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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!mukluk!bryan From: bryan@momth3.maths.monash.edu.au (Bryan Seng Hpa) Subject: HELP! HELP! X386 has got my baby ! Message-ID: <1992Aug26.050249.16349@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system) Organization: Monash University Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 05:02:49 GMT Lines: 109 I'm serious guys Can anyone out there please help me ? I am trying to get X386 to work with 386bsd My hardware is: 386/SX 25Mhz 4Mb RAM 85 Mb Hard Disk ( + lots more via NFS) Tseng Labs Mega Eva/2 video card X386 doesn't seem to switch the video card into graphics mode - it just hangs. Can someone suggest what I should put in my Xconfig file or know the fix to this problem ? Running xdm in debug mode gives the following errors in the xdm-errors file: . . all going smoothly till now ... . . WaitForSomething DisplayManager._0.systemShell/DisplayManager._0.Shell value /bin/sh DisplayManager._0.failsafeClient/DisplayManager._0.FailsafeClient value /usr/X386/bin/xterm DisplayManager._0.userAuthDir/DisplayManager._0.UserAuthDir value /tmp DisplayManager._0.chooser/DisplayManager._0.Chooser value /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm/chooser Before XOpenDisplay(:0) select returns -1. Rescan: 0 ChildReady: 1 signals blocked, mask was 0x0 Manager wait returns pid: 161 sig 0 core 0 code 4 Display exited with OPENFAILED_DISPLAY, try 0 of 4 <---------- ENTERING BARF MODE !!!! Manager wait returns pid: 160 sig 10 core 0 code 0 Phoenix server arises, restarting display :0 StartDisplay :0 DisplayManager._0.serverAttempts/DisplayManager._0.ServerAttempts value 1 DisplayManager._0.openDelay/DisplayManager._0.OpenDelay value 15 DisplayManager._0.openRepeat/DisplayManager._0.OpenRepeat value 5 DisplayManager._0.openTimeout/DisplayManager._0.OpenTimeout value 30 DisplayManager._0.startAttempts/DisplayManager._0.StartAttempts value 4 DisplayManager._0.pingInterval/DisplayManager._0.PingInterval value 5 DisplayManager._0.pingTimeout/DisplayManager._0.PingTimeout value 5 DisplayManager._0.terminateServer/DisplayManager._0.TerminateServer value false DisplayManager._0.grabServer/DisplayManager._0.GrabServer value false DisplayManager._0.grabTimeout/DisplayManager._0.GrabTimeout value 3 DisplayManager._0.resetSignal/DisplayManager._0.Signal value 1 DisplayManager._0.termSignal/DisplayManager._0.Signal value 15 DisplayManager._0.resetForAuth/DisplayManager._0.ResetForAuth value false DisplayManager._0.authorize/DisplayManager._0.Authorize value false DisplayManager._0.authComplain/DisplayManager._0.AuthComplain value false DisplayManager._0.authName/DisplayManager._0.AuthName value MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 DisplayManager._0.authFile/DisplayManager._0.AuthFile value StartServer for :0 '/usr/bin/X11/X' Server Started 162 display manager paused til SIGUSR1 DisplayManager._0.resources/DisplayManager._0.Resources value /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources DisplayManager._0.xrdb/DisplayManager._0.Xrdb value /usr/X386/bin/xrdb DisplayManager._0.setup/DisplayManager._0.Setup value /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 DisplayManager._0.startup/DisplayManager._0.Startup value /usr/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole DisplayManager._0.reset/DisplayManager._0.Reset value /usr/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole DisplayManager._0.session/DisplayManager._0.Session value /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession DisplayManager._0.userPath/DisplayManager._0.Path value :/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X386/bin:/usr/ucb DisplayManager._0.systemPath/DisplayManager._0.Path value /etc:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X386/bin:/usr/ucb DisplayManager._0.systemShell/DisplayManager._0.Shell value /bin/sh DisplayManager._0.failsafeClient/DisplayManager._0.FailsafeClient value /usr/X386/bin/xterm DisplayManager._0.userAuthDir/DisplayManager._0.UserAuthDir value /tmp DisplayManager._0.chooser/DisplayManager._0.Chooser value /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm/chooser Before XOpenDisplay(:0) pid: 163 WaitForSomething select returns -1. Rescan: 0 ChildReady: 1 signals blocked, mask was 0x0 Manager wait returns pid: 163 sig 0 core 0 code 4 Display exited with OPENFAILED_DISPLAY, try 1 of 4 . . . keeps re-trying then gives up ... . . . select returns -1. Rescan: 0 ChildReady: 1 signals blocked, mask was 0x0 Manager wait returns pid: 167 sig 0 core 0 code 4 Display exited with OPENFAILED_DISPLAY, try 3 of 4 Manager wait returns pid: 166 sig 10 core 0 code 0 Zombie server reaped, removing display :0 WaitForSomething Shutting down entire manager select returns -1. Rescan: 0 ChildReady: 0 Nothing left to do, exiting Thanks in advance for any assistance. Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryan Seng Hpa email: bryan@mobius.maths.monash.edu.au Computer Systems Officer voice: +61 3 565 4427 Mathematics Dept, Monash University fax: +61 3 565 4403 Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keywords: