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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!wupost!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!news.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds01!chmr From: chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) Subject: Re: XFree86 problems in 386BSD Message-ID: <1992Nov4.121509.23882@news.tu-graz.ac.at> Keywords: XFree86, 386BSD, binaries on agate Sender: news@news.tu-graz.ac.at (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: fstgds01 Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria References: <1992Nov3.144826@sees.bangor.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 12:15:09 GMT Lines: 32 In article <1992Nov3.144826@sees.bangor.ac.uk> tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk (Mr T Crummey (DIJ)) writes: >Hello, > >I obtained the XFree86 binary distribution from src.doc.ic.ac.uk which I believe >is a mirror of that on agate.berkeley.edu. When I try to run this on my >Elonex PC450 using the Trident 8900 chipset, I find that it only uses 640x480 >mode. I believe that this is due to the way in which the server has been >configured. It seems from running X386 -showconfig that the generic VGA driver >is configured BEFORE the ATI or Trident dirvers and so these are never used. >There is some support for this supposition in the readme file. > >I was wondering if the version on src.doc.ic.ac.uk / agate could be rebuilt >by some kind person so that the trident driver would be used. You can configure the server via a file (usually /usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig). You probably have only "640x480" on your Modes line. I am running this server quite happily on a T8900 (except for text scrolling, but this is not a fault of the server). >On a related note, I find that when I run X386 (in 640x480 mode) on exit, my >cursor no longer works. It just sulks in the bottom left corner all the time, >even when I am in vi. This makes editing rather difficult :-( Has anyone seen this >before? Yes. You are using the patches from an older X386 release. Use the patches from the patchkit instead. > >Tom. > Christoph -- ..signature: Permission denied