From: cd2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Court Demas) Subject: X Problems - Help! Date: 14 May 1992 03:12:53 GMT
I've spent a lot of time in the past few days trying to get X to run on
my 486. At this point, after trying out 25-30 different Xconfig files,
computing all the clock frequencies, etc, etc, etc, that this may not be
a problem with the clocks or h/v frequencies or anything.
The best I could do at this point is bring up a 640x480 image which is
still on the screen. It's basically white vertical bars across the
screen, but at the top there's some garbage which looks like it could be
mangled (shifted) text. The image is steady and it looks like the mode
is set correctly - except that there's no cursor and no windows, etc.
What could be wrong? Playing around with the frequencies is NOT going
to change this. The picture is displayed squarely in the center of the
screen, just as a normal VGA picture should be. Could there be a
problem with the X server? With sockets? Something??!?
If there's absolutely anything else that could possibly cause this I'd
like to hear about it. I'm really anxious to get X up and running..
thanks!
-court
btw, I have a 486/33, 8mb, Tseng-4000 hicolor w/1mb (tried with
"hiclock" and without), Samsung multisync.