To install the operating system we followed the procedure Ken used to build his standalone linux boxProject 1 - Linux Install / Linux VM Server Install

 1. Update. * ' aptitude update '

 2. ' aptitude upgrade '

 3. Install video driver. We used; wget http://10.80.2.6/files/student/nvidia173.run (because we already had this on the lab server)
        * chmod 777 nvidia173.run ; to compile the driver
        
        * ./nvidia173.run ; to install the driver. We ran into some problems here. To get around them we used 'aptitude install build-essential' and aptitude install linux-sorce-2.6.31 to bring the system up to date.
  
        * Using the dpkg -l | grep nvidia we found all the nvidia files we needed too, and installed all files that showed up with aptitude install

• In the xorg.config file we needed to edit Nvidia to nvidia, and uncomment NoLogo and TwinView lines.

    ' scp /etc/X11/xorg.conf 10.80.2.194 '

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' aptitude install fluxbox ' on both systems

• To set the screens to either act verticly or horizantly under the /etc/X11 directory we needed to edit the xorg.conf file on both systems. Under the “device” section we need to add Option “MetaModes” “1280×1024 +0+0, 1802×1024 +0+0”

- Use xhost + to enable network communitcations on both machines.

- Use export DISPLAY=10.80.2.194;0 to set the monitors of the second machine to display what is on the first machine.

- Installing Xdmx by using aptitude install xdmx, on both machenes. (Make sure both machenes are set to the same resolution)

- At this point we where able to launch the fluxbox desktop on both systems.

- Then we created a confiuration file that looked like this.

            startx -- /usr/bin/X11/Xdmx:1 -display 10.80.2.199:0 -display 10.80.2.194:0 -ignorebadfontpaths + xinerana
      

- Patch Xdmx. We retrived the new patches from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/xorg-server/2:1.6.4-2ubuntu4.2 (xorg-server_164.org.tar.gz and xorg-server_1.6.4-2ubuntu.4.2.diff)

- To patch files and output any errors to an error file, patch -p1 <xorg-server_1.6.4 2>err

- All of those patched files should be in the /home/vidwall/xorg-server-1.6.4 directory

• config, glx, debian, hw, doc, xkb (all of these should be in the zorg-server-1.6.4 directory)

- To compile these dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

• Remove old files by aptitude remove xdmx (should remove both xdmx and xdmx-tools
• To install new, dpkg -i packagename

At this point we should have had a working system, but we did not. This is what else we tried.

We tried to download and install “dmxpict.patch” from the notes page of this wiki, under systems and networking.

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          in xorg-server-1.6.4/hw/dmx/dmxpict.c edit the file
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          between the line “FIX ME: Handle savng clip region ~” and “DMX_WRAP(Change Picture ~)”
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          XRectanle aRect;
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          aRect.x = 0; aRect.y = 0;
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          Arect.width = 9999 ;
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          ARect.height = 9999;
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          XRenderSetPictureClipRectangles(dmxScreen→beDisplay, pPictPriv→pict,0,0, &aRect,1);

When trying to fix the bad fonts issue we…

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          cd /usr/share/fonts/X11
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          cp fontname fixed.pcf.gz (we chose something that seemed like a 'normal' font name)

NOTE: Because this did not satisfy me I rebuilt the systems using debian Lenny and this process. Once I got this done and tried to bring up the wall I keep having a problem with the mouse. I then googled the problem. The resolution to the problem ended up being to load Xdmx from debian etch. This worked and I was able to bring up the vidoe wall.