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- From: rimkus@netcom.com (Mike Rimkus)
- Subject: [XFree86 386BSD] can't xinit (help!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.103352.20052@netcom.com>
- Summary: X server dies swiftly, w/o message
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:33:52 GMT
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- When I run xinit, as root, I get two lines of version info then:
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- Configured drivers:
- VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
- et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
- XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
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- etc. The server doesn't give me a clue as to why it's failing. I'm fairly new
- to X, so it may be something obvious.
-
- The XFree86 docs make much fuss about getting proper Xconfig values, else
- X won't work. I had placed a ModeDB line in Xconfig (Is there Xconfig
- documentation, BTW?) that I got as output from "xclk -h 45 704". (My ATI Ultra
- board has 45 & 33MHz crystals. My Gateway CrystalScan 1024NI accepts 48KHz
- horzontal.) clock.exe from the Linux distribution didn't give me clock rates,
- it just hung my machine. Do I need the clock.exe output to create some "Clocks"
- line in the vga256 section of Xconfig?
-