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- From: slh1y@cc.usu.edu (Jay Cliburn)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: X and Packard-Bell/Oak, anyone?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.125123.60893@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 12:51:23 MDT
- Organization: Utah State University
- Lines: 34
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- Please reply via email to: jay@prometheus.idec.sdl.usu.edu
-
- Has anyone had success getting X to run on a Packard-Bell system?
- Specifically, I have a PB 8528SV monitor and a vanilla Oak
- OTI 067 chipset SVGA board running in a PB 386DX-33 with 4 meg
- RAM. I have a 64 meg MS-DOS partition and a 64 meg Linux
- partition loaded with the SLS Linux 0.98pl4 release
- (a, b, c, & x disks from tsx-11.mit.edu).
-
- I've read the readme's in /usr/X386/lib/X11 and I understand the
- concepts, but I recently moved and cannot locate my monitor
- spec sheet to get the sync rates. Additionally, my video board
- document is virtually worthless -- providing no information
- beyond the bare-bones setup stuff. The oscillator on the
- board is stamped with the number 4.31818 -- I presume that is
- the frequency of the board in MHz.
-
- I tried both the 640 x 480 VGA mode and the mono mode, but I
- was apparently doing something wrong, since I got either
- distorted garbage or nothing on the screen when I ran startx.
- The first message I get when X dies is:
-
- "Creating TCP Socket: Invalid Argument"
-
- Is this significant? Do I need to recompile the kernel to
- include TCPIP? (Don't laugh... I've never done it :-)
-
- I'd sure like to have some tutoring on this X thang. Any
- and all help appreciated.
- --
- Jay Cliburn jay@prometheus.idec.sdl.usu.edu
- TRW Ballistic Missiles Division slh1y@cc.usu.edu
- Space Dynamics Laboratory
- Logan, Utah, USA
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