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- From: ace3@quads.uchicago.edu (Tony 'LLama' Acero)
- Subject: X386 for 8514A - Misc Notes and Problems
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.041737.10284@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 04:17:37 GMT
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- First, many thanks to Kevin Martin for all his work on the 8514 port of
- X386 to Linux!! Things seem to be working almost flawlessly! Implicit, of
- course, are thanks to Linus and the legions of hackers that have made every
- thing possible.
-
- Ok. Through a bit of good fortune, an ATI 8514 Ultra has come into my
- possession. The Ultra is a subset of the more recoginized (to me at least)
- ATI Graphics Ultra. It lacks standard VGA (it must be piggy-backed off an
- existing VGA adapter using the (ahem) 'feature connector'), bus mouse and
- port.
-
- While I was trying to setup the card, I ran into an UNDOCUMENTED FEATURE:
- the card's ports are at addresses in the neighborhood of 0x2e0. This is
- where COM4 tends to live. If you have COM4 you may need to disable it to
- get the card to work. This potential conflict is not documented in the
- manual, although tech support seems to be well acquainted with it :-). So
- for a good while last night it seemed my bit of good fortune was actually
- the reverse, but fortunately this was not the case.
-
- So I grabbed the X386 1.1 distribution from
- tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/packages/X11/ and overlayed Kevin's 8514 driver,
- and followed the relatively straight-forward installation instructions.
-
- Foolishly thinking that was all there was to it I typed 'startx'. Of
- course it locked up...
-
- After looking more carefully at the installation instructions, I
- 'chown root.root /dev/ptyp*'; I had grabbed the MCC-interim release in
- which a lot of binaries and devices tend to by owned by 'bin'.
-
- At this point 'startx' brings up X with clock and shell. If I try to exit
- from the window manager (after closing all the windows) the machine locks
- up tight (ie the NumLock light doesn't even toggle). If I capture std error
- from startx (ie 'startx 2> xerror') xerror contains "xinit: connection to X
- server lost"
-
- Could anyone
-
- 1) Tell me how to avoid the lock-ups when exiting
-
- 2) Tell me if selection is compatible with X386 (I'll be able to answer
- that one myself pretty soon)
-
- 3) Point me to a slightly more detailed guide to setting up X386
-
-
- Many, many thanks,
-
- tony acero
-