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From: mishra@gull.dsg.dec.com (alok kumar mishra)
Subject: X11R5 ( Xfee86 ) server not working correctly
Message-ID: <1992Oct31.170205@gull.dsg.dec.com>
Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
Reply-To: mishra@gull.dsg.dec.com (alok kumar mishra)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 22:02:05 GMT
Lines: 32

        I finally managed to get X11R5 compiled correctly,installed the server,
        server comes up fine,mouse works fine ,but my server has lines and
        unwanted dots upto middle of the screen ,bottom of the screen is fine,
        characters are displayed in broken lines ,here is the out put of

X386/usr/X386/bin/X
XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
  VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
      et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
ATI BIOS Information Block:
     Signature code:                31 = VGA WONDER
   Chip version:                  3 =  ATI 28800-2
   BIOS version:                  1.3
   Byte at offset 0x42 =          0x11
   Byte at offset 0x44 =          0x49

  This video adapter is a:        VGA WONDER PLUS (V6)
  Amount of RAM on video adapter: 512k

VGA256: ati (mem: 512k numclocks: 12)
VGA256:

modeDB valuses are
 "640x480"     31      640  664  704  832    480  489  492  520
    "800x600"   44      800  824  896 1024    600  601  603  625

all clients work perfectly if I display them to other workstations.

                                                        Please help