User Feedback :: Problem with openoffice.dsl: X server fails
I'm trying to use loadlin to boot dsl 0.6.2. It boots up, but won't
run "X".
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I get:
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection Reset by Peer) on X server
";0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
I am using this command line for loadlin in my batch file:
loadlin vmlinuz initrd=miniroot.gz
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I can run xsetup.sh, that makes a new .xserverrc file, and then
"startx", all to no avail.
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When I use a boot floppy, all is well.
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Anyone have any ideas?
I am in a MS free environment here, so I have no experience with loadlin. But there has been a lot of others talking about how to make it work with DSL. Try doing a search for it set to all forums and 'the beginning'.
Thanks John!
I'll continue to look around. This box has Debian 2.2 and Mandrake 8, and Arachne 1.70 on it,in addition to DSL and Windows 98. I can boot Debian and Mandrake off the Windows desktop with loadlin, and have partial success with DSL, in that
I can boot to runlevel 2, anyway, after runlevel 5 fails. I use special autoexec.bat and config.sys in System Commander to get the upper memory and mouse driver for Arachne. I have a msdos menu for some of it, that boots prior to Windows.
Some have had success with loadlin, but one example I found in the forums used
his own partition for DSL. I have done that with Arachne/ Windows 3.1 using
System Commander before.
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DSL is such a nice OS, able to outrun my older Debian and SuSE, which seem to
take a lot of fiddling to get going each time, what with Firestarter Firewall, user
accounts, and getting connected to the internet. I install DSL in one form or the other on all machines, some have only DSL, with no other OS of any kind.
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I am always amazed at the great number of knowlegeable folks on the DSL forums, all of them get an "A" in my book!
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Thanks again! It's all great fun.
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Are you trying to use the xfbdev XServer?
If so, you need to start up Linux with a framebuffer enabled.
You would do this by adding an append line like vga=791 or vga=789 to the loadlin boot command.
Check the loadlin documentation for more details.
HTH
Do I need to get loadlin to run openoffice???
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