Hello all,

I'm running latest Ubuntu on a IBM Thinkpad with all the new eyecandy and stuff and it looks great! (I followed the I915 AIGLX guide to get it to work).
Dapper is starting to become one hell of a fine release!

However, since my main goal for this notebook is business use I will be switching between 2 WM's, blackbox and gnome or working directly from the shell.
That's why I want to remove the GDM so I can start X-Windows manually and go back to the console when done.

So I thought i'll be smart and do a chmod -x /etc/init.d/gdm, of course that works fine, but when I type 'startx' then aiglx isn't loaded since it's booted with the gdm through gdm.conf-custom.
Anybody has a solution to workaround on that?

Thanks in advance!

Hi!

Thanks for your quick answer!
I tried that but it doesn't work, I only get a X-Windows screen without GNome and only my background is shown.
I changed line 22 from /usr/bin/X to /usr/bin/Xorg-air

i guess it's because several other arguments are given in the gdm.conf-custom:

[servers]
0=aiglx

[server-aiglx]
name=aiglx server
command=/usr/bin/Xorg-air :0
flexible=true

I think it has to do with flexible=true, any idea how to add these to the bash script startx?
I tried putting it at server arguments, but it says unrecognized option.

Thanks in advance!

Hey!

Since startx is just a bash script, I guess you can edit it to suit your needs. On line 22 the X server is defined. Try changing /usr/bin/X to Xorg-air.

I don't need it, so I haven't tested it, but it should work. (To test it, I would have to exit my X session, and then I couldn't write this... )

Great, i have it working now!

For who wants to know I also had to change /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc to:

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/X11/Xorg-air -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp

Other option is to create a .xserverrc with the same info to your homedirectory so you can have different xservers for different users.

Thanks for your help!