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- From: gallersd@picasso.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Rainer Gallersdoerfer)
- Subject: X386 does not switch to graphics mode
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.145408.10262@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
- Keywords: X386
- Sender: news@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Newsfiles Owner)
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- Organization: University of Aachen, W-Germany
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 14:54:08 GMT
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- Hello
-
- I have problems running X386 - after starting via xinit it prints the
- banner and does not switch to graphics mode !
-
- I did the following to set up my system:
-
- - extracted bindist, etcdist, and the X386-tar-file for 386bsd
- - used the patched generic kernel from the X386-tar-file
- - striped X386
- - mknod /dev/vga c 12 0
- - adapted Xconfig for my video-card and Monitor
-
- I've got an ET4000 card called 4MAX for which the utility dmode reports
- the same clock frequencys as mentioned for 2theMAX from modeDB.txt !
- I know that the clock-speeds are generated using a special clock-chip
- and not due to lots of oscillators. I'm not sure whether the card is
- running in 16-bit or 8-bit mode :-(
- The Monitor is an Addonics-Model 7C5. For the beginning I only tried
- standard vga video timing at "640x480" assuming that these timings
- are correct.
-
- NOW THE QUESTIONS:
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- What did I miss, what am I doing wrong ?
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-
- RAINER
-