From: ros@rossi.han.de (Alexander Rossner) Subject: Re: Xconfig Blues for ATI ULTRA pro card Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1993 23:44:22 MET
In <1993Mar7.224737.6899@INRS-Telecom.UQuebec.CA>, Elie Fakhouri writes:
>I tried changing the VGA memory size to 1MB and to 512 K but Xlinux.8514 didn't
>recognise the correct memory in coth cases. ( only 512 K so the proghra stopped
>there )
>
I think the vga size should be set to 256 or 512k and (my experience) never
to shared. I got horizontel lines with 'shared memory' running X
and (!) msdos windows. I found a bug description in the
readme file (windows), which descripes this fault.
>So far I have only vertical blue lines on the screen when I run startx.
>ctrl-alt-backspace wouldn't exit the X-Windows program so I have to reboot at
>that stage
I got the same behaviour when I run startx the first time :-). Now everything
works fine (1024x768x8/72Hz ni :-). I use XFree1.2 and copied only Xlinus.8514
in X386/bin and made the link 'ln -s Xlinus.8514 X'.
My configuration:
I copied Xconfig.8514 to $(HOME)/Xconfig.
Edits in the 'mouse line' (I have a 3 button mouse on ttyS0)
-> MouseSystems "/dev/ttyS0"
^ (a 'S' not 's' in SLS .99.4 !)
-> in the ModeDB line I only edited the "1024x768" line.
Read the readme
files in Xserver8514, only 640x480 and 1024x768 will work, otherwise
the server breaks with a 'bad resolution' (?) fault.
I only replaced the line "1024x768" line with the "1024x768" of the NEC 5FG
entry from modeDB.txt (..X386/lib/X11/etc/modDB.txt). My monitor has the same
technical data's. There is another line for your NEC 4FG. Try it.
But, I have another problem, I can't run startx as non-root, the 8514 server
reports allways 'cannot obtain required I/O privileg level' and breaks.
what does this meen ?!? I checked all permissions (libraries,..), but
nothing helps :-(
alex
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