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On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 05:50:18PM +1200, Steven wrote:
> James wrote:
> >
> > So, how would I go about starting just the 
> > normal Xvesa on boot? 
> 
> What do you mean by "normal"?  With a wm?

I mean the gui session I get when I issue startx under my BL 3.4 installation.

> > -------------------------------------
> > tty1::respawn:/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/startx
> > -------------------------------------
> 
> That could work.  However, when you start something 
> from inittab, there is no PATH set.  You have 
> correctly used the full pathnames above, but startx 
> (and the executables that follow) also will not have
> a PATH set.

So I will need to create some kind of executable along the lines of the one 
you initially suggested, but without 
invoking mgp. Any pointers on doing that? Your initial suggestion, that 
involved running mgp upon starting Xvesa, is as 
follows

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PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
Xvesa -terminate -screen 800x600x15 &
sleep 1
DISPLAY=:0 mgp /usr/share/mgp/lesson4.mgp
---------------------------------------------------

Using that as a model, would I just leave off the last two lines such that it 
looks like the following?

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PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
Xvesa -terminate -screen 800x600x15 &
---------------------------------------------------

> I don't know.  Please indicate where there is a ftp 
> server access problem, and I will try out the new
> links.

None of the ftp servers linked to from the BL mainpage that are listed as 
Slack 4 mirrors work with the BL3.4 links. 
Please try those and let us know if you get a directory listing using the 
links from BL3.5 (you might want to try the 
old links for comparison).

James