Re: Requesting help on Crux

16 Aug 2012

      Hello Murali,

I used dual monitor setup but with xmonad and no display manager/login
manager. I just run startx from the /etc/inittab.

Check the arch tutorials on dual monitor setup.

Let me know if you want my setup.

this is my xorg.conf

cat X11/xorg.conf
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

# used this http://www.ird.nc/UR65/Ganachaud/Configfiles/enabling-xinerama-in-ubuntu.htm...
#  to setup the video card
# got this from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1773624

Section "InputClass"
   identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
   Driver "evdev"
   MatchProduct "Razer|BlackWidow"
   Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
   Option "XkbLayout" "us"
   Option "XkbVariant" "dvorak"
   Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
Endsection

Section "ServerFlags"
   Option "DefaultServerLayout" "default"
   Option "AutoAddDevices" "true"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
   identifier "default"
   Screen 0 "PrimaryScreen"
Endsection

Section "Device"
   Identifier "Radeon HD5450 PCIE video card"

   Driver "radeon"
   # below option for the evergreen bug in dmesg
   #  which is fixed in 3.5.rc5 kernel release
   # Option "ColorTiling2D"  "off"

   Option "Monitor-HDMI-0" "unconnected"
   Option "Monitor-DVI-0"  "Acer AL2223W"
   Option "Monitor-VGA-0"  "Acer AL1912"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "Acer AL2223W"
   # Option "PreferredMode"  "1680x1050"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "Acer AL1912"
   # Option "PreferredMode"  "1280x1024"
   Option "LeftOf"  "Acer AL2223W"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "unconnected"
   Option "Ignore"  "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "PrimaryScreen"
   Device      "Radeon HD5450 PCIE video card"
   Monitor "Acer AL2223W"
   DefaultDepth 24
   SubSection "Display"
      Depth 24
      Modes "1680x1050"
      # See the paragraph on gentoo-wiki for calculating
      # the virtual screen resolution.
      # In this example, X == 1280+1280 and Y == 1024
      #Virtual 2960 2074
   EndSubSection
EndSection

extract from /etc/inittab
c1:2:respawn:/sbin/agetty --autologin joe --host mymachine --8bits
--keep-baud 38400 tty1 linux

end of my zprofile:
# cleanup any old serverauth files lying around
# [ "`tty`" = "/dev/tty1" ] && /usr/bin/startx -- -nolisten tcp
...
...
/var/log/startx.log 2>&1
if [[ "$(tty)" == "/dev/tty1" && "$(hostname)" == "master" ]] ; then
   find /home/j -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname ".serverauth.*" -exec rm {} \;
   /usr/bin/startx -- -nolisten tcp >>/var/log/startx.log 2>&1
fi
Thanks
Joe

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Murali Bharadwaj <murali_sb@outlook.com> wrote:
...
Hi,
I tried installing recently released 2.8 rc but ran into issues with kernel
panics and not able to boot into the system. Eventually i decided to use
2.7.1 and everything works perfectly fine so far w.r.t installation, login
etc. However i've few questions that i'm looking for some help on and it
would be great if anyone can guide me in resolving those -
1. I got openbox installed but wanted to install xfce actually. I added xfce
in the same way as xorg, core in prt-get.conf but it didn't update the xfce
collection. As per http://crux.nu/portdb/ I could see xfce repo there but
not sure why it didn't work. I even tried command line consulting the man
page/online docs but those didn't work as well. Not sure where i'm going
wrong.
2. I've an external monitor that got detected automatically in an Arch
install in another partition. I had xfce there and there's a Display option
which detects the new monitor where i can choose the appropriate resolution.
However i couldn't see anything similar in openbox so i've a default
resolution which doesn't work too well. Any way to select my new monitor?
While compiling the kernel i seem to have compiled external device support
natively so hoped to use the monitor.
3. Can i upgrade to 2.8 from my existing 2.7.1 installation? If so, can you
please let me know the steps for that or should i wait until RC goes gold
thereby all existing issues can be fixed?
Thanks in advance.
-Murali.
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Re: Requesting help on Crux

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