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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: [386BSD] X386 reboots the system? Message-ID: <h24n#5=.hasty@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 92 21:42:48 GMT Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1992Sep19.165954.17800@fwi.uva.nl> Keywords: X386 Lines: 54 In article <1992Sep19.165954.17800@fwi.uva.nl> vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) writes: >After ftp-ing the 1.0.2a X386 from agate.berkeley.edu (/pub/incoming/X386), >I unpacked all the files as described, and started to install. The first >problem was: the x386install script as mentioned in the README.386BSD >file, was not present. So, did what the file was supposed to do by hand >(created /dev/vga, changed /etc/ttys, made links, etc). Currently, there is not installation scripts... Perhaps you or anyone can donate one. I am working day/night on the next server... > >I also applied the patches to init, and the kernel, and recompiled both. > >Here's the climax: when starting X (with 'startx'), the only thing I get >is the startup message of the server (the few textlines it prints). It does >not even go in to graphics mode, but simply reboots.. I fiddled around >in the Xconfig file, but even at the safest assumptions about my videocard's >capabilities (and my monitor's) still had the same result. It's not the >problem that people had with the fontfiles, I did remove the Speedo entry >(and would have got that error message anyway in that case). > >I also tried the GENERICISA kernel that comes with the X files, but the result >was the same. > >It's not even a panic.. it's just a reboot. I'm pretty sure my video card >is not at fault here (DV/X has been run on it, in 1024x1024 virtual screen >mode). > >Is this a known bug in this version, that will be fixed in the (official) >1.0.3, or..? This is not a known bug and you are the first one to report any serious problems with the latest X server. The only problem reported so far is that the et3000 driver does not restore properly text upon exiting xinit. What is your major and minor device numbers for /dev/vga and your mouse port? Also, I would like to know your svga's chipset manufacturer and model... Lastly, are you using a local bus svga card? Your local Xfree86 developer, Amancio Hasty > >Frank. >-- > Frank van der Linden. Internet : vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl >* WARNING ---- The author of this message has once seen some AT&T Unix source * >* code, so now this message is probably copyrighted by them! You have been * >* reading this entirely at your own risk.. *