From: ewerlid@pinus.slu.se (Ove Ewerlid) Subject: CLOCK placement in Xconfig - READ THIS! (Was: Re: ADVICE NEEDED: ET4000 clock timings and Xfree) Date: 16 Oct 1992 03:03:38 GMT
During the last days several people have reported having problems with
the explicit CLOCK specification keyword in Xconfig. (In this newsgroup!)
Well, since no one else seems to answer this and I stumbled in it myself
I might as well try to shed some light on this issue.
1) Recognition of reserved words in Xconfig is case insensitive.
E.g. clock, Clock and CLOCK means the same thing.
2) Since Xconfig is used to configure two servers, the mono and colour server,
the CLOCK keyword must be put in the proper section.
(Each server may need it's own unique clocks.)
VGA256 starts the colour section
VGA2 starts the mono section
If CLOCK appears in a non server specific section it is rejected.
If CLOCK is put in the mono specific section the colour server will not
see it and thus ignore it until the end of time.
These comments apply to the latest Xfree86 server.
(Didn't check, but I don't think the 386 X server prior to this
supports more than the colour server. Hence the changes to CLOCK.)