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- From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
- Subject: Re: xfree startup
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:10:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.221026.8363@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <SSCALSK.92Dec17125112@nswc-wo.?>
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- In article <SSCALSK.92Dec17125112@nswc-wo.?> sscalsk@nswc-wo.? (Stanley Scalsky) writes:
- > Can anyone provide a pointer on the following:
- >
- > what mode/resolution/clock does the intro screen using when starting?
- >
- > I have xfree1.1 running with good viewable 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768
- > modes under linux .99, but what I suppose is the intro screen is always
- > unreadable. I am supposing that the intro screen is in black and white
- > only because I can detect no color. Anyway after that screen clears my
- > main mode locks in and everything is perfect. Any hints?
- >
- > -= stan sscalsk@nswc-wo.navy.mil
-
- What's going on is the device probes. This causes lots of register toggling,
- essentially stepping though a bunch of pseudo-modes while it tries to figure
- out what hardware you've got. Once it identifies your hardware, the
- unreadable garbage is whatever is in the SVGA memory (i.e. random), until
- the rest of the server has finished initializing, and brings up the
- checkerboard background.
-
- You can reduce the probe time by specifying, chipset, clocks, memory
- etc in the Xconfig file (i.e. so it doesn't have to probe). It's usually
- best to let the server probe, to find out what the parameters should be,
- then put those parameters in your Xconfig file. You obviously don't want
- to do this if you intend to use your Xconfig file in multiple configurations.
-
- The next release of the server will blank the screen instead of displaying
- the random garbage. I hope this explains what's going on.
-
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