Well, the problem occured after yesterday's potato update and went away after today's update (whew!). I can't find anything in the changelog which would explain it. Oh well, that's why it's called "unstable".
Bob On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 06:56:35AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 03:35:58AM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 12:15:01AM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 09:14:14PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > > (**) FontPath set to > > > > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" > > > > (--) SVGA: PCI: Cirrus Logic GD5430 rev 45, Memory @ 0xe5000000 > > > > (--) SVGA: chipset: clgd5430 > > > > (--) SVGA: videoram: 512k > > > > (**) SVGA: Using 16 bpp, Depth 16, Color weight: 565 > > > > (--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 22.778 MHz > > > > (--) SVGA: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode "1024x768" > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > [snip] > > > > > > Have you examined your XF86Config to see if it got hosed somehow ? > > > You might have to reconfigure. > > > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > > > Gerald > > > > > > > Um... I noticed it detected only 512k ram. You are specifying 1024x768 > > at 16bpp color depth... are you sure there's enough memory for it? > > > > I've got 1024k vidram, and at 16bpp, all I can get is 800x600. > > > > Try dropping to 8bpp and see if it finds a mode it can use. > > It has 2048K of ram, which previously was detected. The XF86Config > files matched a backup I had made several months ago so nothing changed > there. There weren't any X changes in yesterday's potato update, so > that isn't the problem. > > I tried adding a line "VideoRam 2000" and X would start, but it showed > several images at various places on the screen instead of just one. > SVGATextMode doesn't seem to have any problem. I have another card (S3 > Trio) I will try--possibly it's a hardware problem. > > Thanks for all the responses. > > Bob > > -- > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
