From: mnrausch@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Martin Rausche) Subject: X, Speedstar, NEC II Problems. Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 12:32:31 GMT
Hi there!
I have really great problems with my equipment and X. Let me tell you, what
I've done.
I installed the interim version of 0.95c+ two weeks ago. This week I got
X and the 0.96 bootimage. Now I patched the bootimage at offset 508h to
boot from my harddisk. All things are all right, sometimes my computer
boots once again after printout of "8 virtual ...", but that's not the
problem. Now I want to startx :-)
First problem: No /dev/tty0, hmm, I said:
mknod /dev/tty0 c 4 0
and now it works.
But I cannot get some useful information on my screen. The monitor is
complete out of sync :-X I get a lot of chessboard-like patterns on my
screen and some shifted text. ARGH. OK, I thought, no problem. I
tried a few clock settings and monitor settings, but I cannot get it
to work. My monitor always shows rubbish.
A cannot type anything or move my mouse around, because the machine
freezes. Maybe a problem mith my logitech mouse, I will check this out,
but I want to see a xterm or something like that :-)
My equipment:
486/33 AMI Bios 5/5/91
Diamond Speedstar VGA (no +, no hicolor !!!)
NEC MultiSync II (not 2A or something like that)
Quantum LPS 240A
4MB (+8MB swap)
Soundblaster 1.0
Logitech Pilot Mouse
Please tell me, where I can get the program clock.exe (Does it help?) or
can someone tell me the right clock settings for my VGA Card? Can
someone mail me a copy of a working Xconfig file? I really need help,
because I don't want to shoot my monitor :-)
Please answer by mail, because our News expire system is very strict and
I cannot read new postings for the next 4 days.
Thanx. Martin.