From: slh1y@cc.usu.edu (Jay Cliburn) Subject: X and Packard-Bell/Oak, anyone? Date: 16 Nov 1992 12:51:23 MDT
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Has anyone had success getting X to run on a Packard-Bell system?
Specifically, I have a PB 8528SV monitor and a vanilla Oak
OTI 067 chipset SVGA board running in a PB 386DX-33 with 4 meg
RAM. I have a 64 meg MS-DOS partition and a 64 meg Linux
partition loaded with the SLS Linux 0.98pl4 release
(a, b, c, & x disks from tsx-11.mit.edu).
I've read the readme's in /usr/X386/lib/X11 and I understand the
concepts, but I recently moved and cannot locate my monitor
spec sheet to get the sync rates. Additionally, my video board
document is virtually worthless -- providing no information
beyond the bare-bones setup stuff. The oscillator on the
board is stamped with the number 4.31818 -- I presume that is
the frequency of the board in MHz.
I tried both the 640 x 480 VGA mode and the mono mode, but I
was apparently doing something wrong, since I got either
distorted garbage or nothing on the screen when I ran startx.
The first message I get when X dies is:
"Creating TCP Socket: Invalid Argument"
Is this significant? Do I need to recompile the kernel to
include TCPIP? (Don't laugh... I've never done it :-)
I'd sure like to have some tutoring on this X thang. Any
and all help appreciated.