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- From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [XFree86] Help needed badly
- Message-ID: <RICH.92Nov20095328@omicron.Rice.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:53:28 GMT
- References: <20NOV199220254593@v9001>
- Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
- Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu
- Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
- University
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- In-Reply-To: az7141633@v9001's message of Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:25:00 GMT
-
- In article <20NOV199220254593@v9001> az7141633@v9001 (AZ7141633) writes:
- I am facing the same problem as what both Thanh Luu and S.X. Xue faced; but I
- could not find any replies to their queries in comp.unix.bsd.
- I would appreciate if anyone could help us get started with XFree86 and 386BSD.
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Sok
- Internet addr: az7141633@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
- With Love from Nanyang Technological Univ of Singapore
-
-
- >X-NEWS: ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg comp.unix.bsd: 7901
- >From: tpl20@pswd.amdahl.com (Thanh Luu)
- >Subject: Problem starting up X
- >Date: 13 Nov 92 17:46:56 GMT
- >
- >I installed XFree86 and the kernel patch. When I tried to bring up X, using
- >xinit, I got the following message:
- >
- > 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 did I miss to do? Thanks in advance.
-
- First try redirecting the output to a file so that you get all the
- error messages:
- xinit >errs 2>&1
- if you are using sh, or
- xinit >&errs
- if you are using csh.
-
- Then start looking at your Xconfig file.
- From /usr/X386/lib/X11/etc/README.386BSD:
-
-
- ---------------- EDITING /usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig ----------------
-
- You must edit /usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig to suit your hardware. It
- tells the X server what kind of monitor and adapter are present. Read
- the X386 man page and /usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig.sample first.
-
- Once you understand the structure of Xconfig, try to find your
- specific monitor and vga card in /usr/X386/lib/X11/etc/modeDB.txt. If
- your Clocks and ModeDB lines are there, grab the values there and put
- them in your Xconfig. If modeDB.txt does not have your hardware, read
- /usr/X386/lib/X11/etc/XConfig.Notes for instructions on how to create
- the video timing values given your vga card and monitor specs. The
- manual for your monitor and adapter should have these values. To find
- your clocks, leave the Clocks line out of your Xconfig and run
- 'xinit >& xinit.out'. If X386 can find your clocks, it will print
- them out to xinit.out. Given your clock frequency and horizontal
- frequency of your monitor, the program xclk (on agate.berkeley.edu in
- /pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/XFree86) can calculate a ModeDB line for you.
-
- Unless you add more fonts, your Xconfig's FontPath line should be:
- FontPath "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
- If the FontPath includes non existant directories the server will exit
- without any error messages which would give a clue to the cause.
-
- Hope that helps! Rich
-