finding correct x config

[blobaugh]

Ok here's the deal, if any of you have read my other posts about this laptop I have you will know that under RedHat 7.2(neither 8 nor 9 even wanted to load) I couldn't get X to load. Also you will know that Damn Small Linux which is based off of Knoppix finds and and lets me configure video perfectly using xvesa. Now I have DSL on the laptop now, but I would really prefer RedHat. Is there a way to find out how X is configured in DSL and use the same information on RedHat? I know DSL is Debian based, but can they share the module or whatever it is that is making DSL use X perfectly? I have no clue what kind of video card is in this laptop. It's a CTX Ezbook 700G. I did a search for it on google but couldn't find much of anything but parts.

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

You could just copy your /etc/X11/XF86Config file to a floppy, and then once you installed Red Hat, just copy that file to /etc/X11, and then restart X.

If all of the same modules and libs are installed, there shouldn't be any reason why it wouldn't work...

[blobaugh]

Sorry if I sound like a noob. I usually don't have to mess with X configs or anything. So here is the XF86Config file from DSL. Will this stuff work straight over to RedHat? I just want to make sure first cause I'll have to reformat the laptop again.

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

The syntax for both systems are the same as far as the XF86Config files are concerned. It should go over without any problem.

[blobaugh]

Alright, I finally had some time to work on this darn laptop again. So When I installed RedHat I skipped the X config stuff. Then I copied the XF86Config file over from DSL. I typed startx and this is what it gave me:

execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2):
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to the X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

Is that because I did not configure X when I installed RH? When I type whereis xinit it gives me:
xinit: /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit /usr/bin/X11/xinit

[blobaugh]

Ok, I took a look at the config file to see if it was trying to located xinit as being elsewhere, and it was not. But I did find out that DSL is hiding it's real config file somewhere and the one I copied is not the correct one. So if anyone knows where to find it, or how I can fix my problem......

[gehidore]

dear ben

in dsl launch xfree then kill it with a classic ctrl alt bkspc

look near the top and it will show the location of the xf86config file it used to launch xfree

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by blobaugh
I have no clue what kind of video card is in this laptop. It's a CTX Ezbook 700G.

Another CTX model listed at Linux-on-Laptops uses a Neomagic video card. Check to see what you have with the following command.

/sbin/lspci

[gehidore]

Dear ben,

i shall come over to your house and fix it for you

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ps thanks for the ram
and again thanks for giving the laptop hd converter back

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