Moments before I was going to downgrade back to X3, I got X4 working...
sort-of.
I finally got rid of the pixel lines and black screens with random white
pixels by setting changing colour depth. The colour depth that gave those
problems is 16. At 24, X could not find any working screen modes. At 1
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 06:46 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 03:28 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> > > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:49 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> > > > [snip]
> > > >
>
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2002 03:28 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:49 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > > My hardware isn't too old... it's only 7 years old (I think (and
that'
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 03:28 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:49 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > My hardware isn't too old... it's only 7 years old (I think (and that's
>
> the
>
> > > newest stuff I'm allowed
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:49 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> [snip]
> > My hardware isn't too old... it's only 7 years old (I think (and that's
the
> > newest stuff I'm allowed to customise)). Anyway, all that I have been
able
> > to find out about the video se
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:49 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
[snip]
> My hardware isn't too old... it's only 7 years old (I think (and that's the
> newest stuff I'm allowed to customise)). Anyway, all that I have been able
> to find out about the video setup is that it has a Chips and Technologi
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 January 2002 03:38 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
>
> > > > (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()
> > > >
> > > > Fatal server error:
> > > > no screens found
>
> this is basically telling you that none of the values that might r
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2002 06:30 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> [snip]
> > I tried my old X3 config file, and X4 couldn't parse it... the logfile
> > says:
> >
> > Parse warning on line 43 of section Keyboard in file XF86Config.bak
> > Ignoring obsole
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2002 04:56 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> > The X3 xf86config program says _not_ to probe clocks, but
> > X4 looks like it is probing clocks.
> >
> my understanding of clock probing is that the card is either physically
> capable of standing the
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 13 January 2002 02:11 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > > "X -configure" is...
> > >
> > > (==) CHIPS(0): Min pixel clock is 11.000MHz
> > > (--) CHIPS(0): Max pixel clock is 56.000MHz
> > >
> > > ... and from the "xf86cfg -textmode" meth
It seems that old bits of memory have been put onto the screen (as I am
probably the last person to realise), when the screen is in pixel-lines. The
two examples of this I have are the xf86cfg graphics going into the
pixel-lines after using it without adding the "-textmode". The other, more
recent
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Seneca Cunningham wrote:
>
> >I have just upgraded XFree86 from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the
> >upgrade, I changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the
screen
> >consisted of vertical lines running down my display, the top of the lines
> >we
Seneca Cunningham wrote:
try using xf86config, of xf86cfg to reconfigure X, and see what happens.
xf86config changes my old X3 config file, and xf86cfg messes up my screen.
It spews out some messages that I cannot see because the screen goes into
graphics mode, then it draws an image of a
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:54:34PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
| Jason Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > Try using xf86config, of xf86cfg to reconfigure X, and see what happens.
|
| xf86config changes my old X3 config file, and xf86cfg messes up my screen.
Try "X -configure" instead. X4
Jason Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 04 January 2002 10:13 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> > I have just upgraded X from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the
upgrade, I
> > changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen
consisted
> > of vertical lines running down my d
you are running an X display manager that automatically restarts the x
server after it is taken down with alt-ctrl-backspace, so to solve this
you have to kill the x display manager, then reconfigure x, then start
the x display manager, you probably are using gdm (gnome display
manager) but it
On Friday 04 January 2002 10:13 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> I have just upgraded X from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the upgrade, I
> changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen consisted
> of vertical lines running down my display, the top of the lines were 1
> pixel in
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:13:00PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
| I have just upgraded X from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the upgrade, I
| changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen consisted
| of vertical lines running down my display, the top of the lines were 1 pixe
> How can I find out what part of X is causing this
> problem? All of the bug reports of similar problems
>
buggy driver. i have the same problem on some systems.
i just don't switch back to text mode. workaround
would be to try to find an updated driver or use
another video card(i highly reccom
I have just upgraded X from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After
completing the upgrade, I changed from tty1 to X's
display and saw the image on the screen consisted of
vertical lines running down my display, the top of the
lines were 1 pixel in width and the bottom width was 3
pixels, with 2 wide black horizonta
I have just upgraded X from 3.3.6 to 4.1.0. After completing the upgrade, I
changed from tty1 to X's display and saw the image on the screen consisted
of vertical lines running down my display, the top of the lines were 1 pixel
in width and the bottom width was 3 pixels, with 2 wide black horizonta
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