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- From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Problems starting X
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.055454.19092@diomedes.robots.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 05:54:54 GMT
- References: <zxmsu01.721583934@studserv>
- Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
- Lines: 36
- Originator: jon@diomedes.robots
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- In article <zxmsu01.721583934@studserv> zxmsu01@studserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Joost Schuur) writes:
- >Well.. I got myself the S3 chipset version of X386 1.1 from
- >ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk, and set up all the right dirs, however when I
- >run X, I seem to be getting just the default (at least I hope its
- >default) blue 'desktop' background. I'm running 800x600 mode and
- >do have both Xconfig and .xinitrc in my home dir and I did setup
- >the DISPLAY variable and paths et al.
-
- Never understood why anyone set their DISPLAY variable, harmless I guess...
- The "blue 'desktop' background" is infact what you get by resting the S3
- registers for graphics mode then returning to text mode, the S3 server has
- failed to start up, probably because your Xconfig is incorrect or you are
- trying to use compressed fonts. Start from the Xconfig on ftp.robots, and
- change the clocks line and modedb for your card and monitor.
-
- >Like I said, I get this nice
- >screen with no mouse and no further disk activity, except about 30
- >seconds later, my hard disk does get active one last time (paging?)
- >Nothing works, not even Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, and I have to perform
- >a hard reset. When I start Linux, by the way, my Genius serial mouse
- >at COM1 is not recognized. Should I use the Microsoft setting in the
- >mouse entry of Xconfig (they are supposed to be compatible)? I even
- >tried 'startx > err', but after a reboot, the err file is empty.
-
- Errors are printed to stderr (standard error, surprise!), with
- csh or bash you can save these with:
-
- startx >& err ;sync
-
- I've started an FAQ on ftp.robots, but the Xserver is still very alpha,
- unless you know something about X386 and are prepared to work at it, then
- stick with the mono XFree86 server until you see different advice. I'd
- hope to get the server integrated with XFree86 in the next couple of weeks
- this will make most these problems go away.
-
- Jon.
-