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From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Xfree86 Install Problem
Message-ID: <1992Dec2.114923.21849@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 11:49:23 GMT
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In article <ByK7F9.8u9@ucunix.san.uc.edu> pmartin@eniac.san.uc.edu (Paul Martin) writes:
>
>I am using a 486-50 with a Diamond Speedstar 24X video card and have
>installed xfree86.  I get the following error when I try to start xinit.
>
>
>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
>VGA256: pvga1 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 8)
>VGA256:   clocks: 25 28 78  0 26 29  0  0
>
>Fatal server error:
>There is no defined dot-clock matching mode "1024x768"
>
>XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
>      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>      The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
>
>
>What I really think is odd here, is that the Speedstar uses an et4000
>chipset.  The server appears to think that the chipset it a pvga1 type which
>does not appear to allow 1024x768.  Any ideas or experience with the
>speedstar 24x?  Thanks in advance.

The speedstar 24 is et4000 based.  The 24X is based on a WD chipset (which
is derived from pvga1).

The error message indicates that there is no 1024x768 mode in your ModeDB
section of Xconfig that uses one of the detected clock values.  This is
not directly related to the pvga1 driver.

David
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