RE: Graphics mode on my C3000 - still no joy - more info
I was wrong about the message "Process set to nice value 0 instead of -10 as
requested" after the "I cannot start the X server" window ... it's gone. The
next window starts out "This is apre-release of XFree86 and is not supported
in any way".
Also, after you see this window, you get a chance to retry to start X. You
put in the root password and it goes through the process pretty quickly. By
watching it several times I was able to see two things:
1. "Unable to open/locate file //XF86Config.new
error from xf86HandleConfigFile()
2. Fatal Screen Error:
No Screens Found
By the way, I also tried changing the monitor to type 5 (1024x768) and
changing the mode to 1024x768 in the Display SubSection. This made no
difference.
Thanks,
Harry
Thanks Helge and Joel,
I edited /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 according to your recommendations. It now
reads:
Section "Screen"
Identifer "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Video Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 8
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
On reboot, I get the same error as before. A dialog box asking if I wanted
to see what was wrong with the X configuration and I said "Yes". This
brought up a window which said "Process set to nice value 0 instead of -10
as requested" and a bunch of XFree disclaimers. It feels like the changes
I'm making to XF86Config-4 aren't making any difference. Is the process
xinit goes through reading XFConfig-4 dynamic on every boot?
Also, does anyone have any idea about the error:
"Setting up xfonts-scalable (4.3.0.dfsg.1-5) ...
fmt: invalid line number increment: '0'
dpkg: error processing xfonts-scalable (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Best regards,
Harry
-----Original Message-----
From: Helge Deller [mailto:deller@gmx.de]
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 12:06 PM
To: debian-hppa@lists.debian.org
Cc: Harry Cochran
Subject: Re: Graphics mode on my C3000 - close but no cigar
On Sunday 27 June 2004 17:24, Harry Cochran wrote:
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth n
> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> for n=1,4,8,15,16,24
Please try this one _only_ (remove all other resolutions):
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
Helge
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But the clue here, is that hppa fb doesn't support switching and so just
change Modes as :
Modes "1280x1024"
would be enough to fix your pb and make sure the default depth is well 8 :)
hth,
Joel
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