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- From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: problems getting X running
- Message-ID: <Aug.19.22.38.33.1992.8120@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 02:38:34 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.194422.25702@esleng.ocunix.on.ca>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- rgb@esleng.ocunix.on.ca (Richard Briggs) writes:
-
- >Hi Linux'ers:
-
- >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.
-
- When I've seen this happen, it's been because Xconfig did not define
- a valid configuration. There must be at least one line in the Modedb
- section where
-
- - the mode at the beginning of the line, e.g. "1024x768",
- matches the mode listed in the Modes line.
- - the dot clock (the number immediately following the mode)
- matches one of the clocks in the Clocks line. Or
- if there is no Clocks line, one of the clocks that X386
- figures out for itself.
-
- If more than one mode is listed in the Modes line, there must be
- a matching line for each one.
-
- I believe your problem is that you do not have a Modes line.
-