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pratikmsinha

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From: San Diego

Registered: 2006-07-22

Posts: 3

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Qingy Woes

I have been trying to get qingy to work as i dislike kdm/gdm/xdm - too heavy. I have read a lot of posts on the forum and I have documented the things i have changed below.

I'm using a R51 laptop which according to me works on a max resolution of 1024x768 and depth 24.

I used Snowman's package in the AUR to install qingy on my machine.

I added the following new entries to the inittab, commenting out those corresponding to agetty for vc[1-5]
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/qingy tty1
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/qingy tty2
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/qingy tty3
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/qingy tty4
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/qingy tty5

I changed my /boot/grub/menu.lst to include vga=0x318

I changed a line in /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules
from => KERNEL=="tty[0-9]*",    NAME="vc/%n", SYMLINK+="%k"
to => KERNEL=="tty[0-9]*",    NAME="tty%n"

My /etc/fb.modes is as follows (Generated by fbset):

mode "1024x768-76"
    # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz
    geometry 1024 768 1024 768 8
    timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4
    rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,8/0
endmode

My /etc/directfbrc is as follows

mode=1024x768
depth=24

What more do i need to do/undo to get qingy to work? I have tried various combinations of the above configuration unsuccesfully. Everytime the laptop boots up, it gives ma a blank screen.

Any inputs would be really helpful

Thanks,
Pratik

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Qingy Woes

To begin with, you don't need to modify udev.rules anymore. If your system is up-to-date, it will be taken care by the udev package. Qingy 0.9.0 is out and has logging capabilities. I'm working on an updated PKGBUILD. If the newest version doesn't fix your problem, it will at least give us an error message. I'll let let you know in this thread when it'll be ready.

kozaki

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From: London >. < Paris

Registered: 2005-06-13

Posts: 674

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Re: Qingy Woes

I wanted to give qingy a try on a server without X PC I'm building
It won't  build on a custom kernel without X support

idirectfbvideoprovider_v4l.c:47:27: error: xorg/compiler.h: No such file or directory

May be obvious for alot of people ; consider this as a reminder for the few people that may build Arch without X.

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