Addendum. I installed GoboLinux 16 to the hard disk. Tried to fire up X. That fails. Run Xorg -configure and startx -- -config xorg.conf.new; that fails. Reboot the Live DVD. Re-generate the xorg.conf.new that I had generated last time. I can get X session from the Live DVD. Save THAT xorg.conf.new to the GoboLinux partition on the hard disk.
I reboot to GoboLinux on the hard disk. X doesn't work. The two different xorg.conf files only differ in things that are commented out, and yet, the Live DVD can run X, and the hard disk installation cannot. This is beginning to surpass the amount of time that can be wasted on a problem that I thought we solved 20 years ago -- how to get X running. Any suggestions on how to get X to run on the hard disk install? Thanks, Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:33 AM, William Dudley <[email protected]> wrote: > Lucas, > > Thanks for the reply. > > I should have noted in my original email that my video card on this > machine is > an Nvidia GeForce 6800. I eventually found this page: > https://github.com/gobolinux/Documentation/wiki/Afterboot#Known_Issues > where it says Nvidia cards are "problematic" (my word). > > I cannot try running the two commands you suggest (at least with the > Nvidia card > installed), as the screen is unreadable from the very start. I see the > boot messages > scroll up the screen, and then when the extra-special GoboLinux font kicks > in, > I get "nothing" as described in my last email. > > I now know what the screen is *supposed* to look like, as I stuck an old > PCI bus > video card (Matrox Millenium II) in the machine (no on-motherboard video) > and got as far as the > text prompt where one is prompted to either run startx or Installer. > startx fails > as the Xorg on the DVD does not like my ancient Matrox video card. > > I tried the commands you suggest with the Matrox video card. That also > failed to get > an X session up. I then edited the xorg.conf.new file so that it had > video driver set > to "vesa" and now, finally, I have X and "awesome" up and running. > > So far I can't say I'm real impressed with "awesome", at least not with > the Goth "purple > on black" theme, and no apparent way (at least from the GUI) to change the > theme, > wallpaper, window focus rules, etc. I tried "Config" and that put me in a > nano session > editing a text file, but without significant documentation, I'll not be > changing anything > in there. I did look, and there appears to be only the one theme > installed on the machine. > > Is it possible to run Mate window manager in GoboLinux? > > Finally, somebody should update gobolinux.org to fix the search link. > The page that > needs fixing is this one: https://gobolinux.org/community.html > > Again, thanks for your help. > > Bill Dudley > retired software developer > > This email is free of malware because I run Linux. > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Lucas C. Villa Real < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:50 AM, William Dudley <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I've tried two different monitors, and both of them don't work with >>> GoboLinux 016 DVD. >>> >>> The Dell just tells me that the video is out of range, and try to use >>> it's native 1600x1200. >>> >>> The (newer) Viewsonic just shows flashing vertical colored strips. Good >>> thing I'm not >>> an epileptic. >>> >>> Is it possible to boot the DVD up in "safe" mode at some "normal" video >>> resolution? >>> >> >> Hi Bill, >> >> Could you try running the two commands below? >> >> $ Xorg -configure >> $ startx -- -config xorg.conf.new >> >> You may also make changes to the generated xorg.conf.new, as documented >> here: >> https://github.com/gobolinux/Documentation/wiki/Running-under-VirtualBox >> >> >>> I'd have tried searching the archives, but the search link on the >>> gobolinux web site, to >>> search.gmane.org, doesn't work, Firefox says search.gmane.org doesn't >>> exist. >>> >>> ping search.gmane.org >>> ping: unknown host search.gmane.org >>> >>> >> gmane.org has been shut down recently: >> https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/ >> >> As an alternative, you may use the following resource to search the >> mailing list archives: >> http://marc.info/?l=gobolinux-users&r=1&w=3 >> >> Lucas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gobolinux-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users >> >> >
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