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From: mishra@pxt.dsg.dec.com (Alok Mishra)
Subject: X11R5 ( XFree86 ) server not working correctly
Message-ID: <1992Oct31.164710@pxt.dsg.dec.com>
Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
Reply-To: mishra@pxt.dsg.dec.com (Alok Mishra)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 21:47:10 GMT
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I finally managed to get X11R5 compiled correctly,installed the server,
server comes up fine,mouse works fine ,but my server has lines and
unwanted dots upto middle of the screen ,bottom of the screen is fine,
characters are displayed in broken lines ,here is the out put of
X386/usr/X386/bin/X
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
ATI BIOS Information Block:
Signature code: 31 = VGA WONDER
Chip version: 3 = ATI 28800-2
BIOS version: 1.3
Byte at offset 0x42 = 0x11
Byte at offset 0x44 = 0x49
This video adapter is a: VGA WONDER PLUS (V6)
Amount of RAM on video adapter: 512k
VGA256: ati (mem: 512k numclocks: 12)
VGA256:
modeDB valuses are
"640x480" 31 640 664 704 832 480 489 492 520
"800x600" 44 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625
all clients work perfectly if I display them to other workstations.
Please help