On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 01:39 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Samuel Thibault, le Wed 03 Nov 2010 01:05:34 +0100, a écrit : > > > How to > > > get X running with or without curses in a terminal with a reasonable > > > resolution, like 1280x1024x16. The qemu man page says one should use -vga > > > std to be able to use larger resolutions. How? > > > > By running -vga std, and then try to run Xorg, see whether it just > > already uses a good resolution, else configure it, etc. > > Actually I've just tried it: it's awfully slow and does not support DDE > so that Xorg doesn't dare more than 800x600. You should probably rather > let qemu use the default cirrus, or better, use -vga vmware and install > xserver-xorg-video-vmware, that works for me, and xrandr can be used to > resize at will.
I tried to start X with the cirrus driver and got hit by Debian bug #590715 reported for 2:1.7.7-3 (with patch by Samuel) and another for fbdevhw, see below. Hurd version of xorg-server is 2:1.7.7-8. Has this not been fixed? Z.org X Server 1.7.7 Release date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build operating system: GNU 0.3 GNU-Mach 1.3.99/Hurd-0.3 i686-AT386 Build date: 10 October 2010 12:07:22PM xorg-server 2:1.7.7-8 (Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org>) Current version of pixman: 0.16.4 ... (EE) Loadmodule: FModule fbdevhw does not have a fbdevhwModule data object. (EE) Failed to load module "fbdevhw" (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: undefined symbol: _glapi_tls_Context) (EE) GLX: could not load software renderer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1288819672.3471.46.ca...@hp.my.own.domain
