Re: X install under 1.2
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Bob Clark wrote: 'cldg5429' is an invalid chipset. This should be clgd not cldg! If this was just a typo in your post, you Typo. I tried many chipsets. SuperProbe says its a 5429. Cheers, Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X install under 1.2
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Jim Michael wrote: This is my first post to this list. I have looked through some of the archives and ran a search against the archives but have not found anything to help me with this problem. I have installed 1.2 on a 486-66 with a Diamond Speedstar Pro. There has been some useful info for you on this list, however that was months ago. Let me guess, you have a Infomagic Linux Developers Resource 6 cd set? It contains debian 1.2 aka rex, while debian 1.3 has just been released. 1.2 had some bugs in the installation of x (and some other bugs.) 1.2.x, x6 had these all fixed I believe. I followed the recent recommendations and installed in order: xbase, xfnt75,xserver-vga16,xserver-svga. XF86Setup Uhmm, those were recommendations for 1.3 actually. 1.2 had different problems, some of which could not be resolved by a particular order of packages installation. Any ideas what package I may be missing or other config error? There are some descriptions around of how to install a perfectly good system from a 1.2 Infomagic cd and there is at least one available on the web at http://ece.wpi.edu/~rulnick/GlinuX/debian-1.2-faq.html Another one can be found in the lists' archive. Look for a message from Zenon Fortuna dated 7 januari 1997 in the debian user archive (follow the documentation link on www.debian.org.) Basically, it requires some additional handwork to fix some small errors in install scripts, but it is pretty well documented and not hard at all. IIRC the biggest problem with x was that a line /usr/X11/lib wasn't added to /etc/ld.conf. If you add it and run ldconfig (as root ofcourse) x should work a lot better already. Good luck with the installation, Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X install under 1.2
--[snip] 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. This should be clgd not cldg! If this was just a typo in your post, you could try putting a different Cirrus chipset line in your XF86Config file. clgd5436 or clgd5428 might make X work. I had a similar problem with a Cirrus chipset (clgd7548) and using clgd5436 fixed it for me. --Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X install under 1.2
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: There has been some useful info for you on this list, however that was months ago. Let me guess, you have a Infomagic Linux Developers Resource 6 cd set? It contains debian 1.2 aka rex, while debian 1.3 has just been Correct, dated April '97. Uhmm, those were recommendations for 1.3 actually. 1.2 had different problems, some of which could not be resolved by a particular order of packages installation. Doh! Zenon Fortuna dated 7 januari 1997 in the debian user archive (follow the documentation link on www.debian.org.) Basically, it requires some additional handwork to fix some small errors in install scripts, but it is pretty well documented and not hard at all. IIRC the biggest problem with x was that a line /usr/X11/lib wasn't added to /etc/ld.conf. If you add it and run ldconfig (as root ofcourse) x should work a lot better already. The /usr/X11/lib entry was in /etc/ld.conf so I think the problem at this point is getting the chipset correct. Generic chipset works so I may tweak that. Thanks for all the pointers. Cheers, Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X install under 1.2
Jim, Did I read your post right? Did you rm XF86Config!!! 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 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 produced by xf86config are minimal to get X running, you can squeeze much more performance out of even modest hardware with a little reading and hacking (I have 768x562 from a 10 year old VGA monitor that I found at a garage sale for $10). Look in the /usr/X11/lib/X11/doc directory for some good documentation and good luck!!! Ben White [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X install under 1.2
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] .
