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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!cunews!revcan!esleng!rgb
- From: rgb@esleng.ocunix.on.ca (Richard Briggs)
- Subject: problems getting X running
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.194422.25702@esleng.ocunix.on.ca>
- Organization: Excalibur Systems Limited, Kanata, Ontario, Canada
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:44:22 GMT
- Lines: 147
-
- Hi Linux'ers:
-
- So far, I'm quite pleased and excited about what I've seen in Linux. I've
- been following since ver 0.11 and am anticipating developments in TCP/IP.
-
- I have, however had problems getting X running. I've tried versions 0.1,
- 1.0 and now 1.1 with shared libs from gcc2.11 and gcc2.2.2 and have not been
- able to get anywhere. Here is part of my setup and a sample of the errors
- I'm getting. I am initializing 4 virtual terminals in inittab.
-
- Any time I try to initialize, the screen goes dead and a terminal on a serial
- port is the only feedback I've been able to get aside from capture files. Any
- help and insight to these problems would be greatly appreciated. I have been
- dying to get X running for about 4 Months now and finally gave up and decided
- to approach the friendly people on the net. Thanks in advance...
-
- setup: AMD 386DX-40
- 68 MB IDE drive, /dev/hda1 is 60 MB /
- /dev/hda2 is 8 MB Swap
- Tricom MEGA, 1024K mem
- NEC MultiSync II
- MCC-Interim Linux release 0.96c (with GCC 2.2.2)
- X11v1.1
- ***************************************************
- Xconfig:
- # $XConsortium: Xconfig,v 1.2 91/08/26 14:34:55 gildea Exp $
- #
- FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
-
- Keyboard
- AutoRepeat 500 5
- # Xleds 1 2 3
- ServerNumLock
- # DontZap
-
- MouseSystems "/dev/ttys0"
- BaudRate 1200
- # Emulate3Buttons
-
- #
- # The graphics drivers
- #
- vga256
- Virtual 1152 910
- Clocks 25 28 62 36 25 28 62 45
- Chipset "et4000"
- Displaysize 1040 772
- Videoram 1024
-
- ModeDB
- # Monitor: NEC Multisync II
- # name clock horizontal timing vertical timing flags
- "640x480" 28 640 676 776 812 480 480 485 505
- "752x564" 36 752 788 916 952 564 564 569 594
- "800x600" 40 800 864 1000 1056 600 600 605 631
-
- ***************************************************
- startx:
- #!/bin/sh
-
- # $XConsortium: startx.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:29 rws Exp $
- #
- userclientrc=$HOME/.xinitrc
- userserverrc=$HOME/.xserverrc
- sysclientrc=/usr/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
- sysserverrc=/usr/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
- clientargs=""
- serverargs=""
-
- if [ -f $userclientrc ]; then
- clientargs=$userclientrc
- else if [ -f $sysclientrc ]; then
- clientargs=$sysclientrc
- fi
- fi
-
- if [ -f $userserverrc ]; then
- serverargs=$userserverrc
- else if [ -f $sysserverrc ]; then
- serverargs=$sysserverrc
- fi
- fi
-
- whoseargs="client"
- while [ "x$1" != "x" ]; do
- case "$1" in
- /''*|\.*) if [ "$whoseargs" = "client" ]; then
- clientargs="$1"
- else
- serverargs="$1"
- fi ;;
- --) whoseargs="server" ;;
- *) if [ "$whoseargs" = "client" ]; then
- clientargs="$clientargs $1"
- else
- serverargs="$serverargs $1"
- fi ;;
- esac
- shift
- done
-
- xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs
-
- ***************************************************
- ls -l /dev:
- total 44
- crw--w--w- 2 root other 4, 0 Jun 30 12:33 console
- cr--r----- 1 bin mem 1, 2 Mar 19 11:10 kmem
- c-w--w--w- 1 bin lp 6, 0 Apr 14 11:32 lp0
- ...
- c-w--w--w- 1 bin lp 6, 2 Apr 15 13:56 lp3
- cr--r----- 1 bin mem 1, 1 Mar 19 11:10 mem
- crw------- 1 root root 10, 0 Aug 14 23:29 mouse
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Mar 19 11:10 null
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 4 Mar 19 11:10 port
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4, 128 Mar 19 11:10 ptyp0
- ...
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4, 143 Mar 19 11:10 ptypf
- brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 1 Mar 19 11:10 ram
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 0 Apr 5 12:53 tty
- crw--w--w- 2 root other 4, 0 Jun 30 12:33 tty0
- ...
- crw--w--w- 1 root root 4, 8 Aug 17 20:58 tty8
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4, 192 Mar 19 11:10 ttyp0
- ...
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4, 207 Mar 19 11:10 ttypf
- crw--w--w- 1 root root 4, 64 Aug 11 20:05 ttys0
- ...
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4, 67 Mar 19 11:10 ttys3
-
- ***************************************************
- errors:
-
- giving up.
- xinit: Invalid argument (errno 22): unable to connect to X server
- xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
-
- giving up.
- xinit: Interrupted system call (errno 4): unable to connect to X server
- xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
-
-
- --
- __________________________________________________________________________
- Richard Guy Briggs | briggs@aix1.uottawa.ca
- Excalibur Systems Limited | rgb@[esleng|excalibur].ocunix.on.ca
- Kanata, Ontario, Canada | [esleng|excalibur]!rgb
-