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- Path: sparky!uunet!nih-csl!darwin.sura.net!vargish
- From: vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish)
- Subject: Paradise256K X success! & a mouse Q.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.174213.24158@sura.net>
- Summary: longish, with Xconfig
- Sender: news@sura.net (USENET News System)
- Organization: SURAnet, College Park, MD, USA, NA, Earth, Milky Way
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 17:42:13 GMT
- Lines: 84
-
- "It's alive!"
-
- If you're trying to get X running on an old Paradise 256K card, here's
- some info that may help. After the expository text, I do have a
- request for help on mice...
-
- Some may remember that I was having trouble getting X running. Well, I
- since got my "new" (second hand) hard drive, giving me 100M more room
- for Linux. Feeling intrepid -- not to mention liberal with storage --
- I went and got the X11 1.1 distribution files (available at all fine
- ftp sites), unpacked them in the root directory. I had to relink
- /lib/libX11.1.1, but that was straightforward.
-
- The upshot is that the Xconfig I have included at the end of this post
- works for my obsolete Paradise 256K SVGA card. Caveats are that the
- resolution is terrible (640x400 -- less than half the res. of the
- DECstations at work :^) and the aspect ratio is pretty ugly
- (squashed). If you have a vertical-size widget on the front of your
- monitor, you may want to fiddle with it (mine's on the back, and thus
- not practical, since I switch between the console and X a lot). No
- complaints, though -- it's great to see X on PeeCee hardware!
-
- My one unhappiness is that I can't get all three buttons on my mouse
- to respond... Actually, I have two mice, but I can't get my Logitech
- bus mouse working (I have yet to try fiddling with the IRQ jumper) at
- all -- on boot, I do see the "bus mouse installed" [sic.] message. I
- tried "mknod /dev/mouse c 10 0", but no joy.
-
- The mouse that does work is a Real Cheap(tm) serial mouse, which is
- set up as /dev/mouse (symblinked to /dev/ttys1)... but only two of the
- three buttons are recognized. The mouse does have a MS (Micro$haft)/PC
- switch on it, which is set to MS. Any suggestions on getting either
- working with all three buttons?
-
- Without further ado, here's the Xconfig.
-
- --CUT HERE-----------------------------------------------------begin Xconfig--
-
- # modified by Nick Vargish for Paradise 256k cards: 640x400x256 (1992/08/16)
- # poor resolution and terrible aspect ratio, but it _is_ X
-
- # some nice paths, to avoid conflicts with other X-servers
- #RGBPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
- #FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
- FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
-
- Keyboard
- AutoRepeat 500 5
- ServerNumLock
-
- # mouse settings
- Microsoft "/dev/mouse"
- BaudRate 1200
-
- # set up drivers for 256K Paradise cards at 640x400.
- vga256
- Virtual 640 400
- ViewPort 0 0
- Modes "640x400"
- Clocks 25 28 57 72 78 68 50 62
- Chipset "pvga1"
- Displaysize 640 400
- Videoram 256
-
- ModeDB
- # at 28 there's pretty bad vertical squash, but the stretch at 25 is even
- # worse (some of the screen disappears off the top of my monitor). also,
- # pixels are "tighter" at 28. (I just got things working... the technical
- # terms are beyond me.) -- N.V.
- #
- # clock horzontal timing vertical timing
- "640x400" 28 640 672 768 800 400 490 492 525
- #"640x400" 25 640 672 768 800 400 490 492 525
-
- --CUT HERE-------------------------------------------------------end Xconfig--
-
- Cheers,
-
- Nick
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