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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: XFree86 gives me a blank screen ! Message-ID: <1992Oct1.064918.1102@netcom.com> Keywords: X Xfree86 install Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <BvEp22.24@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:49:18 GMT Lines: 49 In article <BvEp22.24@news.cso.uiuc.edu> venkat@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Venkat Swaminathan) writes: >Hi folks, > >I downloaded the XFree86 binaries from agate:/pub/incoming/X386 and have been >[unsuccessfully] trying to install XFree86. After I type 'sh startx' or >'xinit' there is a 3-4 second pause and then the message "Waiting for X >server to begin accepting connections" followed by a number of periods - two >to a line. After a minute or two the screen just blanks and nothing short of a >reboot will get the screen back. The keyboard is apparently working because >of the disk activity pattern when I type a command etc. I have spent hours >on trying out different values in the Xconfig file to no avail. I am using the >kernel binary from agate:/pub/incoming/X386/386bsd.kernel... whatever. > >DETAILS: > 386/25 MHz machine with 4MB RAM/125MB HD; Diamond Speedstar VGA video > card with 1MB video RAM; MAG PMV 1448 monitor; Microsoft compatible > mouse on com1. > >Any help will be appreciated either by email or USENET. Thanks ! > >Venkat > Preferably, from a terminal other than the console, try the following in the directory where you have your X386 server: csh ../X386 >& foo if your screen does not come back, type sync a couple of times and reboot. Look at thfile foo. also please check for a core dump. last but not least your card may not be supported. It may be one of those sparkling new models out of Diamond with a clock synthetizer. If it does have a clock synthetizer, I suggest that you take it back, because we can't program Diamond's propieratory clock synthetizer. God I hate answering questions concerning Diamond equipment. To make matters worse I have a Diamond SpeedStar which I tried to dump but I can't. Cheers, Amancio