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From: olson@cs.odu.edu (Jaguar <Michael Olson>)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: X won't work
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 14:38:17 -0400
Organization: Jaguar.Com
Lines: 130
Message-ID: <PyMBkiCqLiIQ068yn@cs.odu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: snapdragon.cs.odu.edu
Keywords: Xfree86
Originator: olson@snapdragon.cs.odu.edu
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I am a Unix newbie and I just got FreeBSD 1.1 installed not long ago.
My problem is I can't seem to get X up and running I always get a
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XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processes) with 0 events remaining.
The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
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This is my Xconfig (in /usr/X386/lib/X11)
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# **********************************************************************
# Generic parameters section
# **********************************************************************
# some nice paths, to avoid conflicts with other X-servers
RGBPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/rgb"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
# Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is
# received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may
# provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging
# NoTrapSignals
# **********************************************************************
# Input devices
# **********************************************************************
# Keyboard and various keyboard-related parameters
#
Keyboard
AutoRepeat 500 5
ServerNumLock
# Xleds 1 2 3
# DontZap
# To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift,
# RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock:
# LeftAlt Meta
# RightAlt ModeShift
# RightCtl Compose
# ScrollLock ModeLock
#
# Mouse definition and related parameters
#
mousesystems "/dev/sio0"
# BaudRate 9600
# **********************************************************************
# Graphics drivers
# **********************************************************************
#
# The 8-bit colour SVGA driver
#
VGA256
chipset "clgd5422"
Option "noaccel"
videoram 1024
clocks 25.23 28.32 41.16 36.08 31.50 39.99 45.08 49.87 64.98 72.16 75.00 80.01
#Option "probe_clocks"
NoSpeedUp
Virtual 1152 900
ViewPort 0 0
Modes "640x480" "1024x768"
# **********************************************************************
# Database of video modes
# **********************************************************************
ModeDB
# name clock horizontal timing vertical timing flags
"640x480" 25.175 640 672 768 800 480 490 492 525
"1024x768" 64.98 1024 1116 1228 1328 768 783 789 818
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Relevent system information
80486DX/50Mhz
256K cache
8 Meg RAM (20 Meg Swap Partition)
Cirrus Logic GD5422 1Meg Video Card (Cheetah 2theMax)
Mag DX17F Monitor
Mouse Systems 3-button White Mouse
Please Help Me.
Thank You,
Michael Olson
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