From: cac@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Cox) Subject: Odd problems: Random characters, wrong permissions, bad timings Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 03:16:10 GMT
Oh, woe is me. Here's a list. If anyone out there can drop me
a line that lets me solve any of these problems I'd very much appreciate
it:
1. I installed the second to latest version of SLS today. (I got it
just before the upgrade of a few days ago). It's using v .99pl4. In
any event, all went OK except that I am getting random characters and
such all the time. Running vi and then scrolling through a file (or
with more or just about anytime it scrolls) produces nonsense in many
cases, but a CTRL-L (redraw) clears it up.
I just put 99pl4 on a new (home-built) 386-33 with an ET4000 1Mb
card and an ESDI drive. The drive ran it fine in another machine
(before I put it in this one).
2. X is busted. Or so it seems. I am running on a Tseng ET4000 card
with 1Mb RAM and a Zenith ZDS-248m 1024x768 NI monitor. When I run
startx I get the following:
VGA256: ET4000 (mem 1024K numclocks: 16)
VGA256: clocks 25 28 40 45 50 57 39 47 62 70 81 90 100 112 79 94
It flashes the screen (trying to switch modes) and then comes up
with the following:
Fatal server error: There is no defined dot clock matching "1024x768"
giving up
Anyone know what I need to feed into Xconfig to make it happy.
This leads me to the next question....
3. How does one concoct those timing figures anyhow? Where do they
come from and what relationship do the vertical and horizontal timing
have with one another (i.e. something I can use to actually sit down and
figure out exactly what they should be)?
4. Nevermind the wrong permissions part in the subject. I figured it
out.
5. I seem to be missing a directory /proc. It has a bunch of stuff you
need to run things like 'w' and 'free.' Where did it go? I found
uptime in /bin (that was the first thing it croaked over when I typed
'w') but loadavg and other stuff seem to be not there anyplace.
Chris
-- ========== If you cut here you'd probably ruin your monitor ============= cac@iear.arts.rpi.edu Christopher A. Cox cac@itchy.geog.albany.edu I think, therefore cc8034@eve.albany.edu am confused.