Blank screen on starting X
Hello all, we are undergrad students trying to install and compile the latest X release on a virtual box. We did all installation on /opt/MPX prefix. on doing sudo /opt/MPX/bin/X -config /../xorg.conf , the X server starts running and screen goes blank. We also changed the startx script to accomodate the new path for X. Can anyone help on this? thanks -- Regards, Sneha Runwal Pratik Munot Amey Moghe Mrunal Nargunde ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: Blank screen on starting X
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 04:24:15PM +0200, ext Flittigs at PICT wrote: Hello all, we are undergrad students trying to install and compile the latest X release on a virtual box. We did all installation on /opt/MPX prefix. on doing sudo /opt/MPX/bin/X -config /../xorg.conf , the X server starts running and screen goes blank. We also changed the startx script to accomodate the new path for X. Can anyone help on this? thanks -- just in case: adding -retro on the arguments does the job? :) Tiago ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: Blank screen on starting X
Flittigs at PICT wrote: Hello all, we are undergrad students trying to install and compile the latest X release on a virtual box. We did all installation on /opt/MPX prefix. on doing sudo /opt/MPX/bin/X -config /../xorg.conf , the X server starts running and screen goes blank. We also changed the startx script to accomodate the new path for X. Can anyone help on this? thanks This is perfectly normal. Congratulations, you have a running X. You just don't have a running desktop engine. startx starts X, not the other way round. Try: sudo startx -- /opt/MPX/bin/X -config /../xorg.conf HTH, Simon ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: Blank screen on starting X
Hello, you're correct. I got a running X. On doing sudo startx -- /opt/MPX/bin/X -config /../xorg.conf -retro and putting this in background by appending and then doing ps I can see a process for x server running Now, to have a gdm and other stuff running, on starting X, should I write a script, as in some more piece of code along with the startx command? coz just a blank screen doesn't help in any way and I have to keep rebooting my virtualbox On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Simon Thum simon.t...@gmx.de wrote: Flittigs at PICT wrote: Hello all, we are undergrad students trying to install and compile the latest X release on a virtual box. We did all installation on /opt/MPX prefix. on doing sudo /opt/MPX/bin/X -config /../xorg.conf , the X server starts running and screen goes blank. We also changed the startx script to accomodate the new path for X. Can anyone help on this? thanks This is perfectly normal. Congratulations, you have a running X. You just don't have a running desktop engine. startx starts X, not the other way round. Try: sudo startx -- /opt/MPX/bin/X -config /../xorg.conf HTH, Simon -- Regards, Sneha Runwal Pratik Munot Amey Moghe Mrunal Nargunde ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: Blank screen on starting X
Flittigs at PICT wrote: Now, to have a gdm and other stuff running, on starting X, should I write a script, as in some more piece of code along with the startx command? No, you should just start gdm, and let it start X for you. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Re: Blank screen on starting X
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote: Flittigs at PICT wrote: Now, to have a gdm and other stuff running, on starting X, should I write a script, as in some more piece of code along with the startx command? No, you should just start gdm, and let it start X for you. Just make sure you setup gdm to use your Xorg in /opt/MPX (it will default to /usr/bin/X or similar). I don't recall the exact way to do this on newer gdm, but documentation is here: http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/ -- Dan ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
