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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!wupost!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE!picasso.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!gallersd From: gallersd@picasso.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Rainer Gallersdoerfer) Subject: X386 does not switch to graphics mode Message-ID: <1992Aug12.145408.10262@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Keywords: X386 Sender: news@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Newsfiles Owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: picasso Organization: University of Aachen, W-Germany Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 14:54:08 GMT Lines: 29 Hello I have problems running X386 - after starting via xinit it prints the banner and does not switch to graphics mode ! I did the following to set up my system: - extracted bindist, etcdist, and the X386-tar-file for 386bsd - used the patched generic kernel from the X386-tar-file - striped X386 - mknod /dev/vga c 12 0 - adapted Xconfig for my video-card and Monitor I've got an ET4000 card called 4MAX for which the utility dmode reports the same clock frequencys as mentioned for 2theMAX from modeDB.txt ! I know that the clock-speeds are generated using a special clock-chip and not due to lots of oscillators. I'm not sure whether the card is running in 16-bit or 8-bit mode :-( The Monitor is an Addonics-Model 7C5. For the beginning I only tried standard vga video timing at "640x480" assuming that these timings are correct. NOW THE QUESTIONS: What did I miss, what am I doing wrong ? RAINER