Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:42:16 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: OLD e-machines box and XF86Config Message-ID: <20041004234216.GA3721@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20041004220203.GI460@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20041004175541.GA3038@thought.org> <20041004220203.GI460@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 07:32:03AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 4 October 2004 at 10:55:41 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Folks, > > > > Does anybody onlist have a working XF86Config for an > > old year 2000 emachine 500ix? > > I suppose I'm not the only person to have no idea what kind of machine > this is. What architecture is it? > > > I just upgraded it to a full 256M of SDRAM and added a > > huge drive. Now am getting ready toput 5.3 on there. > > xf86config, the shell version, didn't work, and it looks > > like I messed up on the GUI config. > > > > Assistance much appreciated. > > Well, a good start would be to give some details of the machine (in > particular, the graphics card), what you've done, and what happened. Thanks to haaving used SuSE in 2000, its probe got the initial video card stuff and an XF86Config listing:: VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC" VideoRam 4096 According to the E-Machine's people, the built-in vidio chip can run at 1280x1024; I never tried it higher that 1024x768. It's a 500MHz P-II with 70GB disc, 256MB memory, and some cheesy sound card. E-Machines is pretty well known so I prob'ly don't have to exlain anything there. We (an EE buddy) put in two new fans and a new PS; I figure it's good for ahnother 4 or 5 years. I'd just like to have a working X config file. Right now, "startx" works; but "xdm" bring up a bare-bones mono-chrome window, and after I type in my name/passwd, xdm quits and repawns. The /etc/X11/ directory has several misc files that might be interfering with xdm, but I don't understand how. (I don't find anything interesting in /tmp/.*) I can use the box via my KVM switch, but intend to use this for further driver testing and so want the xdm "xlogin" to work. Any clues? > > > PS: oh yeah, any opinions on xorg vs xfree86 welcome, too. > > The general consensus seems to be to go with X.org, especially with > unusual hardware. I'm doing so, and "it works for me". > Right now the emachine is running 4.8; I'll go x.org once 5.3-R or -STABLE is out..... gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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