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Subject: Problem starting X on 386bsd
Message-ID: <1993Apr13.065250.6196@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
From: wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 06:52:50 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
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Hi,
I just installed the XFree86-1.2 on my 386bsd. All the configuration
are set up according to the docs. However, when I started up xinit,
here is what I get :
XFree86 Version 1.2 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900c, tvga9000
Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/com2, baudrate: 9600,
3 button emulation
FontPath set to "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 3)
VGA256: clocks: 75.5 50.3 25.2
VGA256: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 75.5, clock used = 75.5
VGA256: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 50.3, clock used = 50.3
VGA256: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 25.2, clock used = 25.2
VGA256: Virtual resolution set to 1024x1024
VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0x3f)
xinit: Resource temporarily unavailable (errno 35): unexpected signal 3
waiting for X server to shut down ..........
xinit: X server slow to shut down, sending KILL signal.
waiting for server to die ...
xinit: Interrupted system call (errno 4): Can't kill server
So, I thought the problem might be the missing .Xresources and .xinitrc,
and I copy them from the Sun with some small changes and put them in my home
dir. However, that doesn't do me any good either.
The following are the my video system config:
GDE4000VL VESA Local Bus (Tseng Lab) ET4000 , VGA/IDE PLUS multi I/O card.
I first experimented with the dot clock as reported by X, and changd them in
Xconfig file, ie 75.7Hz (1024x768 N/I), 50.3 (800x600), 25.2 (640x480).
the result being that, the screen is blanked out, and just hangs there. It
doesn't respond to CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, even I comment out DontZap in Xconfig.
I wonder if anyone can shed some light on this ? And, email replies
are mostly welcomed. Many thanks in advance !
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- wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au