From: bwpearre@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Benjamin Weste Pearre)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X Problems (what's new?)
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:27:36 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.linux
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster


First, I'd like to say thank-you to everyone working on this great OS...

			_THANK_YOU_!

Now, the problems...
System: 486/50 EISA (I know, I know...) 16M ram
Mylex SCSI controller
Diamond Stealth (I wanna new one!!!!!!)
Fujitsu 500 Meg HD (300M DOS, 200M Linux)
Lunchbox case...  640x480 gas plasma screen (usually, but I do hook up 
to the monitors of others).
Logitech MouseMan Serial on com1

SLS 1.0, Linuux 0.99.2
I used mkefs /dev/hda4 for the Linux part'n

Now: First, when I boot, Linux sees my disk not as a SCSI, but as
something else.  I know not what.  This is no problem.  The problem is
that the kernel tries to see the disk as a normak Minix partition at
bootup, and to mount it as such, so I get MINIX-fs: magic match
failed.  Then all seems to work fine.  (Aside: When I mount my DOS
partition I do NOT get 'no bmap support' ...huh?)  Well, to get rid of
the Minix-FS problem, do I have to make a normal Minix FS to mount as
/?  Can I change the Linux partition from a normal partition to an
extended partition without scribbling all over the DOS partition?  (so
I can create leetle beety minix-fs ones, or at least 1 to mount as /)
Or is there a better way?

Now, on to X...

When I say startx, I get a screen slightly shifted to the right, and
only about the middle half of my screen vertically.  I usually get a
shell window, and xclock, all right in the upper left corner on top of
each other.  The shell seems to work ok, if I can get the mouse into
it!  The mouse cursor seems to change at random between an X, an
arrow, a text-selector, and a funny square with 3 rectangles inside it
(small!) one of which is filled.  The mouse cursor seems to respond to
the mouse (good) but rather erratically!  It jumps completely at
random at any large motion of the mouse, and if in a shell window it
cuts and pastes at random as well.  This is rather interesting.  :P 
It seems to pay no attention to the buttons.

Well, I have to exit X with <ctrl><alt><backspace>.  Then I get the following..

no SIOCGIFCONF
XFree86 Version 1.0Ya /X Window system
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
   VGA2: generic (mem: 64k numclocks: 2)
      et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, tvga8900, generic
VGA2: generic (mem: 64k numclocks 2)
VGA2: clocks: 25 28
XIO: Fatal IO error 32 (broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
     after 471 requests (471 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
     The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.

waiting for X server to shut down xterm: fatal IO error 32 (broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0" 
XIO: # Here is a repeat of the last XIO error, but with different (smaller) 
     # numbers...  (yes, all 3 lines)

xinit: Interrupted system call (errno 4): Client error.


*** Well, that's the error.  The funny screen size and all are really
interesting, but the mouse is even more so!  :-|

Any help on this one would be _much_ appreciated!

And thanks for all...

Cheers,
	Ben Pearre
	bwpearre@phoenix.princeton.edu