SGFXI Error 242
jlowery
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I have an old Sidux/aptosid install where sgfxi has stopped working. I have an nVidia card with a Liquorix kernel 3.13-5. When I run smxi, and get to the graphics portion of the install, I get "error 242 This script requires Xorg 7.1 or greater". I have xorg installed, I have uninstalled xorg and reinstalled it but no luck. Any thoughts as to what I am missing? This issue started about 3 weeks ago.
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Show: inxi -bx

so I can see the system specs/desktop/xorg specs.
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SGFXI Error 242
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Card: NVIDIA GT210 [GeForce 840 GS Rev.3] bus-ID:01:00.0 X-Vendor: N/A driver: nvidia tty size: 80 x 25 Advanced Data: N/A for root out of X.
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Do not post the results of only one line, and do not post it as root user.

As regular user, post exactly what I asked for, which is why I asked for it:

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inxi -bx

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jlowery
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$ inxi -bx
System:    Host: aptosidbox Kernel: 3.13-5.dmz.2-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
           Console: tty 3 Distro: aptosid 2011-03 Πόνος - xfce - (201112312100)
Machine:   Mobo: Gigabyte model: GA-78LMT-S2P version: x.x Bios: Award version: F2 date: 03/20/2012
CPU:       Quad core AMD Phenom II X4 B93 (-MCP-) clocked at 2800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           X-Vendor: N/A driver: nvidia tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A out of X
Network:   Card: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet driver: atl1c ver: 1.0.1.1-NAPI port: df00 bus-ID: 02:00.0
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (28.2% used)
Info:      Processes: 133 Uptime: 38 min Memory: 142.2/7987.5MB Runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.8.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.2.45) inxi: 1.9.17

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As you can see, inxi agrees with sgfxi, there is no xorg installed.

I double checked this one, and inxi out of X shows the xorg version, which of course it has to, since it's asking xorg its version.

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X -version


will probably give you a missing program error, unless it doesn't, then post the output here, it's faintly possible that the syntax is off, but I doubt it.
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My all-time favorite since I've never understood any X stuff.

Bearing in mind I have essentially the same system as the OP.

Inxi -bx or X -version gives me 1.15.0.

So how do we get to Xorg 7.1? Where is it looking?

My question for the OP is, what did you specifically mean
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I have xorg installed, I have uninstalled xorg and reinstalled it

I have never had the xorg pkg. Lots of xserver-xorg though.

And finally, is everything working OK with the exception of the sgfxi error?
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sgfxi and inxi do the same rough check, they ask for X -version, if that is null, they ask for Xorg -version, then it says, ok, no X or Xorg, so there is no usable display server installed.

On the bright side, this motivated me to update inxi's display server data in -G, it will in the near future offer better data:

Display Server: Xorg 1.15.1 (for example). This is to prepare it for things like wayland and maybe mir, though I'm reluctant to spend time on stuff I view as having no future.

For sgfxi, however, all it needs to know is that there is no X server installed or available, since there is no video driver made by nvidia/amd-fglrx that supports mir or wayland, so if X is missing, there is nothing further to do but exit.

I suggest the OP reinstall xorg via smxi. I'm guessing a corrupted install or something else.
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jlowery
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Ran X -version. Got an error stating libGL.so.1 was not available. Using apt downloaded libGL1-nvidia-glx. That got enough of X working that smxi was able to fix the rest. Thanks for the help.
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