Re: Problems with new X 4.2
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 02:39:17 +0000, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:08:49AM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
>> Compiled v4.2 of X today.
>
>I'm wondering why you don't just use the Debian source package ...
Because I have only just got a Linux-compatible modem, and haven't set
up my Linux box for Internet yet, so it doesn't come naturally to do
apt-get --install whatever. What does come naturally is to go to a
whatever site and download some huge .tgz file (or three). If I'd
thought, I'd have downloaded the .deb instead. But I didn't think.
>> (2) It assumes that a Debian system has Pam (whoever she is). Mine
>> doesn't, never has had.
>
>Sure it does, unless you've been hacking things in a major way. login
>pre-depends on it, for one. Maybe you need the development parts of PAM
>from libpam0g-dev.
Quite possibly. Thanks. The compilation broke when it couldn't find
security/pam_appl.h. There was no pam_appl.h anywhere on the system
and I knew I hadn't deleted it, so I figured it'd never been
installed. "Partly installed" didn't occur to me. What have I lost by
telling X I haven't got it?
>> That's OK. What's not OK is problem still problematical:
>> When I startx, I get:
>>
>> xinit: error in loading shared libraries
>> libXmuu.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>> directory
>
>Is /usr/X11R6/lib listed in /etc/ld.so.conf, and have you run ldconfig?
ldconfig, ya bugger! And there was me thinking that "make install"
would do that for me... should have checked. Wheee! Thanks!
It works now. Well, sort of. Still a few problems:
(1) (minor) modprobe moans that it can't find kernel module sis (my
video card is a SiS 6326 PCI) and I get an unknown exception (yeah,
right) from the X SiS driver (which still seems to work though) -
presumably related. But there's no such module, no sis.c anywhere in
the kernel 2.4.18 source, and no video card options in the kernel
configuration which suggest any possibility of one existing. (I don't
have a SiS motherboard chipset, so no confusion from that.) There's
nothing in the X source either (there's sis_drv.* X driver module, but
no sis.* kernel module stuff). Anyone have any idea what/where this
module is?
(2) (major) The mouse doesn't work! (PS/2 interface trackball on
/dev/psaux (crwxrwxrwx)). As soon as you touch it, the pointer jumps
to the top right hand corner of the screen and stays there no matter
what you do. It does this both with window manager twm that came with
X 4.2 and fvwm2 / fvwm95 2.0.x off my Debian single CD. Mouse support
is built into the kernel. "man gpm" suggests that gpm -R will put
mouse data in Mouse Systems format on /dev/gpmdata. When I configure X
to look for a Mouse Systems mouse on /dev/gpmdata and run gpm -R
before I startx, nothing works at all: Mouse pointer doesn't move and
gpm doesn't show up on ps ax, though something's happening, because
gpm -k doesn't complain but if I gpm -k again I get a segfault. I
really have not a clue where to start looking for help on this. Nor do
I know how to get by by loading the accessx accessory that xf86cfg
loads - can't find the accessx executable anywhere - and see below:
(3) Accompanying fvwm* is a package called fvwmconf to configure it,
which I installed from the Debian CD along with the window managers.
(Of course.) Having installed it, I typed fvwmconf (what else?) -
"command not found". So I did find / -name fvwmconf, and all it found
were directories. No fvwmconf executable anywhere. How do I run this
thing?
TIA
Pigeon
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