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From: rimkus@netcom.com (Mike Rimkus)
Subject: [XFree86 386BSD] can't xinit (help!)
Message-ID: <1992Dec18.103352.20052@netcom.com>
Summary: X server dies swiftly, w/o message
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:33:52 GMT
Lines: 17
When I run xinit, as root, I get two lines of version info then:
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Configured drivers:
VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
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etc. The server doesn't give me a clue as to why it's failing. I'm fairly new
to X, so it may be something obvious.
The XFree86 docs make much fuss about getting proper Xconfig values, else
X won't work. I had placed a ModeDB line in Xconfig (Is there Xconfig
documentation, BTW?) that I got as output from "xclk -h 45 704". (My ATI Ultra
board has 45 & 33MHz crystals. My Gateway CrystalScan 1024NI accepts 48KHz
horzontal.) clock.exe from the Linux distribution didn't give me clock rates,
it just hung my machine. Do I need the clock.exe output to create some "Clocks"
line in the vga256 section of Xconfig?