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From: kxr@netcom.com (Keith Rich)
Subject: X prob on min sys w/ FreeBSD 2.2-961014 XFree86 3.1.2
Message-ID: <kxrE07qJ2.38u@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 22:30:38 GMT
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Sender: kxr@netcom7.netcom.com
I think I understand what the following messages are trying to tell me,
but I'm less certain on what to do about it.
I can start X, but it won't stay working long enough to do anything
useful. I have reinstalled to see if that would help, but it didn't.
The problem seems to be that X trys to use SHM even after it notes
that it can't because it isn't there.
I have FreeBSD 2.2-961014 and XFree86 3.1.2 on a minimum computer.
I thought it might be that I really only have 64k of videoram rather
than the 256k that it seems to assume, but reconfiguring that didn't
help. So, I think the problem is more basic than that.
I realize that I could rebuild FreeBSD to include SHM, or I could
reconfigure XFree86 to not use SHM. However, I'd like to use the
default distributed binaries for a variety of reasons, and it seems
reasonable for that to work.
I also may have another problem which might or might not be related.
When I run tcl/tk, it doesn't seem to find the default fonts.
I've included below the kernel message that I get, the X log that
I get, and the tcl/tk log that I get.
Keith Rich (kxr@netcom.com)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
myname /kernel: cmd XF86_VGA16 pid 145 tried to use non-present SYSVSHM
------------------------------------------------------------------------
XFree86 Version 3.1.2 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6001)
Operating System: FreeBSD 2.2.0
Configured drivers:
VGA16: server for 4-bit colour VGA (Patchlevel 0):
et4000, et4000w32, et4000w32i, et4000w32p, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e,
vgawonder, tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga9000,
oti067, oti077, oti087, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, generic
MONO: server for interlaced and banked monochrome graphics adaptors
(Patchlevel 0):
hgc1280, sigmalview, apollo9, hercules
Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
(using VT number 4)
XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate: 1200
(**) VGA16: Graphics device ID: "Generic VGA"
(**) VGA16: Monitor ID: "Generic Monitor"
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
(**) VGA16: chipset: generic
(--) VGA16: videoram: 256k (using 256k)
(--) VGA16: clocks: 25.17 28.32 0.00 0.00
(--) VGA16: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90.000 MHz
(**) VGA16: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 25.175, clock used = 25.170
(**) VGA16: Virtual resolution set to 800x600
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
xterm: Error 50, errno 14: Bad address
xterm: Error 50, errno 14: Bad address
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
login: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
xinit: connection to X server lost.
waiting for X server to shut down .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
font "-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" doesn't exist
(default value for "font" in widget ".exit")
invoked from within
"button .exit -background skyblue1 -foreground black -activebackground red -activeforeground yellow -width 10 -relief ridge -bd 2 -text Exit -comma ..."
("eval" body line 1)
invoked from within
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