Graphical Login For Pdaxrom

[MONVMENTVM]

ok i found /usr/var/log/gdm and it says:
"Could not init font path element /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, removing from list!"

I'm looking where I can find these...

[MONVMENTVM]

it's still not working... the same happens as before.

[karlto]

I thought it was like that, but read something about runlevel 7 while googling, so I just hoped there would be a way...
Anyone knows how "kdm" jumps back to console login ? Maybe I should look into this.

Chero.
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I think kdm works the same; only respawns in runlevel 5 (for example). It has a button to do this.

You're right - some sites say that 7-9 are also valid runlevels, but I think it would be much nicer to use 3 or 4. On my RC12 tosa:

3: sd,pcmcia,ssh,,usb,messagebus,cups
4: same as 3 - cups(whoops?)
5: same as 3 + atd

I'm sure it would be reasonable to use 3 as default (currently 5), and change 5 to include gdm. gdm's configuration should tell it only to respawn if in runlevel 5, so telinit 3 will go to console. I can switch between 3, 4 and 5 with no hassle at all...

If you wanted to retain as much default pdaXrom as possible, I believe you could have gdm in runlevel 4 and not 5; you'd have to configure gdm to suit.

[Chero]

I can use the login screen to login to console, but not yet to get a "console login"
Let's keep on fiddling.

I have added some themes, and this is my login screen right now :

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Have fun,
Chero.

[adf]

gorgeous.  what is the new 2.6 beta4 going to do to your progress?

[Chero]

gorgeous.  what is the new 2.6 beta4 going to do to your progress?
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As far as I know it runs on beta4 as well, with the same issues as on beta3.
My guess is it will only have to be recompiled with the latest version, the setup afterwards will be quite similar.

The reason I'm testing on beta3 is 'cause I consider it to be very stable. I want to be sure that the problems I find are related to gdm and not to the beta-version of pdaX.

Chero.

[MONVMENTVM]

for me (with beta4) its still not working but as I could see in some logs it needs these fonts as mentioned in the log... but where to get them?

"Could not init font path element /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, removing from list!"

[Chero]

for me (with beta4) its still not working but as I could see in some logs it needs these fonts as mentioned in the log... but where to get them?

"Could not init font path element /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, removing from list!"
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It doesn't really need the fonts, the X-session tries to load them, but then continues without them.
I have these messages in my log file as well, but still gdm works as it should.

[MONVMENTVM]

ok... good to know

for me it doesnt work. gdmsetup works now (after I installed all the dependencies) but gdm itself doesnt.

I also installed KDE on beta4 which works. As KDE delivers also kdm, i tried it. The screen gets grey (as if you start X or when I try to start gdm) than appears a window in the middle of the screen with no text, which disappears just for less than a second. Then the screen gets grey again and after 2 or 3 seconds the window appears again and the background turns blue. Afterwards the screen gets grey again and so on until I reboot the Zaurus.

I bet there is something more missing...

[jerrybme]

ok... good to know

for me it doesnt work. gdmsetup works now (after I installed all the dependencies) but gdm itself doesnt.

I also installed KDE on beta4 which works. As KDE delivers also kdm, i tried it. The screen gets grey (as if you start X or when I try to start gdm) than appears a window in the middle of the screen with no text, which disappears just for less than a second. Then the screen gets grey again and after 2 or 3 seconds the window appears again and the background turns blue. Afterwards the screen gets grey again and so on until I reboot the Zaurus.

I bet there is something more missing...
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I had similar issue, and even though gdm setup would work, gdm wouldn't load, it turned out I missed one of the dependencies Chero listed on his post where the ipk is, double check to make sure you got those all installed too.

Good luck,
Jerry

BTW, I can only get gdm to load xfce4 on Beta 4, for some reason that's beyond me matchbox hangs and never loads.

[Chero]

ok... good to know

for me it doesnt work. gdmsetup works now (after I installed all the dependencies) but gdm itself doesnt.

I also installed KDE on beta4 which works. As KDE delivers also kdm, i tried it. The screen gets grey (as if you start X or when I try to start gdm) than appears a window in the middle of the screen with no text, which disappears just for less than a second. Then the screen gets grey again and after 2 or 3 seconds the window appears again and the background turns blue. Afterwards the screen gets grey again and so on until I reboot the Zaurus.

I bet there is something more missing...
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As far as I know, KDE can't be installed to "/", so it will be very difficult to launch kdm at boot time.

[jerrybme]

Ok, I got it working in Matchbox, but having significant problems getting the rotation correct between gdm and matchbox. Having to create a modified fbpanel-session to get the orientation correct  

But here's my screenshot of gdm.. (thanks to Chero for his guidance on screenshot within gdm!)

Cheers,
Jerry

[MONVMENTVM]

Nice screen!

And I still cannot get it. I checked if every package is installed which was mentioned in this thread and in this pm where we got the ipk from chero... but everything is installed.

Dont know what to do further...

[jerrybme]

Nice screen!

And I still cannot get it. I checked if every package is installed which was mentioned in this thread and in this pm where we got the ipk from chero... but everything is installed.

Dont know what to do further...
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Well, I can't get matchbox to rotate properly, even when I get it to have the proper orientation then fbpanel crashes and isn't visible.

Here's a screenshot of what it looks like with default fbpanel-session file. The other screen shot is what happens when started from gdm. Notice the fonts on the icons in the rotated screen are significantly larger than when not started from gdm wierd...
 

[diesel1]

Nice screen!

And I still cannot get it. I checked if every package is installed which was mentioned in this thread and in this pm where we got the ipk from chero... but everything is installed.

Dont know what to do further...
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Well, I can't get matchbox to rotate properly, even when I get it to have the proper orientation then fbpanel crashes and isn't visible.

Here's a screenshot of what it looks like with default fbpanel-session file. The other screen shot is what happens when started from gdm. Notice the fonts on the icons in the rotated screen are significantly larger than when not started from gdm wierd...
 
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Does the screen scroll like a virtual screen in X?
It makes me think one of the displays is a virtual window of the other.

Simon.