Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!caen!batcomputer!cornell!cchase From: cchase@cs.cornell.edu (Craig Chase) Subject: XS3 with Actix GE Ultra Plus Message-ID: <1993Sep30.150205.9060@cs.cornell.edu> Summary: Need help making it go Organization: Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 15:02:05 GMT Lines: 99 Hi y'all. Based on the stellar performance numbers for the Actix S3-928 boards posted here, I took the plunge and bought a Graphics Engine Ultra Plus with 2Meg of VRAM. It's sitting quietly in my 486/DX-33, and does a fine job in text mode with my NEC 4DS. Text mode gets a little tiresome after a while, and I would really like to run X, but every time I start up X with the XS3.mmio from sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:pub/386bsd/incoming I just get a blank screen. The video mode is switched, I see the multisync flicker a little bit (for half a second) and then this beautifully simple, solid black-on-black screen comes up. ctrl-alt-bckspace gets me out of X and back into text mode, but nothing I've tried can get anything other than a completely black screen out of X. I've tried the VESA standard modes for 1024x768 at 75MHz and 65Mhz (non-interlaced). I've tried this with clock values of "75" "65" "0xd", "0xe" "d" "e". I've also tried the 1024x768 interlaced with clock values 44, and 7. I picked these numbers based on the readme files for XS3-0.3 and XS3.mmio which appear to suggest different encodings for the clocks. Has anyone gotten this board to fly (with NetBSD, FreeBSD, or anything else)? Thanks, Craig P.S. here's the last Xconfig file I used, if that means anything to anyone... this one uses clock "7" for the 1024x768 interlaced, I also tried using "44" instead of 7 (on both the modeDB entry and the clocks line) and had the same behavior. # $Header: /home/x_cvs/mit/server/ddx/x386/Xconfig,v 1.14 1992/09/12 07:03:09 dawes Exp $ # $XConsortium: Xconfig,v 1.2 91/08/26 14:34:55 gildea Exp $ # # Copyright 1990,91 by Thomas Roell, Dinkelscherben, Germany. # # Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its # documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that # the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that # copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting # documentation, and that the name of Thomas Roell not be used in # advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without # specific, written prior permission. Thomas Roell makes no representations # about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided # "as is" without express or implied warranty. # # THOMAS ROELL DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, # INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO # EVENT SHALL THOMAS ROELL BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR # CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, # DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER # TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR # PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. # # Author: Thomas Roell, roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de # # some nice paths, to avoid conflicts with other X-servers # RGBPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" # Use this if the Type1 font code is in the server #FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" # NoTrapSignals #Xqueue Keyboard #AutoRepeat 1 10 # Xleds 1 2 3 ServerNumLock # DontZap microsoft "/dev/tty02" BaudRate 9600 SampleRate 150 # Emulate3Buttons # # The graphics drivers # First the colour driver vga256 clocks 7 Modes "1024x768i" ModeDB "1024x768i" 7 1024 1040 1216 1264 768 777 785 817 Interlace -- "They [La Prensa] accused us of suppressing freedom of expression. This was a lie and we could not let them publish it." - Nelba Blandon, Interior Ministry Director of Censorship, quoted in