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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6627 ; Mon, 11 Jan 93 16:37:34 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!uni-erlangen.de!cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!admerlev From: admerlev@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Arnd Merlevede) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Xserver dies after video switches. Help .. Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 04:18:07 GMT Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen Message-ID: <1j2phvEINNdko@uni-erlangen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: faui00j.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Lines: 54 Hi, * HELP * pleeeeez after trying to get XFree86 to work all night long, I didnt give up until 10 this morning. But now I dont know any further: This is what happens: When trying to start X with xinit, X386 obviously tries to set the graphics mode of my card (the multisync tries to catch it for a moment), but only for about .5 seconds, then quitting. Sometimes with "There is no defined dot/clock matching mode" sometimes without a clue, why it died at all. I am using the X kernel that came packaged. This is my configuration: ISA486-33 16MB , noname vga/16 et4000 card, scsi 1GB HD and 2GB DAT. On the videocard seems to sit an oscillator with 14.3C2X written on it. This is what I tried: I did everything mentioned in the READMEs. Inserted the path, changed Xconfig about 100 times (ModeDBs). I didnt bother with mouse settings yet, but that shouldnt be a reason for the server to die , should it ? The fontpath is corect. But no change if its not: Obviously the server doesnt get to the point where he requires for the fonts. I did all the kernel patches besides the one for init.c . I run the kernel setrootid. The exitcode, when run with gdb is 01. It seems that the mono server works for .3 seconds longer than the color, before being killed, resp. dieing. I even got : "Cannot find mouse" and "failed to init core devices" once, but still the video mode was only switched on for .5 seconds or so before it switched back. This is what I guess or not know: Do I have to make /dev/vt devices? What do I have to put in Xconfig for a serial mouse on com1 (without any com-kernel patches yet)? Are there other special permissions to be observed besides setrootid for the servers ? (I chown everything to bin, and opened it up for reading and execution) Do I have to setup something special for unix sockets ? Does the Xserver expect certain demons to be running ? ( I switched off some of the network stuff, for it is a single user machine) Well, here I am at the end with my latin (is this international?). Sigh. I would greatly appreciate any help, pointers, suggestions etc. Thanx for your efforts Arnd ps.Excuse horrible formatting, but the modem-connection wasnt without problems today