[cobalt-developers] Xfree86 4 + Colbalt Cube - PLEASE HELP

["Dave Brillhart" <Dave.Brillhart@xxxxxxx>]

Please respond directly to me if you have insight into how one might
get Xfree86 to work on a display attached to a Cobalt box...

I know it isn't supported... but I also know it'll work if I can get
past this one issue...

Regards,

-- Dave

----- Original Message -----

I have a Cobalt Cube 3, a headless "appliance". It has a PCI slot,
however, and I installed an ATI XPERT128 PCI card (16MB).
It does not support a keyboard or mouse. This is a Linux box
that is intended to be more of a frontend "firewall/server" machine
that is web administered. But I need a display for a particular
usage - which will display digital images as controlled by a process
running on the box.

I loaded the latest 4.1.0 Xfree86 binaries, based on the suggestion
of  "Xinstall.sh -check".  Ran thru the xf86config menus. And
tried to "startx". But it fails due to no /dev/tty0. I tried to point tty0
to /dev/pts/0 to fake it out, and tried to comment out the Keyboard
and Mouse entries in XF86Config, but no luck.

Any idea how to get Xfree86 to work on a system with a
video card but no keyboard or mouse???

Here is the "Xinstall.sh -check" output:
===============================
   [root /tmp]# sh Xinstall.sh -check
   Checking which OS you're running...
   uname reports 'Linux' version '2.2.16C7', architecture 'i586'.
   Object format is 'ELF'.  libc version is '6.1.3' (6.1).
   Binary distribution name is 'Linux-ix86-glibc21'

Here is the "startx" output:
================================
XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510)
Release Date: 2 June 2001
        If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
        newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
        reporting problems.  (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.5 i686 [ELF]
Module Loader present
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu Jul 26 18:50:16 2001
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) ServerLayout "Simple Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen 1" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "My Monitor"
(**) |   |-->Device "ATI Rage 128"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1"
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) XKB: model: "pc101"
(**) XKB: layout: "us"
(**) FontPath set to
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/m
isc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
/"
(**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"

Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)

When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxxx

X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).


THANKS!!!!!!!

-- Dave
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