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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:4279 comp.windows.x:44413 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: X386 under 386BSD does not work Message-ID: <xxdn+!g.hasty@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 17:55:57 GMT Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1992Aug27.200328.7037@cs.sfu.ca> Keywords: X386, 386BSD Lines: 79 In article <1992Aug27.200328.7037@cs.sfu.ca> liu@cs.sfu.ca (Lixin Liu) writes: >Hi, everyone: > >After a few days of trying, I can not get X386 working on my 486 machine. >Start with "xinit", I only got into graphics mode twice during the last a >few days and then the system hangs. But most of time, after the console >displays the following message: > >X386 1.2E 1.0.1 / X Window System >(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000) > >the system hangs without going into the graphics mode and dump a "core.X386". >So, what am I missing? > >Here is my configuration: > >Hardware: >GA-486US Local Bus motherboard, 64KB Cache, CPU: Intel 486-33 >8MB 60ns RAM >Quantam LPS240AT IDE Drive, 30MB for DOS >GA-200 Local Bus VGA card with 1MB memory (ET4000 based) >NEC 5FG monitor >Legend mouse in com1 > >Kernal: 0.1.26 (Comes with X386 binary) > >Xconfig file: > >RGBPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb" >FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" > >Keyboard > AutoRepeat 500 5 > ServerNumLock > >Mousesystems "/dev/com1" > BaudRate 1200 > >vga256 > Chipset "et4000" > Vendor "legend" > Clocks 50 57 65 72 80 90 101 127 > Virtual 1152 900 > ViewPort 0 0 > Modes "1024x768" "640x480" > >ModeDB ># clock horzontal timing vertical timing > "640x480" 50 640 672 768 850 480 550 650 650 > "1024x768" 72 1024 1032 1264 1272 768 786 791 810 > "1152x900" 80 1152 1160 1376 1416 900 900 940 948 > "1152x900" 80 1152 1184 1264 1408 900 905 908 936 > 80 1152 1164 1244 1408 900 900 903 936 > > >Thanks for your help! > >Lixin >-- > mail: Lixin Liu, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, > Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., CANADA V5A 1S6 > e-mail: liu@cs.sfu.ca OR liu@sfu.ca > phone: (604) 291-3422 (office), (604) 294-6582 (home) Normally, X386 generates a stack trace dump when the kernel is not patched for X... I know that you stated that you have the patched kernel. Also, you are the first person reporting attempting to use X in a local bus and they may be a difference on a local bus implementation for the et4000. Could you send a stack trace dump? Amancio Hasty p.s. (I helped port X386 to 386bsd)