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- From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
- Subject: Re: Xfree86 1.1 on Linux: et4000 clocks-resetting problem?
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:51:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.015133.9900@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec22.193535.27224@ncsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.193535.27224@ncsu.edu> bray@wcuvax1.wcu.edu (Jim Bray) writes:
- > I brought down Xfree86 1.1 from tsx-11. It comes up much faster than
- > Xfree86 1.0Ya, which came with the SLS of 12/03, and came up fine the
- > first time I tried it after running 1.0Ya, but on subsequent
- > invocations the clocks were different from what I see with 1.0Ya on
- > linux and 1.1 on sysV.4 (this is with a Speedstar 1MB card). When I
- > adjusted the Xconfig file, it came up but what unusable. I got around
- > this by putting a "Clocks" line in (I hadn't been using one)
- > hard-coding theclock values that Xfree 1.0Ya reported.
- > I suspect it is not resetting the clocks on termination in the same
- > way that Xfree 1.0Ya did.
- > I am running Linux 0.99
- >
- > --Jim Bray (bray@wcuvax1.wcu.edu)
- >
- > (Please Support the League for Programming Freedom, and Boycott ATT
- > because of their legal intimidation of BSDI, UCB, and CMU)
- >
-
- Actually, we believe that this is a case of the irregularities of (a)
- time-sharing, and (b) hardware. XFree86 1.2 will (we hope) fix this,
- or reduce the fluctuations by (a) nice'ing the server up to a high
- priority before probing (it gets reset after the probe :->), and
- (b) allowing the hardware to settle after changing the selected clock,
- prior to the timing loop. But filling in the Clocks line in the
- Xconfig file is always a good idea, if for no other reason than it
- saves a couple of seconds at server startup time.
-
-
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