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- From: meissner@triton.unm.edu (John Meissner)
- Subject: X386 Installation Woes
- Message-ID: <g7xnmdp@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 00:27:58 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- After obtaining the X386 release from agate.berkeley.edu (/pub/incoming/X386),
- I find that I am unable to make it do anything after performing the steps
- outlined for installation. I have made the appropriate links, installed the
- kernel which was provided with the distribution, mknod /dev/vga, and
- everything else I can think of.
-
- When I start X, 'startx', the screen clears, I get some strange graphic stuff
- on the screen in graphics mode, and then the server restores to text mode
- with the error message 'XIO fatal IO error 32 (Broken Pipe)'. After running
- xdm and examining the file 'xdm-errors', I see that X is detecting my video
- board as an ET4000 with 16 clocks (the first few are correct), and then
- it follows with an error message to the effect 'fatal server error, cannot
- load default font 'fixed''.
-
- Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can try to get this thing up and
- running? Thank you for your time and effort.
-