage two links? Why is
this so obnoxiously overcomplex?
Placing a link in /usr/bin/X11/X seems to fix that problem.
Now I'm just stuck with a poorly configured xf4 to deal with.
Well, at least I'm back to the original problem :-)
Thanks for the help,
Dwarf
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