From: longshot@att2.cs.mankato.msus.edu (Erik Green) Subject: Help for X11 Date: 1 Jun 1992 10:14:37 GMT
Well, I thought I'd post again and see if I could help out a few people. I've
managed to get X(0.01 and 1.0) up and running on 3 different systems with
different hardware, and I thought I'd share a few of the things I found
that helped me.
First, for those of you having problems with multiple images, try cutting
the numbers clock.exe gives you in half(Except the first one, I think). This
helps on some machines.
Second, if you're having problems with the display being shifted in one
direction, be it up, down, left or right, and there's a brightly colored
band on the edge the image is shifted towards,(boy, this sentence has a
lot of commas) you may be having a problem with your monitor rather than
the clock settings for your card. Some monitors, like the nec 3d, are
fairly smart and are capable of accurately syncing to any frequency in
their range, but most of the ones I've run across have to be manually
adjusted to correctly position the image in the higher resolution modes.
If the bright line is on the left or right side of the screen, adjust the
horizontal position. Top or bottom, adjust the vertical position. All
the way around, change the H-size and V-size. Some monitors let you do this
from the front, some make you use a screwdriver or special tool from the
back. If you have to use a tool, make sure it's insulated.
Third, if you get a segmentation fault while trying to run X, your problem
may be that you have the wrong shared libraries. X will tell you if it
can't find the libraries it needs, but it won't tell you if they're the
wrong ones(all it looks for is a filename).
Fourth, if you tried X before getting the newest kernel and decided it was
too slow, try it again. The read-ahead routines combined with the new
version of X have speeded things up so much that I'm almost ready to use
it all the time on my 4 MB machine(I usually run in text mode).
On an un-X related note, I may try to get some sound capabilities for Linux
working in the next few weeks. There is a player program for Amiga .MOD
files that was created by one Mark J. Cox over in the U.K. that comes with
a good circuit for a Stereo DAC that hangs off of the parallel port,
and reportedly gives very good sound. <- run-on sentence
It uses a total of 9 parts plus some cabling, and should cost anyone
less than $15.00 US to build. A nice plus is that it doesn't require
kernel support - the built-in lp drivers should work. Anyone besides
me who wants to try building one can mail me for the US equivalent chip
numbers and a mail-order source(The original circuit has chips only
available from UK manufacturers).
-Erik the Green