Re: confusing X problem
Patrick,
I took a look at your files on the web. A quick check of
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards indicates the following:
NAME Weitek P9100 (generic)
CHIPSET Weitek P9100
SERVER SVGA
NOCLOCKPROBE
I noticed you have a RAMDAC entry and a Clocks entry in your XF86Config.
It may be that the card does not like to be probed (the commented VideoRam
entry would suggest this). If you haven't already, try removing those
entries and see what happens. Beyond this I'm out of ideas. Just read,
read, read .... :-)
Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote:
> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:04:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Patrick Olson <compman@internetcds.com>
> To: Ernest Johanson <ejohan@fuller.edu>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: confusing X problem
>
>
> > You can find documentation at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/. Check
> > out the Installation and Getting Started Guide, and the X HOW-TOs.
>
> Thank you for the information. However, I have tried to make sense out of
> the information and still can not get anything better than 320x200
> resolution.
>
> The Installation and Getting Started Guide referred to two documents
> which apparently did not get installed on my system: VideoModes.doc,
> modeDB.txt. As such, I couldn't find the information that is apparently
> necessary to continue.
>
> Even after all of this reading, I simply do not understand what is wrong
> with the configuration. There are several 800x600 mode lines for X to
> choose from, and the screens section has both 640x480 and 800x600 listed
> under each of the four color depths (8, 16, 24, 32).
>
> That led me to the device section, where everything looked OK, except that
> for some strange reason, VideoRam 2048 was commented out. Unfortunately,
> fixing that didn't change the resolution it chose.
>
> It simply makes no sense to me why it is rejecting 640x480 and 800x600
> modes without giving any errors about those modes.
>
> Since I clearly don't know what I'm doing, or not doing, could someone
> please take a minute to point out the mistakes in my config file?
>
> By the way, my /etc/X11/XF86Config and /var/log/xdm.log are at:
>
> http://home.internetcds.com/~compman/XF86Config
> http://home.internetcds.com/~compman/xdm.log
>
>
> Thank you,
> Patrick Olson
>
>
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