From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: X on a Gateway Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 15:16:31 GMT
Jonathan Swaby (JFS10@psuvm.psu.edu) wrote:
: I have a GateWay 486/33 with 4MB, a Micrsoft serial mouse on com1, A SpeedStar
: Vga card with 1MB, and a crystal scan 1024ni. I have been trying to get X to
: work with the default Xconfig, as is suggested in the Xconfig. I type in startx
: and after some drive activity the screen goes blank. I turn the monitor
: off and the back on and I have a screen with a Black and White pattern.
: After more disk activity the screen turns blue. This is the color the
: background is set to in one of the files. This is all I get. No mouse
: pointer, no Xclock, no Xterm. Can someone point me to documentation
: that will help me, or can someone with a similar machine help me out
Try something like X -probeonly :0
to check you have got all the right stuff set it Xconfig
Copy the clocks data it gives and put that in the Xconfig file.
Also make sure you have plenty of swap space (at least 8M, and on
a partition)