XF86 4.02 please help me :(:(

[paully1]

Well decided to upgrade from 3.3.6 to 4.02
the XF86Config -configure did nothing so I did xf86config which let me do startx but i just get a black and white background with a white bash shell in the upper left hand corner, no gnome! I run slack 7.1 so i did xwmconfig and all it said was like

xinitrc.

didnt give an option for gnome or kde or anything. It's there cause I ran it with 3.3.6 is there something I'm missing to get the list of window managers?

thanks
paully

[pbharris]

hello,
try removing or renaming .xinitrc or .Xclients depending upon which ditro you are using, looks like X is not picking up the window manager as you noted.
paul

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[paully1]

Originally posted by pbharris:
hello,
try removing or renaming .xinitrc or .Xclients depending upon which ditro you are using, looks like X is not picking up the window manager as you noted.
paul



I'm using slack 7.1, where exactly is that .xinitrc file? I'll try renaming just incase it doesnt work. If it doesnt work I'll have to find out some way of getting the list so i can use gnome. thanks again

paul

[carwyn]

These files live in your /home/<username> directory.

Are you logging in through kdm or gdm? I don't and I didn't have any problems like this when I upgraded a couple of days ago.

I still can't get over the improvement in speed! :-)

[paully1]

Originally posted by carwyn:
These files live in your /home/<username> directory.

Are you logging in through kdm or gdm? I don't and I didn't have any problems like this when I upgraded a couple of days ago.

I still can't get over the improvement in speed! :-)

I dont know which, as a matter of fact i dont really know what they are hehe.

paul

[paully1]

Originally posted by carwyn:
These files live in your /home/<username> directory.

Are you logging in through kdm or gdm? I don't and I didn't have any problems like this when I upgraded a couple of days ago.

I still can't get over the improvement in speed! :-)

if you mean a graphical login for kde or gnome then no. I just boot to linux login not graphical.

i didnt see a xinitrc or xclients file i did ls -a i had an Xauthority and all the gnome directory stuff is there.

All i did was download xf86 4.02 throught my user account logged back in as root and ran the install script from my user directory.

the XF86Config -configure didnt work so i did xf86config then i was able to startx, it only gave me a black and white screen with a bash shell but it was something

So i figured id run xwmconfig since thats what it says to do in my slack 7.1 book and the only option I got was xinitrc but that file isnt in my home directory anywhere.

i downloaded the right binaries, just wanted to post everything I did so maybe someone could spot errors in the method i used.

thanks
paul

p.s. i started learnin Vim, wow i love this thing i can even compile my code from it hell yeah!!!!!!!!!!! I was so psyched I picked up the O'reily 'Learning the vi editor' book, i love this editor.

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[paully1]

oh wow! got my gnome runnin!! figured it out sorta, found a post at slackware.com about doing:
echo "exec gnome-session" >> .xinintrc
did and the first time i tried startx i got no /dev/dsp found but i logged out and back in and got my gnome http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

But, I did notice something the only resolution i can run where my whole desktop fits on the screen is like 1280xwhatever. Any other smaller resolution makes my desktop bigger than my physical screen, how can I make it fit no matter what resolution I use?

thanks
paul

[carwyn]

Glad to hear you got it sorted!

I had that problem too. The only way round it that worked for me was to delete any resolutions from XF86Config larger than the one I actually wanted to use as my 'main' resolution.

All I've got to do now is sort out the fonts, they look really crap in Staroffice.

Also I started using (g)vim recently and it's a hell of a lot better than other editors. I particularly like the sheer number of languages etc.. supported by the text highlighting. Cam in useful when I had to code a bit of SMIL for uni.

Is that O'Reilly book any good then?

[paully1]

Originally posted by carwyn:
Glad to hear you got it sorted!

I had that problem too. The only way round it that worked for me was to delete any resolutions from XF86Config larger than the one I actually wanted to use as my 'main' resolution.

All I've got to do now is sort out the fonts, they look really crap in Staroffice.

Also I started using (g)vim recently and it's a hell of a lot better than other editors. I particularly like the sheer number of languages etc.. supported by the text highlighting. Cam in useful when I had to code a bit of SMIL for uni.

Is that O'Reilly book any good then?

I decided to reboot too make sure I still got gnome to start and it did. Although I compiled emu10k1 for my sblive AGAIN and it worked right after compilation. But as usual when I reboot and go back into X i get the

oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): no such device

I've changed permissions changed the group to user for my user account, tried audio but it said invalid group.

anyways, i just got that vi book so i havent had much of a chance to get very far into yet. But it seems very complete and if it's like most of the other O'reily book it will deliver what it promises. it has sections for various clones like vim.elvis,vile, etc. Looks really good to me. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

paul



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[carwyn]

Cheers! I'll give it a look then!

[paully1]

Originally posted by carwyn:
Cheers! I'll give it a look then!

Oh wow, i install xf86 4.02 and now gvim doesnt work. It opens just doesnt show anything in the buffer. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif help.

I'll keep using vim instead, gotta figure out how to get the color syntax in the term when i run vim, thats the only reason i tried gvim. The nice looking colors for the variables and constructs etc.

[carwyn]

That's really wierd 'cos I've had no problems like that at all.

On my system at least, vim uses colour in XTerm and also from the prompt outside of X Windows. It seems a bit faster here too.

Does anything show up if you open a file? Have you had a look in ~/.Xdefaults. Maybe somethings been changed there. I've got gvim entries that don't seem to have any effect it's appearance at all.

Also as a last resort have a look in .gvimrc and make sure that you have the line

set background=light

I needed this when my highlights changed to a set of really light colours that were hard to read on a white background.

There could be other options that might improve things.

Hope that helps!

[paully1]

Originally posted by carwyn:
That's really wierd 'cos I've had no problems like that at all.

On my system at least, vim uses colour in XTerm and also from the prompt outside of X Windows. It seems a bit faster here too.

Does anything show up if you open a file? Have you had a look in ~/.Xdefaults. Maybe somethings been changed there. I've got gvim entries that don't seem to have any effect it's appearance at all.

Also as a last resort have a look in .gvimrc and make sure that you have the line

set background=light

I needed this when my highlights changed to a set of really light colours that were hard to read on a white background.

There could be other options that might improve things.

Hope that helps!

Thanks for the info, I'm getting now response from gvim at all in command mode. I'll just keep using it in xterm/eterm and get color options set up thats all. I'm pretty new to vim so I started using gvim before I knew I could set color options in xterm/eterm. I even downloaded the win32 release of vim and integrated into VC++ as the editor http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

paul