On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Benjamin T. White wrote: > Did I read your post right? Did you rm XF86Config!!!
Yep, it was the only thing I could think of (rebooting did not work). I then purged everything and re-dpkg'd in the order suggested. I could only type 2 characters at a time between flashes :-( > > XF86Config is the configuration file for the X system. It contains all the > information about your graphics card, screen, mouse, and other important > information that your X client needs to run. The flashing screen problem is > most likely a problem with the screen and/or graphics card setup. You need > to Quite logical. It occured during configuration of SVGA for Cirrus 542x chipset. Looking at the error log from the last attempt is another clue - "SVGA: 'cldg5429' is an invalid chipset." > produce a XF86Config file for your particular hardware setup. You can either > read the documentation on the XF86Config and edit the sample (that you > deleted), or you can use the xf86config program to produce a config file that > should work if you know what hardware you have. However, the config files You see, I know what hardware I have and XF86Setup appears to create the configuration file OK, but xinit and startx both fail with fatal error 111. I was hoping someone knew of a specific problem with 1.2 and Cirrus 542x or more generally with X and 1.2. Most of the other problems I have come across have been solved with a search on hotbot. This time I could only find 2 references which were in Japanese. Cheers, Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .