by Hi,
I have a Compaq Deskpro 386/25e with
a noname (it says Nytech) 14" color monitor
a noname VGA (not SVGA) card
Genius serial mouse (Model No GM-F303)
a 115MB AT-bus HD and
Linux 99pl8 (SLS 1.01)
The Problem:
Due to the noname graphic card I have no idea how to get XWindow to run.
When I do startx the screen blackens after a few seconds and there is a
lot of shuffling on the HD with pauses. And then nothing more happens.
If I move the mouse, again shuffling.
But the screen stays black Ctrl-Alt-Del, Alt-F1 -- F8 don't work
and after I do Ctrl-Alt-Backspace the machine is halted.
I tried it hours on end. Read what there was to read, but ... :-(
Is there anybody who dit get it to run with a normal VGA card?
I would be happy with the monochrome mode. :-)
Greetings, martin.
One World, One People Please.
Here is some output I captured with running 'nohup startx'
so the output was appendet to nohup.out...
Nohup was not the problem because just running 'startx' gave same results.
---------------try 1:--------------------
1 Setting TCP SO_LINGER: Protocol not available
2 no SIOCGIFCONF
3 XFree86 Version 1.2 / X Window System
4 (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
5 Configured drivers:
6 VGA2 (monochrome VGA):
7 et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, tvga8900c, tvga9000, tvga8900b,
8 generic
9 HGA2 (monochrome HGA):
10 hga6845
11 (using VT number 7)
12
13 Mouse: type: MouseSystems, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate: 1200
14 FontPath set to "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
15 VGA2: generic (mem: 64k (using 64k) numclocks: 4)
16 VGA2: clocks: 25.2 28.3 17.3 0.0
17 VGA2: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 25.0, clock used = 25.2
18 VGA2: Virtual resolution set to 800x600
19 VGA2: Using non-banked mono vga mode
20 XCsetroot, written by Thomas Wu and Davor Matic (c) 1990, MIT Fishbowl
21 XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
22 after 196 requests (196 known processed) with 10 events remaining.
23 The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
24
25 waiting for X server to shut down XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
26 after 50 requests (35 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
27 The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
28 XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
29 after 33 requests (31 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
30 The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
---
I numbered the lines and of the ohter outputs I only included the lines that
were different and the last line.
---------------try 2:--------------------
...
16 VGA2: clocks: 25.2 28.3 17.4 0.0
...
21 XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
22 after 196 requests (196 known processed) with 20 events remaining.
...
30 The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
---
Interstingly the clocks are different.
---------------try 3:--------------------
...
16 VGA2: clocks: 25.2 28.3 13.8 17.3
...
20 XCsetroot, written by Thomas Wu and Davor Matic (c) 1990, MIT Fishbowl
---
Here I tured the computer off without doing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
---------------try 4:--------------------
...
16 VGA2: clocks: 25.2 28.3 17.4 17.5
......
21 XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
22 after 2005 requests (2005 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
23 The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
24
25 waiting for X server to shut down xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
26 XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
27 after 55 requests (46 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
28 The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
---
Here I moved the mouse a bit and hit some buttons.
---------------try 7:--------------------
...
16 VGA2: clocks: 25.2 28.3 17.4 0.0
...
18 VGA2: Virtual resolution set to 640x480
...
22 waiting for X server to shut down xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
23 XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
24 after 33 requests (33 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
25 The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
---
Setting the Virtual resolution to 640x480 didn't help either.