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- From: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Help needed: S3 / Alpha Server
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 14:21:11 GMT
- Organization: Department Of Computing, Imperial College, London UK
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- References: <1992Nov7.181829.19864@tandem.com>
- Reply-To: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
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- In article <1992Nov7.181829.19864@tandem.com>, tran@tran.Berkeley.EDU
- (Tran) writes:
- |> I have been running SLS 0.98.pl1-40 on my Farenheit 1280 card using the
- |> MONO server and would now like to try the Alpha S3 server from
- |> ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk. I downloaded the source and binaries last night and
- |> installed it on my machine. When I ran "startx", I got just a blue
- background
- |> with no cursor or anything. The mouse did not respond. When I tried to
- |> rebuild the server with the source, mit/server/dix/cursor.c failed
- because it
- |> sourced in /mit/server/include/dixfont.h, which sourced in a non-existent
- |> <font.h>. Would a knowledgeable person out there inform me as to why:
- |>
- |> - the binary for the Alpha server failed to work in the first place and
- |> - where I can find font.h and possibly other missing include files in order
- |> to successfully rebuild the server. (By the way, I did find a copy of
- |> font.h and other include files in the directory /mit/server/include/old.
- |> I tried to compile with these but this generated in many many more
- |> errors. I suspected that this is not the correct files.)
- |>
- |> FYI, I am running on a 486-33 with a local bus Farenheit-1280 (dont know
- |> if that makes a difference. The MONO server seemed to work).
- |>
- |> Regards,
- |>
- |> Hieu T. Tran
- |>
-
- I have a similar configuration and the S3 server works. Try running
- it with the command line 'startx >& out', when the blue background comes
- up it means that the server has not started properly but has not restored
- text mode either. sync, reboot, and read the file 'out' for info on what
- went wrong when the server tried to start. There are lots of possibilities..
- the usual problems are with fonts. You must install the fonts separately,
- e.g. from an XFree86 package, and they must be uncompressed. Other programs
- necessary for the operation of the server, like xterm, must also be obtained
- from the XFree86 package.
- You say that the mono server works. One reason the S3 server can crash
- is because of the monochrome data section in the Xconfig file. Eliminate this
- section from the file if that is causing the problem.
-
- Ari
-