On Sunday, June 29, 2003 6:11 pm, Christian Hvid wrote:I have been given the daunting task of setting up XFree on an Axiomtek SBC84500. It has an absolutely minimal linux (embedix / Caldera):
uname -a Linux (none) 2.4.5-pre1 #25 Wed Jan 8 03:22:27 UTC 2003 i586 unknown
(Not even the clock is set.)
Surely you can fix that. :^)
I have followed the instructions on http://www.xfree.org/4.2.0/Install4.html#manual-install, I have run XFree86 -configure but when I run XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new the screen shows some surreal graphics and it stops with a bunch of error messages.
Could you describe the display? Do you have a rolling screen, flickering,
amorphous areas of wrong colors, or anything of the sort? Or are all the
problems at the pixel level?
Random dots in various colors. No movement, no flickering.
Looks like the startup "burp" of an old video game machine. Like the videocard is reading some part of memory it was not supposed to.
What kind of monitor are you using, anyway? Does your card output to a VGA
port, S-Video, composite, DVI, proprietary connection, what?
I use the VGA port to output to my Samsung SyncMaster 900p.
Can anyone give me an idea to what is wrong? The system is a little shaky and runs on some old RAM - there might a problem there (shared video ram). Have I messed up something in the installation or it is just a mouse driver that is missing?
Can you temporarily swap the RAM? If that fixes it, then that fixes it. If
not, look elsewhere for the problem.
Not at the moment.
XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System
Try 4.3.0, perhaps?
(++) Using config file: "/root/XF86Config.new"
May we see this file?
I have put it at the bottom of this post.
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
Does your kernel have support for this? If so, mknod the file in question.
Read linux/Documentation/devices.txt for more information.
(II) PCI: 00:12:0: chip 1078,0100 card 0000,0000 rev 30 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:12:4 (--) Chipset vesa found
Does this card work with svgalib or fbcon?
I don't know.
(==) VESA(0): Depth 8, (==) framebuffer bpp 8 (==) VESA(0): Default visual is PseudoColor
Are you having palette problems, that is, wrong colors?
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC supported (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC Level 2 (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC transfer in appr. 3 sec. (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC read failed
Again, what kind of monitor?
(--) VESA(0): Virtual size is 1280x1024 (pitch 1280) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 640x400 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 640x480 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 800x600 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 1024x768 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 1280x1024 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 320x200 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 320x240 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 400x300 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 512x384 (unnamed)
Which one do you use?
Can I set this some where?
(**) VESA(0): Using "Shadow Framebuffer"
Could this be the problem?
Option "ShadowFB" "False" yields the same results.
(WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs
Does your computer have MTRR support? If so, enable it in your kernel.
I don't think it has.
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse No such file or directory. (EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0" (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" (II) Keyboard "Keyboard0" handled by legacy driver (WW) No core pointer registered Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap No core pointer
Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices
Here's your showstopper. You don't have a /dev/mouse. If it's under a different name, adjust your XF86Config file.
There is no mouse on the system currently. I have inserted /dev/null instead of /dev/mouse.
Thanks for the help.
Here is my config file:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSectionSection "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/"
EndSectionSection "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
EndSectionSection "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
EndSectionSection "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSectionSection "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSectionSection "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vesa"
VendorName "Cyrix"
BoardName "5530 Kahlua Video"
BusID "PCI:0:18:4"
EndSectionSection "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
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
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