Re: Lifting an XF86 setup from one machine to another

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Here's a great place to start...

Perhaps if you email the mantainer of this project below, they'd be able to 
help you.


http://movix.sourceforge.net/Docs/MoviX2/#section-2.



On November 28, 2003 08:46 pm, Victor B. Berdin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been trying to lift a working XF86 setup from one machine to
> another machine. The target/dump machine has no build capabilities.
> In fact runs on a very stripped down environment using busybox. The
> errors I get upon running startx and xdm are listed below. I know this
> can be done on a stripped down environment as was able to make this
> work way-way back using legacy XFree86 and Linux kernel releases
> with very little fuss. Right now, I seem to be missing some native Linux
> files required by the current XF86 release.
> And further, xdm does launch, has a working mouse pointer, and I am
> able to log with a user ID and Pass. xterm however, doesn't load, even
> if invoked via mouse click.
>
> Here are my logs:
>
> I just attached my XFree86.0.log as it is quite lengthy. If the list has
> problems with attachments, please inform me.
>
> #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> `startx` on the fly messages:
> #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> XFree86 Version 4.3.0
> Release Date: 27 February 2003
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
> Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.22 i686 [ELF]
> Build Date: 24 November 2003
>       Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
>       to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>          (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>          (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Fri Nov 28 13:24:18 2003
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
> (WW) VESA(0): Failed to set up write-combining range
> (0xfd000000,0x1000000)
> Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
> Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
> Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
> xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
> Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys
> login: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
> Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys
>
>
> waiting for X server to shut down X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit
> kill or server shutdown).
>
>
> #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> `xdm` log messages:
> #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> XFree86 Version 4.3.0
> Release Date: 27 February 2003
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
> Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.22 i686 [ELF]
> Build Date: 24 November 2003
>       Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
>       to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>          (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>          (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Fri Nov 28 13:24:38 2003
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
> (WW) VESA(0): Failed to set up write-combining range
> (0xfd000000,0x1000000)
> sh: /usr/bin/cpp: not found
> (WW) VESA(0): Failed to set up write-combining range
> (0xfd000000,0x1000000)
> sh: /usr/bin/cpp: not found
>
>
> #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ...And btw, what do I tweak to make xdm use a -nocpp flag?
>
>
>
>
>
> TIA & Best Regards - Vic

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