[olpc-software] Starting X program

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Thu Jun 22 18:48:54 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 18:04 +0200, Teus Benschop wrote:
> /etc/inittab is set to runlevel 5, and Sugar starts in the simulator.
> 
> But once in Sugar, I can't get a command prompt, and don't know how to 
> start any X program.

Ctrl+Alt+F1 will get you a login prompt on VT1 just like any other linux
box...

Dan

> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Teus.
> 
> ashok shankar das wrote:
> > Teus Benschop wrote:
> >
> >> Does anybody know how to start an X program within the OLPC simulator?
> >>
> >> I mounted the image, went to /home/olpc and found .xinitrc, but any 
> >> programs called there do not seem to start on boot.
> >>
> >> Any help is appreciated.
> >>
> >> Teus.
> >>
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> > X is generaly started by init level 5.
> > Which runlevel you are getting?
> > If you are getting runlevel 3 then try init 5 in command prompt
> > else try startx from your command prompt.
> >
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