Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?
On Saturday 27 June 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Jacob Toddjaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: You need to emerge xorg-server. I'm about half way through now. Isn't it correct to say that you just need to emerge x11-base/xorg-x11, which will pull in x11-base/xorg-server by default (unless you have some fancy USE flags setup). -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:00:55 +0100, Mick wrote: Isn't it correct to say that you just need to emerge x11-base/xorg-x11, which will pull in x11-base/xorg-server by default (unless you have some fancy USE flags setup). It will also pull in a shedload of dependencies, being a meta package,something that is not likely to appeal to the typical Fluxbox user. -- Neil Bothwick Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either. - signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?
On Sunday 28 June 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:00:55 +0100, Mick wrote: Isn't it correct to say that you just need to emerge x11-base/xorg-x11, which will pull in x11-base/xorg-server by default (unless you have some fancy USE flags setup). It will also pull in a shedload of dependencies, being a meta package,something that is not likely to appeal to the typical Fluxbox user. Hmm ... I must have been doing this wrong then? 8-/ What's the 'right' way of installing Xorg on a machine that runs FB as a WM? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:00:55 +0100, Mick wrote: Isn't it correct to say that you just need to emerge x11-base/xorg-x11, which will pull in x11-base/xorg-server by default (unless you have some fancy USE flags setup). It will also pull in a shedload of dependencies, being a meta package,something that is not likely to appeal to the typical Fluxbox user. -- Neil Bothwick Exactly. My use of fluxbox on this machine was to test that X is even working over S-Video. (It is.) My goal after that was to emerge MythTV again and try running that. That causes X to crash for MTRR problems so that would be today's goal. This didn't used to happen with my old kernel and the fglrx driver so probably I haven't configured the kernel correctly? With xorg-server fluxbox emerged I only needed about 20 packages to get Myth installed so I agree that xorg-x11 pulls in a bunch of stuff I probably don't need. I would have emerged xorg-x11 if I hadn't been reading through the xorg config guide once again and seen that this was an option. I'm not sure the other stuff is big, but it's a lot of packages. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:22:14 +0100, Mick wrote: What's the 'right' way of installing Xorg on a machine that runs FB as a WM? Install xorg-server, anything else that's needed will be installed as a dependency of xorg-server or your client software. The xorg-x11 meta package was,AFAIR, created for backwards compatibility for old ebuilds that still depended on the old monolithic package. -- Neil Bothwick Celery is not food. It is a member of the plywood family. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?
On Sunday 28 June 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:22:14 +0100, Mick wrote: What's the 'right' way of installing Xorg on a machine that runs FB as a WM? Install xorg-server, anything else that's needed will be installed as a dependency of xorg-server or your client software. The xorg-x11 meta package was,AFAIR, created for backwards compatibility for old ebuilds that still depended on the old monolithic package. Oh I see, thanks for this! I had it the other way around in my head. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?
You need to emerge xorg-server. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:33:54PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Just curious. The fluxbox ebuild doesn't emerge xorg-server which means I now have a machine with fluxbox emerged but I don't know how to start it as there is no xstart on the machine. What would be the lightest way to get X running right now? man startfluxbox suggests fluxbox can be started from .xsession if I use xdm and xdm doesn't seem to require very much be emerged so I'm doing that now. The purpose of this experiment is that if I get X going then I have a chance of seeing whether the the Open Source ati-driver TV feature out actually works for my 9100 IGP chipset. Thanks in advance, Mark -- Jake Todd // If it isn't broke, tweak it! pgpN22omiM6de.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Jacob Toddjaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: You need to emerge xorg-server. I'm about half way through now. Thanks, Mark
