From: younus@iona.uk.sun.com (Younus Nabi - Sandwiche Student - Tse Edinburgh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X and Trident
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Date: 12 Nov 92 10:09:14 GMT
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Gurus.
I issued a plea a few days ago about getting X running on a Trident 8900 card. Many kind people replied and I followed their advice but I am still unable to get it to run. The following is a transcript of the attempt to run X via startx.
Can anyone spot anything obvious which may point to the fact that I have not configured it correctly? I am hoping that it is I at fault rather than the card not being able to cope. :-(
On boot up the video card professes to be a Trident 8900C, is the message below about the chipset version significant? I get about half a dozen mode options when Linux first boots.
******************************** begin startx output ************************************************
Creating TCP socket: Invalid argument
XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
Trident chipset version: 0x03
Trident driver only supports TVGA8900C
*** None of the configured devices was detected.***
Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit: Invalid argument (errno 22): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
********************************** end startx output ************************************************
If the Trident is not going to do the job in colour can it do it in mono?
I also have an Orchid Farenhite 1280 direct bus video card with 1Mb ram, is there any hope of useing this. (Please say yes someone!)
If neither of these work then I will just have to wait for X. :-((
