Subject: Studio Display 17" probs
From: Ken Tabb (ken@psy.herts.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 05:15:59 MST
Hello,
I've just installed CS1.1 on an Apple Network Server 500/132 which
(following many trials and tribulations, mainly due to problems with a
few hard disks) has installed fine. The server is connected to an Apple
Studio Display 17" Graphite, albeit via a VGA->mac adaptor, a mac monitor
switch, then a mac->VGA adaptor. At the end of the install it kicks into
Xconfigurator 4.2.4 which asks about mouse/network/clock/monitor. When it
gets to monitor it gives the following:
fbdev probe
Probing found a:
Name: Cirrus 54m30
Video Memory: 1 Meg
Accelerated: No
...which presumably is the video card. It then lists monitor types (inc.
Apple Studio Display 17"), which I select. It then lists the various
8/16/24 resolutions. First I tried checking them all (being greedy,
y'know) and it gives the message:
Xconfigurator will now start X to test your configuration
It then gives a message "Preparing to start the Xserver" and soon comes
back with "There is a problem with your X configuration. You may go back
and modify your configuration or exit now". This then reverts back to the
list of monitor types. If I whittle the resolutions down to any one, I
still get the same error. There is one exception to this: if I select
just 640x480 8bit, it gets as far as starting the Xserver and showing the
grey background with white 'X' cursor, but then drops out again to the
same error. If I try it a second time at 640x480 8bit, it doesn't show
the grey background with the white 'X' server, instead skipping straight
to the error.
If I just quit and reboot, I get the following error after the SCSI disks
are checked:
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 100k init 32k prep
Warning: Unable to open an initial console
Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
Rebooting in 180 seconds.
whassgoingon? Should I be choosing a custom monitor? The settings I'm
choosing are 'legal' for the monitor (at least according to the monitor
tech specs).
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer,
Confused & probably barking up the wrong tree,
Ken
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Ken Tabb.
Mac & UNIX C/C++/Java developer (Health & Human Sciences),
Machine Vision researcher/programmer (Computer Science),
University of Hertfordshire, Herts AL10 9AB, England
Tel: (+44 / 0) 1707 286171 e-mail: ken@psy.herts.ac.uk
http://www.health.herts.ac.uk/ken/
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