Help! X video problems...


Velasquez, Carlos (carlos.velasquez@ssmb.com)
Thu, 8 Jul 1999 15:18:24 -0400


Hello,

Well, after trying to unsuccessfully get X running (or Gnome or KDE) in YDL
on my S900 I thought I would post my problem to the YDL masses.....

Background info....
I have a Umax S900 604e @225Mhz mac clone running MacOS 8.1 with 162 Meg of
ram. My S900 came stock with an ixMicro (formerly Twin Turbo) 8Meg video
card and an NEC XV15" multisync monitor. I have YDL linux installed and I
downloaded the latest XFree86 rpms from the errata web page. I boot into
Linux via BootX v1.1.1 and have the "No Video Driver" option checked.

The first problem...
First thing I did was rpm -Uvh all the XFree86 packages. The fonts packages
all returned errors. More specifically, doing:
rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps /mnt/HDISK1/XFree86-75dpi-fonts-3.3.3.1.rpm
rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps /mnt/HDISK1/XFree86-100dpi-fonts-3.3.3.1.rpm
rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps /mnt/HDISK1/XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-3.3.3.1.rpm
all return the error message:
chkfontpath: bad argument -q:unknown option

The second problem...
After running Xautoconfig and startx (in that order) I get back the
following:

XFree86 Version 3.3.3.1 / X Window System
  (protocol version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: January 4, 1999
  If the release date is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
  newer the the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
  problems (see http://www.XFree86.org/FAQ)
Operating System: Linux 2.2.1 ppc [ELF]
Configured Drivers:
  FBDev: Server for frame buffer device
  (patch level 10): mfb, afb, cfb8, cfb16, cfb32, NCR 77C32BLT (accel), ATi
Mach 64 (accel), IMS Twin Turbo (accel)
  (using VT number 7)

XFree86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
 (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
 (**) XKB: disabled
 (**) Mouse: Type:BusMouse, device:/dev/mouse, buttons:3
 (**) FBDev: Graphics Device ID: "Generic Frame Buffer Device"
 (**) FBDev: Monitor ID: "Unknown"
 (**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1"
 (**) FBDev: Using XF86Config video mode database
 (--) FBDev: Frame Buffer Device: OFfb IMS,tt128m
 (--) FBDev: Video memory: (--) FBDev: Video memory: 1536k@0x82000000
 (--) FBDev: MMIO Regs: 0k@(nil)
 (--) FBDev: Type 0 type_aux 0 bits_per_pixel 16
 (--) FBDev: Hardware accelarator: None
 (--) FBDev: No driver support for hardware acceleration
 bpp=16, depth = 15, BitsPerRGB = 5
 (--) FBDev: Using cfb16 driver

-FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111
failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
Fatal server error:
Could not open default font 'fixed'

When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the list messages.

X connection to :0,0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)

So what is going on here?? Can anyone help me out? I really want to get X
running on this machine!

Carlos
______________________________________________________________________
C.F. Velasquez
Asst. Vice President
Global Database and Technology Division
Salomon Smith Barney, Inc.



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