Subject: Re: Xserver issues - and - Where to find Linux documentation that doesn't suck?
From: andu (undo@cloud9.net)
Date: Sat Nov 03 2001 - 10:48:40 MST
John Norair wrote:
>
> Xserver part:
> Getting the XServer to work: it says no display found, where do I fix
> that?
Sounds to me like an XFree86 4.x issue so you need to check the
XF86Config file. This is what I have on my PC Linux which I'm in right
now, but it should make no difference:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "pex5"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "xie"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "APP"
ModelName "AppleStudio"
HorizSync 31.0 - 56.5
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "accel" # [<bool>]
#Option "crt_screen" # [<bool>]
#Option "composite_sync" # [<bool>]
#Option "hw_cursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "linear" # [<bool>]
#Option "mmio_cache" # [<bool>]
#Option "probe_clocks" # [<bool>]
#Option "reference_clock" # <freq>
#Option "shadow_fb" # [<bool>]
#Option "sw_cursor" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "Mach64 GB"
ChipSet "ati"
ChipId 0x4742
ChipRev 0x5c
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
>
> I have posted this before. I'm just going to toss it up again to see if
> anyone bites.
>
> Where is Linux documentation + unfortunate, subconsciously induced rant.
>
> My biggest problem with Linux is that it has no corporate entity that's
> really behind it, so there's no be-all/end-all documentation. It seems
> to me that the Linux user base learns and passes on knowledge through a
> verbal system more appropriate for tribal groups like Free Masons and
> Navajo.
Couldn't have said it better, but I for one would rather interact with a
tribal environment for 1000 years then a corporate one for 1 hour. Just
look around at what you *really* get from corporate backed entities.
>I have read quite a few "Linux Docs" (a lot) and I find them
> very unfulfilling. Where do you find this great Linux documentation? I
> suppose I could buy support from TerraSoft, but at this point I won't
> pay a cent for YDL: In terms of opportunity cost it has already cost
> thousands of dollars.
>
> I'm stuck in this bad situation, where I know quite a bit about what's
> going wrong - more than anyone I've encountered - but it's not enough to
> solve the problem. This is where it would be very nice to have explicit
> corporate documentation.
>
> Considering the time I have put into trying to get my system to work, I
> probably could have rewritten enough parts of the kernel source to force
> the damn thing to work. So please, if anyone has any idea where to find
> detailed documentation that explain how to fix it that doesn't ramble on
> about what's going on (I know what's going on), I'd be much obliged.
>
> Thanks,
> John Norair
Andu
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