ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 14 January 2002 04:56 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > The X3 xf86config program says _not_ to probe clocks, but > > X4 looks like it is probing clocks. > > > my understanding of clock probing is that the card is either physically > capable of standing the probe or it isn't, and that probing a card that isn't > capable can actually cause damage. i missed the start of this thread so i > don't know what kind of hardware you've got. did x ever run in this
Well, I have an old pentium 100, a 640x480 monitor, 16M RAM, 2G harddrive, a Chips & Technologies 65545 video chip and 1M video RAM. Not much, but it works (except when it doesn't). > environment in any version? x4 should make use of any config file generated > to run under x3, and you should keep in mind that a blank screen doesn't I tried my old X3 config file, and X4 couldn't parse it... the logfile says: Parse warning on line 43 of section Keyboard in file XF86Config.bak Ignoring obsolete keyword "LeftAlt". Parse error on line 43 of section Keyboard in file XF86Config.bak "Meta" is not a valid keyword in this section. (EE) Problem parsing the config file (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() Fatal server error: no screens found The file that caused this problem is my X3 config file that worked properly with X3. > necessarily mean that x isn't running--just that it's not running the way > that you want it to. I had noticed, I could do stuff in X, I just couldn't see what I was doing, all I could see was narrow vertical lines, or a black screen with a random smattering of white pixels. > do you have all the necessary specs for your hardware? i'm one of those that No, I don't have all the specs for my hardware. The manual for the entire system doesn't have the specs beyond the type and size of 4 different monitor possibilities. And yes, the manual is the _only_ one for the system, and it is for everything that can be manualised in it, from the mouse to the monitor. (I hate pre-packaged-commercially-available-from-an-office-store-near-you computers, but in the case of some of my systems, they're all that land on my doorstep) > you are probably close to hating who's never had any problems with running x. I'm still deciding who to hate, the people like you, or the people who decide that a system should only have one _tiny_ manual, most of which is the instructions for installing the sound and mouse drivers on various windoze versions. > consequently, i know jack about it. all i've ever had to do is run > xf86config, enter the relevant specs, and run it. which xserver are you > running? By way of xservers, I have xserver-xfree86 version 4.1.0-11. Just as I was checking various logs, I realised why there were two different sets of pixel clock info... (--) CHIPS(0): Clocks scaled by 2 This was a line that I had missed in the 5.500MHz-28.000MHz log. Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]