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- From: meggin@epas.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
- Subject: SLS Mono X386 Goes Looney: Help!
- Organization: University of Toronto - EPAS
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:26:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.132647.13786@epas.toronto.edu>
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- I have been installing the newest SLS distribution on my Samsung
- Notemaster 386SX/25e. So far, it has been laughably easy -- I
- recompiled the kernel to eliminate a numlock problem, and have
- everything configured exactly as I would like it.
-
- Then, unfortunately, I tried installing the SLS X series. I cannot
- find out what kind of VGA card this computer has simply by reading the
- manual, but here is what I do know:
-
- - Video RAM from 0A0000 to 0BFFFF.
- - max. 640x480 display
- - backlit LCD
- - up to 64 levels of gray
-
- I linked X386mono to X, and Xconfig.mono to Xconfig. X Windows
- starts, complains about not finding a certain signal, then fills my
- screen with vertical bars and completely hangs the system -- even
- [Cntrl]-[Alt]-[Del], [Cntrl]-[Alt]-[BS] etc. do nothing, and the
- update daemon doesn't spin the drive. As a result, I cannot redirect
- output to a file, because the file will never be written to disk
- before the system hangs and has to be powered down.
-
- VGALIB works perfectly, BTW. I have 4MB RAM with an 8MB swap file
- enabled -- I know that this will be slow, but it still should work.
- Can anyone offer me any suggestions?
-
-
- David
-