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From: s569@mygg.ii.uib.no (Tom Skoglund)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Problem with X and S3
Date: 20 Jan 1996 03:33:15 GMT
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Lines: 62
Message-ID: <S569.96Jan20043316@mygg.ii.uib.no>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mygg.ii.uib.no
I am having som severe problems getting X to work now. I have a SPEA Mercury
P64 (S3) card with 2 megs VRAM. After lots of trying this is about the closest
I came to make it work. I had to set the clock chip manually, but...
--------- startx.log -------
XFree86 Version 3.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6000)
Operating System: NetBSD 1.0_BETA
Configured drivers:
S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0)
mmio_928, s3_generic
Using pccons driver with X support
XF86Config: /etc/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/com1, baudrate: 1200,
3 button emulation
(**) S3: Graphics device ID: "SPEA Mercury 64"
(**) S3: Monitor ID: "Cube"
Warning: The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
Warning: The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
Warning: The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
(--) S3: card type: PCI
(--) S3: chipset: 964 rev. 0
(--) S3: chipset driver: mmio_928
(--) S3: videoram: 2048k
(--) S3: Detected an AT&T 20C505 RAMDAC
(--) S3: Ramdac type: att20c505
(--) S3: Ramdac speed: 135
(**) S3: Using ICD2061A programmable clock
(--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 135.000 MHz
(**) S3: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 75.000
(--) S3: Operating RAMDAC in pixel multiplex mode
(--) S3: Using hardware cursor from Bt485/20C505 RAMDAC
(**) S3: Using 16 bpp. Color weight: 565
(**) S3: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768
(--) S3: Local bus LAW is 0xF3000000
(--) S3: Using a banksize of 2048k, line width of 1024
(--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area for expanding pixmaps
(--) S3: Using 16 planes of 960x256 at (0,768) aligned 8 as font cache
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
Fatal server error:
Cannot open mouse (No such file or directory)
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
--------
Anyone got any ideas ???
-Tom
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