X11

[orph3us]

I am trying to install X.org natively so that I can use the nvidia bsd drivers in X.

My goal is to switch between aqua and X11 at will.

At the moment however, I cannot find a way to exit aqua back to console once I am in it. I have tried killing processes but all that does is return me to the login prompt.

Does anyone have a clue how to exit aqua?

I can probably do -s at boot and work from there, but then the problem is, how do I start aqua? and then once i am in aqua i have the same problem of not being able to exit.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks!

Paul

[orph3us]

found this to further myself along... but not all the way there yet

http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/348

[orph3us]

ok... after many reboots. i know can log in to console without going to aqua

to do this. i edited /etc/ttys to look like this:

console "/usr/libexec/getty std.57600" vt100 on secure onoption="/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"

#console "/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow" vt100 on secure onoption="/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"

 

originally the second line was uncommented... and i had to add

onoption="/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"

to the getty exec

 

so now my problem is that X won't boot... and I think I know why.

the original X that is installed runs on top of aqua, I first have to uninstall this one, then reinstall X11 from source.

Will post when done.

Hope this interests some other people too

[urielka]

what Nvidia BSD drivers?!

the only BSD nvidia drivers are for FreeBSD which isn`t XNU compatible.

the X11 from Apple is running on top of Aqua it`s just a X-lib emulation.

to install real X.org you need Fink/DarwinPorts/Gentoo-macosx or just from source

EDIT:there for Solaris X86/x86_64 but still nothing for XNU/Darwin, there is only Aqua drivers(for darwin) and that are from Apple/Nvidia

[judy]

You can exit Aqua by typing ">console" at the login window user name prompt. Typing "logout" at the resulting console gets you back in.

[cyrana]

This won't be possible currently. You either deal w/X on 'Aqua', or you install Darwin and just run X in Darwin and no Aqua.

[orph3us]

The way I describe in my 3rd post does not load any Aqua graphics. It's pure darwin.. too bad about the nvidia driver, I didn't know you couldn't run it in darwin, just thought it wouldn't run with aqua running.

Anyway to answer judy, typing >console doesn't give you a real console, aqua is still running when you do that. By doing the method I described, aqua never loads, windowmanager and another service (forgot now, not in osx) don't load.

Urielka I was already aware that the X11 installed is to be run on top of aqua, so I'm going to get rid of that one and reinstall from source.

I plan on doing this within the next couple of days. Maybe there's no point now that I hear that the nvidia drivers probably won't work... but, maybe theres a way?

also, cyrana, its true that you can only run one at a time(X or aqua), but I am going to write a script to switch between them. (it will be easy to start and exit X from pure darwin, but starting and exiting aqua will require some file editing)