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- From: major@pacific.cps.msu.edu (Ronald Major)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Paradise VGA, SIGBUS and FD_SET
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.234209.29708@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 23:42:09 GMT
- Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
- Lines: 36
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- Hello everyone in Linux Land!
-
- I am a new Linux user for about a week now and I think
- it is really cool. I used the SLS package and all went smooth,
- after I spent a few hours figuring it out. I know very little
- about Unix system administration, but after playing around for
- a few days I learned alot :))
-
- First problem:
-
- What I am trying to do now is get X running. I went
- through the Xconfig tutorials ( several times ) trying to get
- the timing parameters set up in the ModeDB to no avail. I did
- get one graphics mode to work (816x632). But for that I copied
- one of the examples. I would like to get 1024x768 or higher
- working. I have seen alot of questions about this lately.
- Could any one help me? My card has a WD90C31 chip (or something
- like that) and the manual says that there are clocks of 65 and
- 75 Mhz among others. The max horizontal freq is 48.5 khz and the
- max vert. is 90 hz.
-
-
- Second problem:
-
- I tried to compile xloadimage which I just downloaded
- from export.lcs.mit.edu. Most of the compile went smoothly
- until...
- First, SIGBUS is not defines in signal.h. Does Linux
- support SIGBUS? I just commented out those lines and proceeded :-(
-
- Next, during linking, it gave an error that FD_SET
- and FD_ZERO were referenced from the text segment and gave up.
- I just read that a new version of libc.so.4.2 was available
- from tsx-11. Was this library the problem?
-
- Any answers would be appreciated ( except 42 which I already know :)
-