Very Computer

Whenever I try to run ConfigXF86, it gets all the way to the part
where it's supposed to start the X server and let me test my video
modes.  At that point the screen clears and it says: "./ConfigXF86:
/tmp/2498.tgs: No such file or directory"

Then the screen clears immediately again and it says:
"These are your available modes
cat:  /tmp/1721.tmnu:  no such file or directory
Enter the number of the resolution mode to fiddle with"

With no numbers/modes listed, the only thing I can do is Ctrl-C
interrupt.  If I go ahead and save the bogus XF86Config file anyway
and startx, it either gives an error about every video mode
being invalid and dies, or else complains that the "rgb" path line or
the "fonts" path line is not a section head and dies.

I have XF86_{8514, mono, SVGA, VGA16, W32} servers installed, with the
"X" file currently linked to XF86_VGA16.

My /tmp directory has permissions drwxrwxrwx and there are other
ConfigXF86 files in it, so the permisisons should not be a problem.

I don't have the manuals for my video card or monitor, so I don't know
the frequencies necessary to construct my own video modes that startx
will accept.

I did get X to work on this c6omputer a year or more ago and didn't have
this problem them.  But that installation (an SLS) has long since been erased.

If anyone has an MGC monitor that X works on, or has any other ideas,
please email me.

PS.  My computer is a 486/66 VLB, 16MB RAM, 200 + 250 MB IDE HDs,
soundblaster, Aztech CDA 269 01A CD-Rom (I haven't even tried to
configure the CD yet -- that's for another day).
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MikeB

: I feel with you, dude.  I went through the same nightmare just days
: ago.  The problem is that ConfigXF86 for 3.1.1 is broken.  You'll
: have to stick it out manually.  Good luck!

: MikeB

Come on is there not an easier war to get around this .. I am having the
EXACT same problems as the previous person .. Is the only way to get
around this to use makecard?? I don't understand why .. Cirrus is in
there .. Why can't it work?

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Quote:>: I feel with you, dude.  I went through the same nightmare just days
>: ago.  The problem is that ConfigXF86 for 3.1.1 is broken.  You'll
>: have to stick it out manually.  Good luck!

>: MikeB

>Come on is there not an easier war to get around this .. I am having the
>EXACT same problems as the previous person .. Is the only way to get
>around this to use makecard?? I don't understand why .. Cirrus is in
>there .. Why can't it work?

Good luck!

MikeB

: >: I feel with you, dude.  I went through the same nightmare just days
: >: ago.  The problem is that ConfigXF86 for 3.1.1 is broken.  You'll
: >: have to stick it out manually.  Good luck!
: >
: >: MikeB
: >
: >Come on is there not an easier war to get around this .. I am having the
: >EXACT same problems as the previous person .. Is the only way to get
: >around this to use makecard?? I don't understand why .. Cirrus is in
: >there .. Why can't it work?

: Who said anything about using makecard.  I said "manually", meaning that
: you edit your XF86Config file yourself.  If there is another way, noone
: has informed me about it.

: Good luck!

: MikeB

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I got the same problem.  Look more carefully at your error message.

Before it say can't find this or that directory, I'll be you have
a message saying expecting keyword or something, righ?

This is a xinit parsing problem, I think.  No solutions yet,
but I'm working on it.

-Dave

Quote:> : I feel with you, dude.  I went through the same nightmare just days
> : ago.  The problem is that ConfigXF86 for 3.1.1 is broken.  You'll
> : have to stick it out manually.  Good luck!
> : MikeB
> Come on is there not an easier war to get around this .. I am having the
> EXACT same problems as the previous person .. Is the only way to get
> around this to use makecard?? I don't understand why .. Cirrus is in
> there .. Why can't it work?

for XFree86 3.x you should use "xf86config" (a binary, btw) to build
a config file!

Harald
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Quote:> I feel with you, dude.  I went through the same nightmare just days
> ago.  The problem is that ConfigXF86 for 3.1.1 is broken.  You'll
> have to stick it out manually.  Good luck!

since 3.1 was released the config toll is called `xf86config' !
there is a new, more fancy version in XFree86 3.1.1.
get it, run it, enjoy it!

Harald
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