Installing X in Debian on the HTC Universal

<a href="Non-Sumou.html">Other Debian GNU/Linux tips</a> <table bgcolor="#000000" border="1"><tr><td border="0"># apt-get install sudo xserver-titchy xfonts-base xauth xinit x11-xserver-utils eterm ratpoison xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi # echo "sudo /etc/X11/X" > /usr/bin/X # chmod 755 /usr/bin/X</td></tr></table>

This will enable you to start X as a non-root user and not have to use a desktop manager like xdm, using up spare system resources on the Universal.

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There is also this, older, method utilizing xdm, however xdm takes system resources and running it on the slow Universal significantly hinders the system, therefore it's deprecated.

Download <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/xserver-titchy-0.1.deb">Titchy X server</a> to the Universal:

<blackcodesu>wget <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/xserver-titchy-0.1.deb">http://sumou.com/uni/xserver-titchy-0.1.deb</a></blackcode>

Install the server, then instal xdm and icewm:

<blackcodesu>dpkg -i xserver-titchy-0.1.deb # aptitude install xdm icewm-experimental</blackcodesu>

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This is an alternate way to install X on the Universal, however it's very complicated and not as clean as the above, therefore it's deprecated.

Based on <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/vebu/yonggun.html">Yonggun's Debian armel install page</a>, originally found <a href="http://yonggun.tistory.com/54">here</a>, install X window manager necessary stuff: <blackcodesu>apt-get install xfonts-base rxvt ratpoison icewm icewm-experimental menu icewm-gnome-support xbase-clients libxft2 libfontconfig1 xbindkeys</blackcodesu>

Download the following packages, originally from Yonggun's site, they are <a href="http://angstrom-distribution.org/">Ångström</a> packages, repackaged for Debian: <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/libts-1.0-0_1.0-r17_armel.deb">libts-1.0-0_1.0-r17_armel.deb</a> <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/tslib-calibrate_1.0-r17_armel.deb">tslib-calibrate_1.0-r17_armel.deb</a> <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/tslib-conf_1.0-r17_armel.deb">tslib-conf_1.0-r17_armel.deb</a> <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/xserver-kdrive_1.3.0.0-r19_armel.deb">xserver-kdrive_1.3.0.0-r19_armel.deb</a> <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/xserver-kdrive-fbdev_1.3.0.0-r19_armel.deb">xserver-kdrive-fbdev_1.3.0.0-r19_armel.deb</a> <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/x-yonggun_0.0_armel.deb">x-yonggun_0.0_armel.deb</a> and install them: <blackcodesu>wget <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/libts-1.0-0_1.0-r17_armel.deb">http://sumou.com/uni/libts-1.0-0_1.0-r17_armel.deb</a> # wget <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/tslib-calibrate_1.0-r17_armel.deb">http://sumou.com/uni/tslib-calibrate_1.0-r17_armel.deb</a> # wget <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/tslib-conf_1.0-r17_armel.deb">http://sumou.com/uni/tslib-conf_1.0-r17_armel.deb</a> # wget <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/xserver-kdrive_1.3.0.0-r19_armel.deb">http://sumou.com/uni/xserver-kdrive_1.3.0.0-r19_armel.deb</a> # wget <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/xserver-kdrive-fbdev_1.3.0.0-r19_armel.deb">http://sumou.com/uni/xserver-kdrive-fbdev_1.3.0.0-r19_armel.deb</a> # wget <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/x-yonggun_0.0_armel.deb">http://sumou.com/uni/x-yonggun_0.0_armel.deb</a> # dpkg -i *ts*deb xserver*deb x-yonggun*deb</blackcodesu>

Following the <a href="http://sumou.com/uni/vebu/oesf-wiki-regular-user-x.html">OESF-wiki X as regular user guide</a> originally found <a href="here">http://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=1-For_Debian_EABI</a> apply the following hack to enable logging into X as a regular user and not root: <blackcodesu>aptitude install xdm # cd /usr/bin # mv X X.bak # ln -s Xfbdev X # chmod 2755 Xfbdev # echo "xlogin*geometry: 520x400+60+40" >> /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources # echo "xrandr -o right" >> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup # mv /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession.bak # sed 's/. /etc/X11/Xsession/export/TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/event0. /etc/X11/Xsession/' < /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession.bak > /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession # mv /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.bak # sed 's/:0 local /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp/:0 local /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp -fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/' < /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.bak > /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers</blackcodesu>

Fix xdm auto-start, so it doesn't start automatically on boot, since then it will not be started properly with all the permissions and you will not be able to use the touchscreen: <blackcodesu>mv /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /etc/rc2.d/K01xdm # mv /etc/rc3.d/S99xdm /etc/rc3.d/K01xdm # mv /etc/rc4.d/S99xdm /etc/rc4.d/K01xdm # mv /etc/rc5.d/S99xdm /etc/rc5.d/K01xdm</blackcodesu>

Log out of the system and log in again as root.

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