Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 08:33:07 -0700 From: "Foster, Jim" <JFOSTER@CSKAUTO.COM> To: "'Greg Lehey'" <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Desperately trying to get X to work... Message-ID: <BF4A830F5207D2119420006008A1DB14DDC3C8@v128041.vandenberg.af.mil>
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Greg, You stated that my e-mailer, Microsoft Outlook/Exchange, is mangling my messages. At the moment my only other e-mail solution is Eudora, which is also on your "crud list". Nobody had yet complained about the "quality" of my e-mails so I was going to hold off configuring email on FreeBSD (if ever) on FreeBSD until I got X running. I also thought I read that it is improper to send attachments to the list, which is the only other way I have of getting these files on the list. So, with all of that said.... What alternatives do I have on getting the information to those who can help me in a readable format? I will take a guess and excerpt what I *think* you want to see. Hopefully it will not be to badly mangled... >From the SVGA 8-bit color run (which works-I am able to cycle through all of the resolutions): ... (**) SVGA: clocks: 25.20 28.32 39.70 0.00 50.40 76.72 35.68 44.60 (**) SVGA: clocks: 130.26 119.55 79.40 31.22 109.75 65.12 74.94 94.57 ... (**) SVGA: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 25.175, clock used = 25.200 (**) SVGA: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 40.000, clock used = 39.700 (**) SVGA: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 75.000, clock used = 74.940 (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768 ... >From the SVGA 16-bit color run (which doesn't): ... (**) SVGA: clocks: 25.20 28.32 39.70 0.00 50.40 76.72 35.68 44.60 (**) SVGA: clocks: 130.26 119.55 79.40 31.22 109.75 65.12 74.94 94.57 ... (**) SVGA: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 25.175, clock used = 25.200 (**) SVGA: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 40.000, clock used = 39.700 (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 800x600 (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024 (--) SVGA: Effective pixel clocks available for depth 16: (--) SVGA: pixel clocks: 12.60 14.16 19.85 0.00 25.20 38.36 17.84 22.30 (--) SVGA: pixel clocks: 65.13 59.77 39.70 15.61 54.88 32.56 37.47 47.28 ... The 8-bit color one did not have anything about pixel clocks like the 16-bit color one did. For S3 run (-probeonly): ... (**) S3: Ramdac type: att20c490 (--) S3: Ramdac speed: 110 MHz (**) S3: clocks: 25.20 28.32 39.70 0.00 50.40 76.73 35.68 44.60 (**) S3: clocks: 130.26 119.56 79.40 31.22 109.73 65.13 74.94 94.57 (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 110.000 MHz (**) S3: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 25.175, clock used = 25.200 (**) S3: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 40.000, clock used = 39.700 (**) S3: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 75.000, clock used = 74.940 (--) S3: Using 6 bits per RGB value ... Let me know if you want the entire contents posted. Thanks Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Lehey [SMTP:grog@lemis.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 7:34 PM > To: Jim Foster > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Desperately trying to get X to work... > > [Format autorecovered at freebie.lemis.com] > > On Tuesday, 3 November 1998 at 8:29:01 -0700, Foster, Jim wrote: > >> On Monday, November 02, 1998 4:15 PM, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> > wrote: > >> > >> On Monday, 2 November 1998 at 9:34:33 -0700, Foster, Jim wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I am trying to get X to work on my computer, but I am not having > >>> much luck. I have read the book (The Complete FreeBSD), I have > >>> read the errata, I have downloaded and used the new chapter 8 of > >>> the book, I have looked at past list archives....All with no luck. > >>> > >>> Basically what happens is when I configure and run X, I hear my > monitor > >>> click and then go black. I stays that way until I kill X, and cycle > my > >>> monitor off and on. > >> > >> This is an indication that X is trying to drive the monitor out of > >> spec. It's turning off to avoid burning out. > >> > >>> I have an IBM ValuePoint computer (i486/66 DX2) with built-in S3 > video. > >>> SuperProbe reports: > >>> First video: Super-VGA > >>> Chipset: S3 86C805, C-step (Port Probed) > >>> Memory: 1024 Kbytes > >>> RAMDAC: AT&T 20C490 15/16/24-bit DAC > >>> (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) > >>> (programmable for 6/8-bit wide lookup tables) > >>> > >>> For what it is worth, Win 95 reports that I have S3 video and that > >>> the chipset is 801/805 Rev E. (Sidebar: In windows I can > >>> regularly use 800x600 and 16-bit color with no problems). > >>> > >>> I have verified on the monitor manufacturer's web site what the > >>> horizontal and vertical refresh rates are, so that part should be > >>> OK (it's not in the monitors database). > >> > >> What are they? > >> > >>> When I configured X, it only presents me with three chipset > >>> options for S3. Those are mmio_928, newmmio, and s3_generic. No > >>> 86C805! Because of all of the "deadly warnings" about frying > >>> monitors AND chipsets, I have only selected s3_generic so far. > >> > >> You're unlikely to fry that monitor. The "click and go black" is a > >> good sign. And s3_generic should do it. > >> > >>> I have configured the memory for 1MB, and the RAMDAC (whatever that > >>> is...) to att20c490, but I am not sure about the rest of the stuff > >>> that SuperProbe spit out, like ...15/16/24-bit DAC... and the stuff > >>> about lookup tables. I assume it has to do with color depth. > >>> Finally, I also did not choose any clock chip support since > >>> SuperProbe did not tell me any thing about clock chips. > >> > >> That should all be OK. > >> > >>> I had the config script run X -probeonly to put the clock lines into > the > >>> configuration. > >> > >> You should be able to leave out the clock lines. If X -probeonly > >> finds them, it'll find them at startup too. > >> > >>> When I run startx, my monitor clicks, and goes black. > >>> > >>> As an experiment, I reconfigured X to use the SVGA server instead of > S3 > >>> and > >>> I can get that to work in 8-bit color mode only (looks _real_ ugly). > As > >>> soon as I try and use the SVGA configuration with something more than > >>> 8-bit > >>> color...you guessed it, click-and-black. > >>> > >>> Am I suppose to use mmio_928 or newmmio? How do I know which one? > Will > >>> it > >>> hurt my computer if I try and it is wrong? What else do I need to look > >>> at? > >> > >> The first thing you need to look at is the information that X prints > >> out when it starts. Since you have The Book, look at page 229, which > >> shows you how to start X and capture this information. In particular, > >> check the information that it outputs about horizontal frequencies. > > > > OK, I redirected the startx output to a file, what do I look for? > > It should be obvious. If it isn't, just post the output. It's not > that much. But please either fix your mailer or use one which doesn't > mutilate text the way your current one does. Otherwise it'll be > illegible. It took me about 3 minutes to reinstate the message above. > You might like to check http://www.lemis.com/email.html for > information about mailers which mutilate text. > > > [Greg: by the way, the example on page 229 did not save the output > > to a file, it went to the screen. I needed to use `startx > > 1>startx.out 2>&1`.] > > Looks as if you're using csh. As indicated in the preface, the prompt > indicates that this example is with sh. I suppose I should add an > example for csh... > > > What I ended up saving was output from my SVGA server in 8-bit mode, my > SVGA > > server that I *attempted* to run in 16-bit mode, and I *tried* to > > reconfigure it back to S3, but that was locking up my system. I am > guessing > > that I messed up the keyboard somewhere along the way (C-A-backspace and > > C-A-del did not work). I have a keyboard that looks like a Microsoft > > Natural keyboard, but it does not seem to be mapped like on. Anyway, I > ran > > out of time last night so the only output that I could get from the S3 > one > > was from a `startx -- -probeonly 1>...`. > > OK, let's see them. > > > So, what do I need to look for and what kind of things will I need to > > change? > > Look for the horizontal (and, I suppose, vertical) frequencies. You > might also check that you have a standard 640x480 display, just to > make sure that you can display anything. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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