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From: ganter@carson.u.washington.edu (Mark Ganter)
Subject: Re: IAnyone seen this with XFree86 1.1 and 386bsd?
Message-ID: <1992Oct9.173412.9168@u.washington.edu>
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:34:12 GMT
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scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner) writes:

>Whan I type X or xinit the screen flips into graphics mode
>and shows me a bunch of un-inited stuff on the screen. Then
>the screen flips back to text mode and the server exits with
>no error message. (xinit says the pipe to the server was
>broken.)
Scott,  The MOST important hint I've seen in configuring X is
the following posted earlier (maybe 1 month ago).  Try this

xinit >& filename

This will write the X messages into the file "filename".  When
X is having trouble with clock speeds, etc it will write the
clocks speeds it likes for your card in this file.  Good Luck...Mark

Mark Ganter/Univ of Washington/Dept of Mech Engr/FU-10/Seattle, WA 98195 USA
ganter@u.washington.edu