Re: XF86 Error!
I've done some fiddling. I read in the fbdev docs for Macintosh 68k that
you can only run X using fbdev and the depth you where in, in macos. So I
switched to 256 colours in macos, rebooted, changed the depth in XF86Config
to 8bits and typed startx.
It did the same thing as before [mentioned below]. I copied the last
section of what it spat out:
** Begin Copy **
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/
misc/"
(**) FBDev: Using default frame buffer video mode
(--) FBDev: Frame buffer device: Mac Generic
(--) FBDev: Video memory: 480k @ 0x50100800
(--) FBDev: MMIO regs: 0k @ (nill)
(--) FBDev: Type 0 type_aux 0 bits_per_pixel 8
(--) FBDev: Hardware accelerator: None
(--) FBDev: Nodriver support for hardware acceleration
bpp = 8, depth = 8, Bits Per RGB = 8
(--) FBDev: Using cfb8 driver
waiting for X server to shut down
Prompt:/#
** End Copy **
Not sure what this is on about. There doesn't seem to be any errors.
However it did boot into X, the background appeared and the X also appeared
[no windows]. Then it just quit and gave me that.
Any help would be really appreciated
Thanks a lot
Cameron
Cameron said at ÒXF86 Error!Ó.
[2001/09/13Thu 20:31]
> You've all seen it before [in fact it's mentioned throughout this list
> many
> times]. However, I havn't yet found any advice that has helped.
>
> On trying to 'startx' I get this:
>
> fbdevScreenInit: unable to set screen params
>
> All the posts I've seen have had something to do with the screen depth.
> So
> I tried playing around with it. I got the same error for a depth of 1, 4
> and 8. Then at 16bit it started [The little X cursor appeared] then it
> closed down and gave me another error complaining I lack the video
> hardware
> to run at that depth [which is true].
>
> Does anyone *really* know what is going on and how they can help?
> Cheers
> Cameron
>
> [I've since solved my harddrive problem, thanks for all the advice]
>
>
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