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- From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [XFree86 386BSD] can't xinit (help!)
- Message-ID: <RICH.92Dec18122434@superego.Rice.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 18:24:34 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.103352.20052@netcom.com>
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- Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu
- Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
- University
- Lines: 52
- In-Reply-To: rimkus@netcom.com's message of Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:33:52 GMT
-
- >>>>> In article <1992Dec18.103352.20052@netcom.com>, rimkus@netcom.com (Mike Rimkus) writes:
-
- Mike> When I run xinit, as root, I get two lines of version info then:
- Mike> -----------------
- Mike> Configured drivers:
- Mike> VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
- Mike> et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
- Mike> XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
- Mike> -----------------
- Mike> etc. The server doesn't give me a clue as to why it's failing. I'm fairly new
- Mike> to X, so it may be something obvious.
-
-
- First, redirect the error messages to a file:
- xinit >& xinit.out
- because otherwise those messages which are printed while the console
- is in graphics mode are lost. You get more information this way.
-
- Mike> The XFree86 docs make much fuss about getting proper Xconfig values, else
- Mike> X won't work. I had placed a ModeDB line in Xconfig (Is there Xconfig
- Mike> documentation, BTW?) that I got as output from "xclk -h 45 704". (My ATI Ultra
- Mike> board has 45 & 33MHz crystals. My Gateway CrystalScan 1024NI accepts 48KHz
- Mike> horzontal.) clock.exe from the Linux distribution didn't give me clock rates,
- Mike> it just hung my machine. Do I need the clock.exe output to create some "Clocks"
- Mike> line in the vga256 section of Xconfig?
-
-
- First, don't use the obsolete clock.exe program because it will
- not work for many vga cards that XFree86 supports. The XFree86 1.1 X
- server has improved clock detection built in. Let it detect the dot
- clocks and save them in a file:
-
- xinit >& xinit.out
-
- If your card is supported, it will report your chipset (et4000 in this
- example) as well as the video memory size and number of clocks:
-
- VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 16)
-
- It will then report the values of all the dot clocks it can measure:
-
- VGA256: clocks: 25 28 33 37 40 45 80 65 13 15 17 19 20 23 0 0
-
- It is recommended that once you find these values you put them back in
- your Xconfig. The server will start up slightly faster if you do.
- For example:
-
- Chipset "et4000"
- Videoram 1024
- clocks 25 28 33 37 40 45 80 65 13 15 17 19 20 23 0 0
-
- Rich
-