Hi.

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to get Linux to boot directly to a program, skipping the dashboard altogether, much like how XMUGEN does. I posted a thread a while back about it but the guy who responded got banned so I never really got a definitive answer. I then tried out some linux chat rooms and got snubbed, same on forums.

I hope someone can help me on this.

How are you booting linux? Xromwell XBE or Cromwell BIOS? Program meaning Linux program or XBE? What is your xbox dashboard?

Well I havn't picked a version of linux to use yet because I wasnt sure which could do this (If any, or all). But I am using unleashedX. I want to make a linux XBE that boots a program directly, like XMugen does.

bc54 wrote this: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?s=&...t&p=4519642

You will still need the dash unless your xbox is flashed to Cromwell, in which case, it will only run Linux and not other XBE

I wasn't really trying to get Xmugen running, just something that will load as Xmugen does.

for example, I have "X Program" which is a linux program, just like Mugen is. Mugen has a XBE file that loads Mugen using Linux, yet you never see the Linux Dashboard..... I want my "X Program" to load in the same fashion.

That was my question, how to get Linux programs to boot directly, without loading to the Linux Dashboard, not the Xbox dashboard.

Maybe you can change the startup much like you change x.

For instance if I want to change the x manager at startup in xebian I can make a txt file in my home directory call it .xsession and add the start command for my preferred x manager. This file contains the command for anything I want to run at startup. In xebian I hate the packaged window manger so I build kde and to load kde at startup I make the file called .xsession drop it in my home directory and add the command

exec startkde


This makes kde the default at startup. I also add dhclient to the list because xebian likes to install in static.


Because these 2 programs launch at startup the way they do I can only imagine anything else you wanted to load would run the same way. I guess it will depend on the application itself weather it draws its own x or if it uses the preexisting x. If it does need x then you would have to find a way to run x as a background service that the apps were still able to use.

However xbox linux only has 2d drivers there are no drivers made to take advantage of the xbox's 3d potential.

Suggest you do some reading up on Linux. I see that based on your description, you want to disable X Windows (that's the Linux GUI) and run a Linux executable (with its own GUI). You'll see your regular xbox dashboard before Linux starts, right?

Anyway the post I linked to earlier on has the details.

Could you recommend what aspect of Linux to read up on to accomplish this? I have a book on Linux, but not sure what the term for what I want to do would be called.

I don't want to make my own GUI, I just want it to run the application of my choice, without loading the Linux GUI. I essentially want to do exactly what the MUGEN loader does, but instead of it loading MUGEN I want it to load the application I want.

Modify this line in /opt/bootlocal.sh



Read up on shell scripts, bash shell and X Windows in that order

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/doc/debian/ch-X.html


This explains what I was talking about.