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From: jimj@miller.cs.uwm.edu (James Jegers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: New XFree86 starting problems
Date: 12 Oct 1992 18:03:41 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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References: <Bvunnr.5H8@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
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In article <Bvunnr.5H8@cosy.sbg.ac.at>, peter@wiesel.cosy.sbg.ac.at (Peter Burgstaller) writes:
|> Hi again!
|>
|> First, THANKS to all who mailed and newsed!
|> Now I'm a little bit closer to the solution!
|>
|> Second: path settings are O.K
|>
|> Here is the result of xdm -nodaemon:
|>
|> error (pid 88): Can't create/lock pid file /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-pid
]
Don't ask me why.. But I changed the permissions on the file to
chmod 666 xdm-pid and now it works...
|>
|> But this file exists and has rw permissions for root.
|> If I delete this file the same thing happens.
|>
|> Here is the result of xinit >>& xinit.log
|>
|> XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
|> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
|> Configured drivers:
|> VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
|> et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
|> VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 16)
|> VGA256: clocks: 25 28 33 37 41 45 57 65 13 15 17 18 20 23 0 0
|> VGA256: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024
|> VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0xf)
|> failed to set default font path
|> '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/'
|> Fatal server error:
|> could not open default font 'fixed'
|> XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
|> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
|> The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or
|> KillClient.
|>
|> After that I looked into the fonts directories and found all fonts
|> compressed, so I thought maybe I should uncompress them, but this
|> ends in the same result!
|>
|> You can see that the clocks aren't 36, 40 or 50 so I changed a little
|> the values of the 800x600 mode (thats the standard mode for this card)
|> to
|>
|> "800x600" 40 800 841 968 1056 600 601 605 628
|>
|> the screen flips to grafix-mode but apparently with wrong timings
|>
|> Hey dudes help me to make it through!
|>
|> - Peter 8*(
|> --
|> /-------------------------------------------------------------------\
|> | Peter Burgstaller| Student of Computerscience |
|> | (peter@cosy.sbg.ac.at)| in Salzburg, Austria (Europe) |
|> | "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" (Douglas Adams) |
|> \-------------------------------------------------------------------/
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