W32p won't X correctly

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3 total messages Started by Michael Stillwell Thu, 26 Jan 1995 06:00

#115

Author: Michael Stillwell
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 06:00

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Whenever I try to start XFree_W32 (I have an ET4000/W32P rev b with 
an ATT20c492 RAMDAC.  The monitor is a ViewMaster 15in with digital 
controls) I either get:

1. Screen makes the "switching-modes" noise, but goes entirely blank.
Sometimes killing the server will get me back to text mode, but
sometimes not, so I have to reboot to see anything.  (I assume that
everything is still "there", I just can't see it.)  This happens maybe
80% of the time.

2. X will come up: I get a blue screen and around it I get this sort of
grey colour (the same sort of colour you get when you turn up the
brightness of your monitor) - is this normal?  After using X for a little 
while (1-2 minutes), various weird things happen like: I get thin 
horizontal lines across the screen, the palette will change slightly 
and sometimes the whole screen fades so I can't see anything any more.  

As it is, X is quite unusable, which is particularly frustrating since I
picked the hardware to be X-compatible.  It happens with whatever screen
mode I try, even the VESA-standard ones.  

Michael

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Re: W32p won't X correctly

#116

Author: Adrian Gentle
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 06:22

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Michael Stillwell (mist@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
: Whenever I try to start XFree_W32 (I have an ET4000/W32P rev b with 
: an ATT20c492 RAMDAC.  The monitor is a ViewMaster 15in with digital 
: controls) I either get:

Hi Michael,
	
	I've got the w32p chipset working fine with my 15" Videocom
monitor, although it took a fair amount of fiddling before everything
ran smoothly...
	If the problem is with the chipset section of your Xconfig
files I can send you a copy of mine - however it sounds like it
is most likely the monitor setup causing problems.  (Unfortunately
I'm about 800km from my box at the moment - or I'de post the 
relavent bits now!).

	If you can't get it working let me know and I may be able
to give some help... 8)
	
Adrian.
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Re: W32p won't X correctly

#117

Author: Andy Meyer
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 22:14

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adrian@jacobi.maths.monash.edu.au (Adrian Gentle) wrote:
>
> Michael Stillwell (mist@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
> : Whenever I try to start XFree_W32 (I have an ET4000/W32P rev b with 
> : an ATT20c492 RAMDAC.  The monitor is a ViewMaster 15in with digital 
> : controls) I either get:

I had some problems with it locking up XDM and other random
freezes. For now, I am running the SVGA server (quite successfully)
and it is almost as fast as the W32 server. The w32 server is still 
rather new, I know that hercules sent the writer of the server a card
to experiment here a couple of months ago, however I have not been
following the updates to that server lately, cause the SVGA is still
fairly nice. only annoying thing is the screenblank goes all white
instead of all black.
any other ?'sssss,
let me know.....
Andy Meyer
ameyer@opus.aae.uiuc.edu

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