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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.chattanooga.net!tarush!tom From: tom@tarush.chattanooga.net (Tom Rush) Subject: Re: X11R6 and Hercules Mono X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Rush Co. Message-ID: <DHMHqI.7os@tarush.chattanooga.net> References: <47jhaa$ed5@darkstar.isi.edu> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 13:06:18 GMT Lines: 65 Benjamin Britt (britt@darkstar.isi.edu) wrote: : I'm trying to configure X11R6 to handle a Hercules mono board : but haven't had any luck. : The board is : HR = 18.1 kHz, VR = 50 Hz, and resolution of : 720x348. : If anyone has a copy of XF86Config which supports this : board, can you post it or give me a clue how to get it working? Here's mine, stripped to the bone for brevity. I found that dot clocks, etc. were not necessary for me, YMMV. Two points: 1. The syscons driver moves the hardware cursor off of the screen, the X hercules driver moves it back; so that when you switch back to a virtual console, the hardware cursor is blinking at you right in the middle of the screen. The only way to remove it is to reboot (or go back to X). I patched the X code to fix this and recompiled the server. (I'll post the patch if anyone's interested.) This was in 3.11, may be fixed in 3.12. 2. The mono server does not support a virtual screen. Get a different window manager than twm. I'm using fvwm from the ports collection, this gives you a lot more room to work in. -------- Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" EndSection Section "Keyboard" Protocol "Standard" ServerNumLock EndSection Section "Pointer" Protocol "MouseSystems" Device "/dev/ttyd0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Hercules" Chipset "hercules" EndSection Section "Screen" Driver "mono" Device "Hercules" Monitor "Generic Monitor" Subsection "Display" Modes "720x348" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection -- Tom Rush tom@tarush.chattanooga.net