Re: [Fwd: Some qemu+hurd questions]
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 23:48 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 23:27 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, le Wed 03 Nov 2010 22:27:52 +0100, a écrit :
> ..
> > > I tried to start X with the cirrus driver and got hit by Debian bug
> > > #590715 reported for 2:1.7.7-3 (with patch by Samuel) and another for
> > > fbdevhw, see below.
> >
> > Mmm, I guess you are overestimating the consequences of this bug: it
> > disables a couple of things, but you should get an Xorg server working.
> > If all you get is a black screen, you're most probably hit by the "we
> > don't like showing a mouse cursor" crazyness of Xorg people, that is you
> > have a working X server, but you didn't start any client (e.g. use
> > xinit /usr/bin/xterm to start one).
>
> I did get a black screen, then X was shut down with the messages copied
> manually in my previous mail.
>
> Good news however. Creating an .xinitrc file exec'ing wmaker I have an X
> desktop running. Yippee! It does not seem too much slower than without X.
Starting X as user fails, only as root works!
qemu -m 256 -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -hda hurd-install.qemu
...
Mach console
Hurd console
...
xinit /usr/bin/xterm
X: Unable to determine if running on a console.
X: User not autorized to run the X server, aborting.
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: No such file or directory
xinit: server error
I have random-egd installed so /dev/random and /dev/urandom exists.
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