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From: martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas)
Subject: XFree86 on ISC 2.0.2
Keywords: Any success stories?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:51:23 GMT

Has anyone successfully installed XFree86 on a 386 running ISC 386ix 2.0.2?

I'd like to know whether it's worth me upgrading to a later version 
of 386ix just to get XWindows happening on this machine.

Martin
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: koch@rtsg.mot.com (Clifton Koch)
Subject: Sigma Legend VGA card and Xfree86
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:22:54 GMT

  Has anyone gotten a Sigma Legend VGA card to work at higher
resolutions/refresh rates with Xfree86?  I know this card has a 65 Mhz dot clock
somewhere, because I can get 1024x768x60 Hz under DOS.  I have not been able
to find this clock for use under Xfree86.  I've tried essentially setting up
the parameters for 1024x768 and starting X with the mode defined for each
clock position.  The fastest refresh rate I got was around 50 Hz, and some
of the dot clocks seemed to change with each invokation of X.

  If you have gotten good results with X and this card, I'd appreciate hearing
what you did, and what your Xconfig file looks like.

Thanks,
Cliff Koch

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: friedman@starbase.trincoll.edu (Mark A. Friedman)
Subject: Is a programmable keyboard of use when running XFree86?
Reply-To: mark.friedman@mail.trincoll.edu
Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:16:12 GMT

Is a programmable keyboard important when running XFree86?

I am looking at buying a keyboard for my system and my current
criteria is a solid (metallic), durable and comfortable feeling keypad.
I am viewing a programmable keyboard feature to be of minimal 
importance as I assume the few changes I will want to make to the
key layout (Make sure a control and meta key are in a decent place.
Say, set the right shift key to a meta key.) can be done through
xmodmap and other keyboard functionality (function key assignment to 
window manager functions) can be set through my window manager (twm).

Is this too simplistic a view to be taking due to missing functionality
in "standard" PC keyboards?

I am also not interested in too many function keys nor numeric keypads.
A 101-key keyboard seems plenty to me.
Can anyone suggest a brand or specific keyboard for me to look at?

Also, have XFree86 users typically substituted three-button mice for
their systems?  Can anyone suggest a brand or specific mouse for me
to look at?

Thanks,

-- Mark
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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: 32K or 16M colours?
Date: 23 Dec 92 17:19:33 GMT
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

In article <1992Dec22.130619.18414@news.lrz-muenchen.de>, roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell) writes:
>> Take a look at how the 24-bit SVGA's are implemented.  Packed 3-byte
>> pixels.  It's going to make working on them rediculous[sic].
> I don't think 3byte pixels is that rediculus[sic] if you look at the
> memory contraints given in todays SVGAs.  But the price to pay is
> VERY high.  You can only deal with 24bpp (opposed to 32bpp) by using
> 32bit reads/writes.  A simple statistic shows that about every second
> access will be not correctly aligned and hence at least 2 32bit
> accesses to video memroy will be necessary.  Having this in mind a
> 24bpp framebuffer will be at leat 1.5 times slower than a 32bpp.

Only if the implementation is careless.  You should be doing three
32-bit memory accesses for every four pixels.  Only if you're doing
something narrow (ie, small span along the x axis) will the
misalignment effect make much difference.  Granted, drawing lines is a
common operation, but I believe area copies and text drawing are much
more important for nearly all applications.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: yhuang@athena.mit.edu (Yunshui Charles Ko Huang)
Subject: XIE
Keywords: XIE
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:04:58 GMT

Hi, I heared something about XIE X Image Extension(?) document(?), software
package (?). Does anyone knows it? Where to get it?
I  am appreciate if anyone give me a call (617)253-5040 or email to me
yhuang@athena.mit.edu

Thanks.

Charles Huang

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GALBRAITH JOHN)
Subject: COM port conflict in XFree86
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:50:00 GMT

Hey, does anybody know why my serial mouse (Microsoft type) does not 
work properly when I am using the modem?  The mouse is in COM1 and the
baud rate is selected by the server - I don't tell it what it should be
in the Xconfig.  The modem is in COM2 at 2400 baud. 
	Normally, the mouse is fine.  When I am on the modem, however,
the server will only respond to the mouse after a keypress.  So, you can
adjust the mouse, hit a key to see it go, adjust the mouse some more, hit 
another key...
	To make matters more confusing, the mouse works fine when I am
doing a zmodem download.
	Is this something that XFree is doing, or the operating system?
I am running 386BSD 0.1.  If this is an operating system question, I will
ask elsewhere...
	Thanks.
John Galbraith
galbrait@rintintin.colorado.edu
From: sn@plato.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de (sn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: XConfig Settings for NEC 4FG 1024x768 & SS + HiColor wanted
Keywords: Xfree86
Date: 24 Dec 92 00:32:21 GMT

Hello everyone,
I am running 386BSD-0.1 with Xfree86 and I'm experiencing problems
with my VGA-Card/Monitor combination.
In the beginning, everything went fine with the default VESA
settings of the XConfig file.
Suddenly, xdm detected other clockrates on my SpeedStar Plus (4.23) HiColor.
Since then, I had to adjust my XConfig file numerous times to
take care of the new clock rates xdm detected (e.g. 75 changed to 76, etc)
However, I'm now having problems using the following 1024x768 modes
on my NEC 4FG:
# name        clock   horizontal timing     vertical timing      flags
  "1024x768"    75     1024 1048 1184 1328    768  771  777  806
This is the same I have been using at the beginning and it used to work
fine. Now, however, I am experiencing an pretty much unusable picture.
Did I damage my monitor? Does anyone have better settings for the NEC 4FG?
What are the best/correct Clocks for the SpeedStar Plus Hicolor?
Do I get more flicker if I use a lower clock?
I looked on my card and is has a 48Mhz oscillator on it.

Any help via EMail is appreciated.

-Sven Neuhaus
sn@plato.Chemietechnik.Uni-Dortmund.de
[Exitus ergo eram]	Computer Science student at the Dortmund University
:: I *love* my 386BSD ::
From: aoki@risk.stanford.edu (ikuro aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: 1280x1024 256(or >) colors
Date: 22 Dec 92 15:26:42
Organization: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
	<1992Dec16.182141.18756@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
	<1992Dec17.195406.12652@lucrece.robots.ox.ac.uk>
	<1992Dec22.125521.17803@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: risk.stanford.edu
In-reply-to: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de's message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:55:21 GMT

  >>The also mentioned 801/805/928 do support up to 4MB (with some
  >>specialRAMDACs like the Bt485). 

Is this correnct?  According to MY S3 86C801/805 data book, 
the 801/805 chip support up to 2Mbyte.
--
Ikuro
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GALBRAITH JOHN)
Subject: COM port conflict in XFree86
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:52:20 GMT

Hey, does anybody know why my serial mouse (Microsoft type) does not 
work properly when I am using the modem?  The mouse is in COM1 and the
baud rate is selected by the server - I don't tell it what it should be
in the Xconfig.  The modem is in COM2 at 2400 baud. 
	Normally, the mouse is fine.  When I am on the modem, however,
the server will only respond to the mouse after a keypress.  So, you can
adjust the mouse, hit a key to see it go, adjust the mouse some more, hit 
another key...
	To make matters more confusing, the mouse works fine when I am
doing a zmodem download.
	Is this something that XFree is doing, or the operating system?
I am running 386BSD 0.1.  If this is an operating system question, I will
ask elsewhere...
	Thanks.
John Galbraith
galbrait@rintintin.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: mrex@indigo0 (Martin Rex)
Subject: Re: ATI bus mouse with Linux and X
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 00:15:05 GMT

pspeer@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu wrote:
: is that it comes up fine but the ATI bus mouse is dead. I have tried using
: "Busmouse    /dev/mouse" in Xconfig, tried mknod /dev/mouse c 10 0, which
: I saw in the FAQ, all to no avail. The mouse is setup to use IRQ2 and works

Use IRQ 5 and mknod /dev/mouse c 10 2

Linux seems to have problems with IRQ2, if I put the WD8003E on IRQ 2,
I cannot specify this interrupt in /usr/src/linux/net/tcp/Space.c,
I have to call it IRQ 9.  As I understand IRQ 2 and IRQ 9 are somewhat
hardwired together on an PC/AT (ISA) and show up as "cascaded" in
several diagnostic programs.

I don't know if the mouse-driver for the busmouse expects IRQ 5,
but I assume that, so you should try to use that one.
(Make sure that you don't have a second LPT on this interrupt
 at the same time.)

-Martin
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: amir@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Guindehi Amir)
Subject: "small" font name in X ?
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:54:32 GMT

Does anybody know the fontname I have to set for "xterm -fn xxx" to get
the "small" font I can choose from the menu appearing when I press
ctrl-right-mouse-button ?
I would like to start my xterm's in my .xinitrc with "small"-font.

THX in advance

- Amir Guindehi

Email : amir@avalon.physik.unizh.ch
        aguindeh@iiic.ethz.ch

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.unix.bsd
From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Xfree86, XS3 Mouse configuration
Reply-To: witr@rwwa.com
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 17:56:12 GMT

RE: Thomas's and Amancio's Bickersons imitation... ***ENOUGH ALREADY***

(P.S., is this reference too americocentric? Or too radiocentric?)

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: tallur@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (kumar.talluri)
Subject: Re: Anyone heard of Pittsburgh Powercomputing?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:38:42 GMT

>In article <2B309924.23C4@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>>This company is listed amongst the companies providing third-party X
>>servers for Univel, right next to the more-familiar MetroLink and SGCS.
>>
>>Who are these guys? Has anyone used their products? And why haven't we
>>heard more about them?

	USL's X server dynamically loads the appropriate drawing libraries
	(ex: vga16, vga256, ATI_ultra, so on) at run time; We call 
	these 'Screen Display Drivers' or SDD's). 
	The 'CORE' X server is the same, irrespective of the card you have. 
	USL provides the 'CORE' X server and two SDD's, (libvga16.so and 
	libvga256.so that support most of the popular VGA/superVGA cards)
	with the foundation set.

	Pittsburg Power sells SDD's for S3 based boards and ATI's Ultra boards. 	They claim about 45K Xstones on S3 (911) and about 85K on ATI's Ultra
	cards. We have a beta copy of their SDD's which are good.
	Hope this helps, good luck,
	kumar

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: amir@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Guindehi Amir)
Subject: Re: "small" font name in X ?
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:13:19 GMT

Solved !
To any newcomers :

Under X11 with xlsfonts you see the installed fonts. Pick one from there.
For the 'small'' font I took :

-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

Greetings

- Amir
From: noah@acsu.buffalo.edu (Philip D. Noah)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Linux problem
Keywords: linux mot
Date: 23 Dec 92 14:13:47 GMT
Organization: UB

I have the linux sls package from tsx-11.mit can someone be so kind as to tell
me how to go about uncompressing it ? thanks.


Philip D. Noah Jr.
SUNY University Center at Buffalo
LAN SYSTEMS
108 Computer Center
Buffalo, Ny 
(716)-645-3508
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler)
Subject: Xterm fonts
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-11112]: thoth
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:15:12 GMT

How do I set the system wide default font for xterm? It must be in
/usr/X386/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm, right? But, where?

BTW, this is a linux system.

Larry
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux
From: craig@spitpa.tscs.com (Craig Anderson)
Subject: Help with Xconfig....
Keywords: X386, STB, Mitsubishi
Organization: Southern Prestressed, Inc.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 16:45:18 GMT



Hello all,

	I have an STB Powergraph ERGO VGA card with 1MB RAM, and
	a Mitsubishi Diamondscan monitor, and a Logitech serial mouse
	attached to /dev/ttys0.  I have been have a HELL of a time trying
	to get them to all work together and get X up and running.

	Here's what I know: (not much)

		My STB has programable dot-clocks that go anywhere from 0-70Mhz.
		The most common rates are 25, 28, 35, 36, 45, 50, 63, 65,
		although the 63 and 65 are pretty rare.  It has a et400 chipset.

		My monitor is a multisync with a maximum horiz refresh of 36Khz,
		and a max vert refresh rate of 90Khz.

	I have ( using the modegen[1,2].sc spreadsheet) gotten Xmono running
	640x480:-(, but when I try setting it to 800x600 or 1024x768 using the
	same settings, I get "not enough video ram for selected resolution"
	messages.  Hhhmmmmmm, my vcard has 1MB on it, and I have used it
	it 1024x768x256 mode B.L. (before Linux :-), so I know the card will
	do it.  I have tried setting the param videoram to 1024 but the
	message persists.  Both the chipset and the amount of vidram appear
	to be self detected correctly when not set in Xconfig.

	I looked in /usr/X386/lib/X11/doc/vga.db and found a listing
	for my card the said that it could be used in 1024x768 mode
	with a 1120x900 virtual screen.

	The following is the Mode.db entry that I got working:
	
		28Mhz     640  640  728  776      480 480 482 493

	I have tried:

		50Mhz    1024 1024 1176 1256      768 772 776 796
		63Mhz    1024 1080 1208 1336      768 772 776 796



                        Thanks,
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: Anyone got XFree86 running on a Trident 9000?
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:57:33 GMT

In article <martin.725621948@marsh> martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas) writes:
>dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
>>raymond@es.ele.tue.nl (Raymond Nijssen) writes:
>>> So here's his question: is the T9000 backward compatible, or does it require
>>> whole new driver for XFree86? Or, did anybody succeed in getting XFree86-1.1
>>> running with this adapter, and if so, what should he do?
>>
>>For reasons we never figured out, we were never able to get the Trident
>>driver working on the 9000 chipset.  I have the tech manuals on both,
>>and it should act like a 512K 8900C, but it doesn't.  Since I don't have
>>a 9000 board (and returned the borrowed 8900C that I used), I haven't
>>pursued it any farther.
>   
>We have a TVGA card that uses the Trident 8800CS chipset (at least that
>what it says on the chip).  Will this card work with XFree86 1.1 ?
>I can't find any documentation to say if it will or not.

It won't work with the colour server.  The 8800 chips do not support
256 colour modes properly.  The mono server should work with the
generic driver (ie, 640x480).

David
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: udalski@astro.Princeton.EDU (Andrzej Udalski)
Subject: xterm window disappears
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:09:03 GMT


We are running Roell's X386 (1.1b) server on ISC 2.2.1. Everything
works fine except that occasionally xterm window disappears spontaneously
with no clear reason. This happens specially often when running telnet
in such a window, also in MicroEmacs in C-mode, when showing the
matching fence ( {,[,( etc. ). The latter problem can be fixed if the time
for which the editor "switches" to the matching fence is set low.

Any ideas about that? Maybe a pointer to another SYSV-compillable telnet?

Andrzej Udalski
Princton University Observatory

udalski@astro.princeton.edu
From: jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: $HOME/Xconfig ???
Date: 27 Dec 92 13:51:12 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland


While reading the docs for XFree86 I noticed that the server first
looks for a config file in the user's own home directory. I'd like to
question the wisdom of this. The Xconfig file does not contain much
you'd want to change on a user basis, but mostly settings dictated by
the hardware on the machine.

In my opinion, the Xconfig file contains settings that are way too
powerful to be let into the hands of ordinary users. You can easily
destroy your monitor by putting in bogus clock frequencies or sync
timings in the file. If you put dial-in access on your computer,
anybody could put fire on your house via modem...

--
Johan Myreen
jem@cs.hut.fi
From: bkuhn@rhlab.UUCP (bmk Bradley Kuhn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: X386 and linux .99; need help with MONO generic VGA
Keywords: linux, X11, X386
Date: 29 Dec 92 12:54:21 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Organization: Baltimore Rh Laboratory, Inc., Maryland


I have SLS distribution of Linux .99 from late December.  The X windows
package (x disks) installed fine, and I followed the instructions on the
SLS readme for configuring to X386mono. (i.e. move Xconfig.mono to Xconfig
and X386mono to X386).  However, when I run startx, it complains that it
can't find any of the SVGA boards.  I want to run generic vga2.  My VGA
is about as generic as one can get.  Are there more things is Xconfig, or
some other configuration file that much be changed before I can run? 

I am very familar with various flavors of Unix, but I have only *used* 
X-windows (i.e. never configured anything for it).  Any help, perhaps a 
point to the correct FAQ (I have exahusted the aid of the SLS and Linux
FAQ's).  

Thank you for you time.


 -- Bradley M. Kuhn    Computer Systems Development, Inc.
     INTERNET: rhlab!bkuhn@uunet.uu.net OR bkuhn@loyola.edu
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From: bkuhn@rhlab.UUCP (bmk Bradley Kuhn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: xload for Xfree386 and linux .99pl17
Keywords: xload, X386, X11, linux
Date: 31 Dec 92 13:54:48 GMT
Organization: Baltimore Rh Laboratory, Inc., Maryland

I know that I have seen this question posted, but I looked on the Linux
and X386 FAQs and couldn't find an answer, nor did I ever see an answer
posted.

Could someone tell me where I could get source and/or binaries for xload
for Xfree386 on Linux .99pl17?  It didn't come with the SLS distribution.

Thanks.


-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Robinson)
Subject: Reinstalled X, now it exits with error # 4.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:59:51 GMT

Im running a 486-33 16meg ram, ATI Vantage "Linux box".  Recently installed
Xwindows again for the 4th time, however now I get error(4), something about
client being killed.  Before it dies the screen gets painted, the clock comes
up but the next xterm and the window manager do not come up.  I commented out
the xterm in .xinitrc and still it crashes, and this is the statement before
twm.  Any clues?

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: dmatic@athena.mit.edu (Davor Matic)
Subject: Re: X386 on Hercules and X386 bugs and suggestions
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:54:58 GMT


I have started "MACROIZING" the mfb code, and am almost done.  It isn't
all that much work.  One needs to change about 15 files all together.
The way I did it, I introduced three macros:

	*MAPW(pdsp) = *MAPR(psrc);

	*MAPRW(pdst) &= ~0L;

This is an example of what they do.  MAPR maps a pointer from a
virtual frame to the physical frame, and can set the WRITE direction
to the bank where pdst points to.  MAPR maps a pointer from a virtual
frame to the physical frame, and can set the READ direction to the
bank where src points to.  MAPRW does the same thing, except for
setting the direction of the bank to READ-WRITE.  I think this should
be general enough to handle VGA boards in mono mode with banking.
For my Hercules card, I need only one sort of MAP's though.

If anyone has done anything similar to mfb, I'd apprechiate some
comments and suggestions on what might go wrong.  I'm not sure 
if this will work, and haven't started debugging yet.  If anyone 
wants to help, you are more than welcome.

Davor
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