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Title: Installing Xserver On Console Image
Post by: dolcex on July 09, 2007, 12:26:14 pm
After installing the Angstrom console image, how does one go about installing packages to enable xserver?  I got to a point where X would try to start and then it says no screen found.  I've searched everywhere and found no answer.

Thank you.

p.s. I know it's easier to install the X image, but I have a reason for wanting to install the base.
Title: Installing Xserver On Console Image
Post by: koen on July 09, 2007, 02:03:01 pm
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After installing the Angstrom console image, how does one go about installing packages to enable xserver?  I got to a point where X would try to start and then it says no screen found.  I've searched everywhere and found no answer.

Thank you.

p.s. I know it's easier to install the X image, but I have a reason for wanting to install the base.
[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=164581\")

This was been answered a few times on the mailinglist, please follow [a href=\"http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/contact]http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/contact[/url] in the future
Title: Installing Xserver On Console Image
Post by: dolcex on July 09, 2007, 02:37:09 pm
The only relevant message I found is
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angst...une/000300.html (http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angstrom-distro-users/2007-June/000300.html)
and it does not answer my question.  I don't want to reflash with the x11 fs - I want to manually install required packages to get x11 up and running.

p.s. as pointed out before, there is no search function for the archives (I suppose I could have googled the domain).


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After installing the Angstrom console image, how does one go about installing packages to enable xserver?  I got to a point where X would try to start and then it says no screen found.  I've searched everywhere and found no answer.

Thank you.

p.s. I know it's easier to install the X image, but I have a reason for wanting to install the base.
[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=164581\")

This was been answered a few times on the mailinglist, please follow [a href=\"http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/contact]http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/contact[/url] in the future
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Title: Installing Xserver On Console Image
Post by: koen on July 09, 2007, 02:44:35 pm
My points remain, it was discussed and answered a few times on the mailinglist, most recently *yesterday*, and if you had checked the news on the frontpage....
Title: Installing Xserver On Console Image
Post by: dolcex on July 09, 2007, 02:59:02 pm
Sorry to beat the dead horse, but I still don't see an answer.  I'm an intelligent person, yet I am struggling to find this...

Anyway, forget it.  I'll try and figure it out.

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My points remain, it was discussed and answered a few times on the mailinglist, most recently *yesterday*, and if you had checked the news on the frontpage....
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Title: Installing Xserver On Console Image
Post by: koen on July 09, 2007, 04:56:17 pm
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/contact (http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/contact) has 2 links in the bodytext, so you have 50% chance (practically even more, since the first link is the one you want).

The first news post on the frontpage links to the gmane version of the mailinglists which has...

*drumroll*

a search function

To summarize: you want to consult the mailinglists (archives) for any questions, not any forum, as the contact page makes clear.
Title: Installing Xserver On Console Image
Post by: nodens on July 09, 2007, 06:36:22 pm
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The first news post on the frontpage links to the gmane version of the mailinglists which has...

*drumroll*

a search function

To summarize: you want to consult the mailinglists (archives) for any questions, not any forum, as the contact page makes clear.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=164603\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

A lot of people seems to have trouble to get this right.

Maybe a link to the search function in the contact page would help ? Also, "support" could me more appropriate than "contact", even if it's not the main purpose of the mailing lists.
Title: Installing Xserver On Console Image
Post by: dolcex on July 09, 2007, 06:44:42 pm
For anyone that cares, the message that I have finally come to is here:
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angst...uly/000466.html (http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angstrom-distro-devel/2007-July/000466.html)

The meat is:

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# ipkg update

Install the X server (specific to the C760 - See
http://www.openembedded.org/repo/org.opene...chine/c7x0.conf (http://www.openembedded.org/repo/org.openembedded.dev/conf/machine/c7x0.conf)
)
# ipkg install xserver-kdrive-w100

From
http://www.openembedded.org/filebrowser/or...kages/angstromI (http://www.openembedded.org/filebrowser/org.openembedded.dev/packages/angstromI)
found out which are the packages needed for the X11 image
# ipkg install  task-base-extended angstrom-x11-base-depends
angstrom-gpe-task-base angstrom-gpe-task-settings

This will give you a fully working GPE environment.

I'm about to try it before the gf gets home... then it's Resident Evil 4 time


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http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/contact (http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/contact) has 2 links in the bodytext, so you have 50% chance (practically even more, since the first link is the one you want).

The first news post on the frontpage links to the gmane version of the mailinglists which has...

*drumroll*

a search function

To summarize: you want to consult the mailinglists (archives) for any questions, not any forum, as the contact page makes clear.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=164603\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
Title: Installing Xserver On Console Image
Post by: dolcex on July 09, 2007, 07:56:33 pm
Result:  Angstrom splash screen displays, then gpe-dm tries to start (or maybe it does), and them I'm dumped to the shell where it says "can't open display :0"

I installed xserver-kdrive
There are other kdrive packages...  maybe that wasn't the right one.


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For anyone that cares, the message that I have finally come to is here:
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angst...uly/000466.html (http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angstrom-distro-devel/2007-July/000466.html)

The meat is:

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# ipkg update

Install the X server (specific to the C760 - See
http://www.openembedded.org/repo/org.opene...chine/c7x0.conf (http://www.openembedded.org/repo/org.openembedded.dev/conf/machine/c7x0.conf)
)
# ipkg install xserver-kdrive-w100

From
http://www.openembedded.org/filebrowser/or...kages/angstromI (http://www.openembedded.org/filebrowser/org.openembedded.dev/packages/angstromI)
found out which are the packages needed for the X11 image
# ipkg install  task-base-extended angstrom-x11-base-depends
angstrom-gpe-task-base angstrom-gpe-task-settings

This will give you a fully working GPE environment.

I'm about to try it before the gf gets home... then it's Resident Evil 4 time


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http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/contact (http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/contact) has 2 links in the bodytext, so you have 50% chance (practically even more, since the first link is the one you want).

The first news post on the frontpage links to the gmane version of the mailinglists which has...

*drumroll*

a search function

To summarize: you want to consult the mailinglists (archives) for any questions, not any forum, as the contact page makes clear.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=164603\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=164609\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
Title: Installing Xserver On Console Image
Post by: dolcex on July 10, 2007, 12:42:03 pm
The solution for Akita is:

# ipkg update
# ipkg upgrade
# ipkg install xserver-kdrive-fbdev
# ipkg install  task-base-extended angstrom-x11-base-depends angstrom-gpe-task-base angstrom-gpe-task-settings esd
Title: Installing Xserver On Console Image
Post by: grog on July 10, 2007, 03:42:56 pm
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The solution for Akita is:

# ipkg update
# ipkg upgrade
# ipkg install xserver-kdrive-fbdev
# ipkg install  task-base-extended angstrom-x11-base-depends angstrom-gpe-task-base angstrom-gpe-task-settings esd[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=164663\")
Thanks for letting us know. I'll update the [a href=\"http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/AngstromManual]Angstrom wiki entry[/url]. I notice that you added esd from what was originally recommended. What was the reason? thks
Title: Installing Xserver On Console Image
Post by: dolcex on July 10, 2007, 04:05:34 pm
I don't know why esd was required - but gpe-dm wouldn't start without it.

Seems that Angstrom sites are down at the moment....

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The solution for Akita is:

# ipkg update
# ipkg upgrade
# ipkg install xserver-kdrive-fbdev
# ipkg install  task-base-extended angstrom-x11-base-depends angstrom-gpe-task-base angstrom-gpe-task-settings esd[div align=\"right\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div] (http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=164663\")
Thanks for letting us know. I'll update the [a href=\"http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/AngstromManual]Angstrom wiki entry[/url]. I notice that you added esd from what was originally recommended. What was the reason? thks
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Title: Installing Xserver On Console Image
Post by: grog on July 10, 2007, 04:15:34 pm
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I don't know why esd was required - but gpe-dm wouldn't start without it.
Interesting. I don't have that intalled & it works fine for me.

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Seems that Angstrom sites are down at the moment....[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=164676\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
I noticed that too