XGL on dapper beta

[Erlend Simonsen]

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 00:25 +0200, Dimitri Mallis wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> i upgraded from breezy to dapper. apart form my slow internet
> connection after 7hrs it was looking great & things were working
> better than ever. i was geting higher fps on my 3D apps. which was
> exciting... 
> 
> i saw a demonstration with XGL & was blown away, so i had to try it. i
> installed & configures it. things were all well. my desktop was
> spinning & going all nice & wobbly :) then i wanted to reboot so i
> tried to log out but my pc hanged so i pushed restart :< 
> 
> now when i boot back in i get a error
> 
> GDM: Xserver not found: /usr/local/bin/Xgl :0 :0 -fullscreen -ac
> -accel xv -accel glx:pbuffer -auth /varlib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp
> vt7
> Error: Command could not be excecuted! 
> Please install the X server or correct GDM configuration and restart
> GDM
> 
> i ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, all the value had changed so i
> corrected them but that didnt help me
> 
> when i type X the screen shows a grey mesh & thats about all 
> 
> does anyone know how i can fix this or how i can go back to a normal
> 2D desktop?

You seem to have /usr/local/bin/Xgl as the command in gdm.conf, either
change [server-Standard] back to "command=/usr/bin/X -br -audit 0" or
change the Xgl path to /usr/bin/Xgl instead of /usr/local/bin/Xgl (most
of the recent Xgl packages put the binary there instead
of /usr/local/bin)


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Erlend Simonsen <mr at fudgie.org>
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