Re: Xorg issue with 5.0_BETA and nVidia GeForce 2 card

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>]

Robert Elz wrote:
>   | >I've just tried out X.org on 5.0_BETA/i386 for the first time, I  
> used
>   | >"X -configure" to create a test configuration file, and then ran the 
> X
>   | >server with that file.  The server starts, but then gets stuck at 
> some
>   | >initialization point while the screen is still in that state where it
>   | >has the grey background and the mouse cursor that's an "X".  It never
>   | >gets past that point.  Killing the server leaves the console stuck in
>   | >that state.  (I don't know if this is useful, but the mouse does
>   | >respond while the X server is running.)
>   |
>   | The very simple answer to my problem is that for whatever reason,
>   | X -config <config file> doesn't work,
>
> Actually, what you described is "does work", if you just start a
> server and no clients, it is supposed to behave just like you
> described.  The X server is responsible for restoring video state,
> so if you kill it, and deny it the opportunity to do that, your display
> will be wedged.   That all sounds like normal operation to me
> (to exit rhe server in that state use Ctl-Alt-Bsp ... if that doesn't
> work, and isn't disabled in the xorg.conf which it shouldn't be just after
> being built via X -configure, that would be a bug.)

Aha, thanks.  This is just multiple user errors then.  When I ran
"X -configure", it said "To test the server, run 'X -config
/root/xorg.conf.new'", and I interpreted that incorrectly.  (I have a
dim memory of once starting something in X without specifying a window
manager, and ending up with twm by default, so I'd just assumed that's
what would happen here.  I must've used startx.  On top of that, I did
try and pull up man pages, but nothing came back.  But I didn't clue in
the man pages were installed but simply not in my default search path.)
Sorry about the noise, and thanks for the clarification.

>   | But simply running startx with an .xinitrc referencing a
>   | window manager of choice works fine.
>
> Yes, then you're starting clients as well as the server.
> That (or xdm or equiv) are how you're supposed to start X
> normally.

That being the case, everything's working fine, and I'm enjoying using
5.0_BETA.

Thanks,

Dave