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anticapitalista
The good news is that this has helped us find a serious bug in the cli-installer ie installing to a separate existing /home fails.
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seaken64
Well, fwiw, I think I would have tried the Base or Full install before giving up. You can always pare down after the X system is setup. antiX does all that for you with Base or Full.
Sean
oldman
The good news is that this has helped us find a serious bug in the cli-installer ie installing to a separate existing /home fails.
I remember reading last year, where someone was having a problem with a seperate /home directory and another person made the comment that you have found a bug, that was in Antix 16. So it looks like it was never fixed.
Edit:
I have just installed the core.iso and my /home directory was,relative found ok, that is without making any alterations to /etc/fstab. It shows /dev/sda3 /home ext4 defaults,relatime 0 2. But nano is showing, with a red background, [ Mistake in ‘/home/oldman/.nanorc’ ].
I chose to be logged in automatically, but did not come to the gui, also when I typed startx, I get -bash: startx: command not found.- This reply was modified 5 years ago by oldman.
Well, fwiw, I think I would have tried the Base or Full install before giving up. You can always pare down after the X system is setup. antiX does all that for you with Base or Full.
SeanHaving read the posts here this morning, I have decided to give Antix another go, so I have down-loaded core (I hope it comes with a gui that works for me).
I am reasonably comfortable with the cli now, but I do find Unix very frustrating at times! What I want is to run VMware Player, so I need a gui.
anticapitalista
Having read the posts here this morning, I have decided to give Antix another go, so I have down-loaded core (I hope it comes with a gui that works for me).
I am reasonably comfortable with the cli now, but I do find Unix very frustrating at times! What I want is to run VMware Player, so I need a gui.
core does not come with a gui.
If you try it and/or net again, do not choose a separate /home partition and all should work properly.
Or, if you do want a separate /home, when prompted ‘is it a new /home’, answer yes(not default), which means that what is on /home will get deleted.Good luck!
- This reply was modified 5 years ago by anticapitalista. Reason: typos
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
core does not come with a gui.
If you try it and/or net again, do not choose a separate /home partition and all should work properly.
Or, if you do want a separate /home, when prompted ‘is it a new /home’, answer yes(not default), which means that what is on /home will get deleted.
Good luck!I have now tried both ways with the home directory and it is just the same.
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused.anticapitalista
When dumped console, as root
make-xorg-conf modesetting -o=/etc/X11/xorg.confthen as user
startxThese seem to be sid changes.
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
BobC
Hi oldman, I don’t mean to interrupt the fun, but I did a build from core with 17.1 and icewm, and was hitting some of the same problems I see above. It might work if you took out the icewm and added some other window manager or desktop manager instead to replace it. Not sure, but maybe that would help. Neither of these had a separate /home partition, but unless you really need it, maybe you’d be better off doing things simpler to avoid getting into tricky stuff.
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/build-icewm-system-from-core-17-1Also, there is a youtube video (a little old but I tried it with 17 core) on how to load core and add xfce if that might help. I posted a screenshot of it over in the thread where they found the /home problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCVPZkUXXU8Anti is the expert here, but I still have the system in the other thread running if there is any info from it that will help you 🙂
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/trouble-with-net-or-core-install/#post-9645- This reply was modified 5 years ago by BobC.
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When dumped console, as root
I do not understand what you mean by the above.
Thanks for your suggestions BobC, but my latest try was with “sudo apt-get install xorg xserver-xorg-legacy fluxbox“
anticapitalista
When dumped console, as root
I do not understand what you mean by the above.
I mean at the console.
Since you can’t boot into X, login as root or sudo and type that command.
It will create an xorg.conf file.
I’m guessing modestting is needed.
Are you using Intel?BTW – you still haven’t told us about your hardware specs.
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
After following your latest instructions, there is no difference.
This is the xorg.conf file generated by your instructions:
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # xorg.conf file # # Generated by make-xorg-conf sometime around Tue 24 Apr 12:09:12 BST 2018 # # If you want to save customizations, delete the line above or this # file will get automatically deleted on the next live boot. # # Command line parameters: modesetting -o=/etc/X11/xorg.conf #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Option "DPMS" "true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "modesetting" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Monitor "Monitor0" Device "Device0" EndSectionThe computer is a Dell Inspirin
It has a sata hard drive (not the original)
4Gb of ram
And this is some info of the chipsets:=== CPU === Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz Core 0: @1998 1: @1998 MHz === Memory === 3280 MiB total RAM === video-info === Chip description: 2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) oem: Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS product: Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0 X Server: Xorg Driver used: intel === probepart === /dev/sda1|ext4|155668480 /dev/sda2|swap|39225344 /dev/sda3|ext4|29419520 /dev/sda4|ext4|88264704 /dev/sdb|none|0 /dev/sdc|none|0 /dev/sdd|none|0 /dev/sde|none|0 /dev/sr0|iso9660|538780 === PCI bus (lspci -nn) === 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller [8086:29c0] (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:29c1] (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:29c2] (rev 02) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection [8086:10c0] (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 02) 00:1a.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 92) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2916] (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 4 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] [8086:2920] (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 02) 00:1f.5 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) 2 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] [8086:2926] (rev 02) === USB devices (lsusb) === Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0644:0200 TEAC Corp. All-In-One Multi-Card Reader CA200/B/S Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0b38:0003 Gear Head Keyboard Bus 006 Device 002: ID 04f3:0210 Elan Microelectronics Corp. Optical Mouse Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hubThis is the Xwrapper.conf:
# Xwrapper.config (Debian X Window System server wrapper configuration file) # # This file was generated by the post-installation script of the # xserver-xorg-legacy package using values from the debconf database. # # See the Xwrapper.config(5) manual page for more information. # # This file is automatically updated on upgrades of the xserver-xorg-legacy # package *only* if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of that # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following command as root: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg-legacy allowed_users=console needs_root_rights=yes- This reply was modified 5 years ago by oldman.
I now can start X and have a basic desktop.
I have been trying different things that I have read on the Internet, so I do not know if any other thing has contributed to me getting a working desktop.
What I think will have made it work, are:
1. I installed the Intel drivers.
2. I have changed one line and added two more to /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.In the Section “Device” I altered Driver to “intel” and added VendorName “Intel” and BoardName “Intel internal video board”.
So now I have just a basic FluxBox desktop, no wallpaper, no coloured background.
- This reply was modified 5 years ago by oldman.
For the benefit of anyone else like me, that did not know how to install X windows, these are my notes:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dell Inspiron with intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics controller (rev 02) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is what works: Installation: * Antix core * sudo apt update * sudo apt upgrade * sudo apt install xorg xserver-xorg fluxbox * sudo apt install xserver-xorg-legacy * sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-intel Configuration: * sudo make-xorg-conf -o=/etc/X11/xorg.conf (This makes xorg-conf) * sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf Alter xorg-conf to: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Option "DPMS" "true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "intel" VendorName "Intel" BoardName "Intel internal video board" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Monitor "Monitor0" Device "Device0" EndSection Create or edit etc/X11/Xwrapper.config with: * sudo nano /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config Alter Xwrapper.config to: allowed_users=console needs_root_rights=yes~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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