home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!convex!convex!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!rutgers!princeton!phoenix.Princeton.EDU!bwpearre
- From: bwpearre@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Benjamin Weste Pearre)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: X Problems (what's new?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.192736.6984@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 19:27:36 GMT
- Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
- Distribution: comp.os.linux
- Organization: Princeton University
- Lines: 74
- Originator: news@nimaster
- Nntp-Posting-Host: phoenix.princeton.edu
-
-
- First, I'd like to say thank-you to everyone working on this great OS...
-
- _THANK_YOU_!
-
- Now, the problems...
- System: 486/50 EISA (I know, I know...) 16M ram
- Mylex SCSI controller
- Diamond Stealth (I wanna new one!!!!!!)
- Fujitsu 500 Meg HD (300M DOS, 200M Linux)
- Lunchbox case... 640x480 gas plasma screen (usually, but I do hook up
- to the monitors of others).
- Logitech MouseMan Serial on com1
-
- SLS 1.0, Linuux 0.99.2
- I used mkefs /dev/hda4 for the Linux part'n
-
- Now: First, when I boot, Linux sees my disk not as a SCSI, but as
- something else. I know not what. This is no problem. The problem is
- that the kernel tries to see the disk as a normak Minix partition at
- bootup, and to mount it as such, so I get MINIX-fs: magic match
- failed. Then all seems to work fine. (Aside: When I mount my DOS
- partition I do NOT get 'no bmap support' ...huh?) Well, to get rid of
- the Minix-FS problem, do I have to make a normal Minix FS to mount as
- /? Can I change the Linux partition from a normal partition to an
- extended partition without scribbling all over the DOS partition? (so
- I can create leetle beety minix-fs ones, or at least 1 to mount as /)
- Or is there a better way?
-
- Now, on to X...
-
- When I say startx, I get a screen slightly shifted to the right, and
- only about the middle half of my screen vertically. I usually get a
- shell window, and xclock, all right in the upper left corner on top of
- each other. The shell seems to work ok, if I can get the mouse into
- it! The mouse cursor seems to change at random between an X, an
- arrow, a text-selector, and a funny square with 3 rectangles inside it
- (small!) one of which is filled. The mouse cursor seems to respond to
- the mouse (good) but rather erratically! It jumps completely at
- random at any large motion of the mouse, and if in a shell window it
- cuts and pastes at random as well. This is rather interesting. :P
- It seems to pay no attention to the buttons.
-
- Well, I have to exit X with <ctrl><alt><backspace>. Then I get the following..
-
- no SIOCGIFCONF
- XFree86 Version 1.0Ya /X Window system
- (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
- Configured drivers:
- VGA2: generic (mem: 64k numclocks: 2)
- et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, tvga8900, generic
- VGA2: generic (mem: 64k numclocks 2)
- VGA2: clocks: 25 28
- XIO: Fatal IO error 32 (broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
- after 471 requests (471 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
- The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
-
- waiting for X server to shut down xterm: fatal IO error 32 (broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
- XIO: # Here is a repeat of the last XIO error, but with different (smaller)
- # numbers... (yes, all 3 lines)
-
- xinit: Interrupted system call (errno 4): Client error.
-
-
- *** Well, that's the error. The funny screen size and all are really
- interesting, but the mouse is even more so! :-|
-
- Any help on this one would be _much_ appreciated!
-
- And thanks for all...
-
- Cheers,
- Ben Pearre
- bwpearre@phoenix.princeton.edu
-