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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!psinntp!fstalb!mooreb From: mooreb@fac.com (Brian Moore) Subject: [386BSD] X386 and my busmouse, clock question Organization: First Albany Corp. Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1992 12:06:06 GMT Message-ID: <1992Sep20.120606.9315@fac.com> Keywords: 386bsd x386 busmouse clock.exe Lines: 28 I've recently gotten 386bsd up and running, so now I'm working on X386. I ftp'd the version in /pub/incoming/X386 from agate, so I have the most recent copy. Unfortunately, I can't get it to work with my bus mouse. The X386 server can use a busmouse, but it has to have a /dev device to use, and I can't find anything reasonable. I didn't see any bus mouse driver in /sys/i386/isa where I would expect it, so I can only assume it hasn't been written. Anyone working on one? Also, I had a bit of trouble getting the clock info on my SVGA card. It took me a while to find out I could only get the timings by starting X from xdm (xdm-errors), I thought xinit from startx would show the timings but I never saw them. I decided to grab clock.exe, which took me a while to find. Using Archie, I found it on ftp.uni-kl.de in /pub2/packages/linux/mirrors/X11/Incoming/clock.exe.Z (binary only) in case anyone else is looking for it. It showed me the following clock values for my Infiniti ET4000 based card: 25.2 28.2 32.5 36.0 39.9 44.6 46.7 and 46.8. Sometimes the last 3 were .1 higher. xdm-errors usually showed me 25 28 33 36 40 45 47, but quite often it would show 37 and 41 instead of 36 and 40. If 37 was listed, the server would die because it couldn't find my single Mode entry (written for 36 MHz). Of course xdm would restart it several times, and it would get a 36 eventually. Still, I'd rather avoid this. Can anyone shed some light on the changing clock values? -- Brian Moore, mooreb@fac.com | "Buddha once sat before a wall, and when he Unix System Administrator | arose he was enlightened." / "You compare First Albany Corporation | yourself to Buddha?" / "No, only to the wall." standard disclaimers apply | - Circle of Iron