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- From: fmn@nevada.edu (FRANK NEEDHAM)
- Subject: Re: X on Enhanced VGA! (almost)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.231326.24971@nevada.edu>
- Sender: fmn@redrock.nevada.edu
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- Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Services
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:13:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.200423.20521@nevada.edu> fmn@nevada.edu (FRANK NEEDHAM) writes:
- >ok,
- >
- >With a lot of help, X is almost working on this card, YES! Thanks Scott.
- >
- >I have done the following, made sure the dir /tmp/.X11-unix exists, checked the
- >paths in etc/profile (they seem ok),cp'd xserverrc and xinit to the dir / and
- >used chown on them.
- >I then cp'd system.twmrc to /, renamed it to .twmrc. Does this file also need
- >to have the chown run on it?
- >When X is fired up, a grey screen with a cross-hatch pattern happens and it
- >stays. The <ctrl><alt><bkspc> sequence still doesn't kill the server.
- >Can anyone share some ideas on what I might try from here?
- >
- >thanks,
- >-frank
- >
- I know, I'm following up my own posts. As long as I know I'm stumbling around
- in the dark, why should it matter if anyone else does too :-)?
-
- The following is captured when 'startx 2> <file>'is run:
-
- no SIOCGIFCONF
- XFree86 Version 1.0Ya / X Window System
- (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
- Configured drivers:
- VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
- et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
- VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 16)
- VGA256: clocks: 25 28 33 36 40 45 32 38 50 57 65 72 80 90 63 75
-
- Fatal server error:
- There is no defined dot-clock matching mode "1024x768"
-
-
- giving up.
- xinit: Invalid argument (errno 22): unable to connect to X server
- xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
-
- Would someone be kind enough to explain what these errors mean please?
- thanks,
- -frank
-