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- From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Help Needed for Linux.
- Message-ID: <BzMnw8.49H@ichaos.nullnet.fi>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:04:55 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.063353.6903@sfu.ca>
- Organization: NullNet r.y.
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Dec21.063353.6903@sfu.ca> wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) writes:
- > 8) I can't seem to get the X11 to work. When I do a 'startx'
- > command, the following screen appears:-
- >
- > Creating TCP socket: Invalid argument
- > XFree86 Version 1.0Ya / X Window System
- > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
- > Configured drivers:
- > VGA256 (256 colour SVGA);
- > et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
- ! VGA256: et4000 (mem: 0k numclocks: 16)
- ! VGA256: clocks: 25 28 36 27 30 33 20 24 50 57 72 45 60 65 40 47
- ! VGA256: Too little memory for virtual resolution
- >
- > I have a Trident 8900 card(?), with 512k, a CTX SVGA monitor
- > for a 486/33 clone with 8megs of ram.
- >
- Seems like you have some errors in your XConfig..
- First, your XConfig explicitly states that you have et4000 chipset, and you
- explicitly state that you have tvga8900.
-
- Second, I think that you may have "Virtual 1024 1024" in your XConfig.
- This is size of the virtual screen, and this virtual screen should be small
- enough to fit in your VGA RAM. As this is a 256-colour mode, every pixel needs
- 8 bits, thus 1024x1024 pixels need 1MByte. Reducing the virtyal resolution, or
- commenting out the whole line could make the situation a lot better.
- (Hey, someone, put this virtual resolution thing to X FAQ, if one exists..)
-
- I also think that XFree 1.0 had some strange bug that appeared with tvga/512k,
- but is fixed with XFree 1.1, and does not affect tvga cards w 1M memory
- installed.
-
- ..Wolf
-