From: bryan@momth3.maths.monash.edu.au (Bryan Seng Hpa)
Subject: HELP! HELP! X386 has got my baby !
Organization: Monash University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 05:02:49 GMT

I'm serious guys

Can anyone out there please help me ?

I am trying to get X386 to work with 386bsd 

My hardware is:

386/SX 25Mhz
4Mb RAM
85 Mb Hard Disk ( + lots more  via NFS)
Tseng Labs Mega Eva/2 video card

X386 doesn't seem to switch the video card into graphics mode - it just hangs.
Can someone suggest what I should put in my Xconfig file or know the fix to this problem ?

Running xdm in debug mode gives the following errors in the xdm-errors file:

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all going smoothly till now ...
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WaitForSomething
DisplayManager._0.systemShell/DisplayManager._0.Shell value /bin/sh
DisplayManager._0.failsafeClient/DisplayManager._0.FailsafeClient value /usr/X386/bin/xterm
DisplayManager._0.userAuthDir/DisplayManager._0.UserAuthDir value /tmp
DisplayManager._0.chooser/DisplayManager._0.Chooser value /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm/chooser
Before XOpenDisplay(:0)
select returns -1.  Rescan: 0  ChildReady: 1
signals blocked, mask was 0x0
Manager wait returns pid: 161 sig 0 core 0 code 4
Display exited with OPENFAILED_DISPLAY, try 0 of 4   <---------- ENTERING BARF MODE !!!!
Manager wait returns pid: 160 sig 10 core 0 code 0
Phoenix server arises, restarting display :0
StartDisplay :0
DisplayManager._0.serverAttempts/DisplayManager._0.ServerAttempts value 1
DisplayManager._0.openDelay/DisplayManager._0.OpenDelay value 15
DisplayManager._0.openRepeat/DisplayManager._0.OpenRepeat value 5
DisplayManager._0.openTimeout/DisplayManager._0.OpenTimeout value 30
DisplayManager._0.startAttempts/DisplayManager._0.StartAttempts value 4
DisplayManager._0.pingInterval/DisplayManager._0.PingInterval value 5
DisplayManager._0.pingTimeout/DisplayManager._0.PingTimeout value 5
DisplayManager._0.terminateServer/DisplayManager._0.TerminateServer value false
DisplayManager._0.grabServer/DisplayManager._0.GrabServer value false
DisplayManager._0.grabTimeout/DisplayManager._0.GrabTimeout value 3
DisplayManager._0.resetSignal/DisplayManager._0.Signal value 1
DisplayManager._0.termSignal/DisplayManager._0.Signal value 15
DisplayManager._0.resetForAuth/DisplayManager._0.ResetForAuth value false
DisplayManager._0.authorize/DisplayManager._0.Authorize value  false
DisplayManager._0.authComplain/DisplayManager._0.AuthComplain value  false
DisplayManager._0.authName/DisplayManager._0.AuthName value MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
DisplayManager._0.authFile/DisplayManager._0.AuthFile value
StartServer for :0
'/usr/bin/X11/X'
Server Started 162
display manager paused til SIGUSR1
DisplayManager._0.resources/DisplayManager._0.Resources value  /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources
DisplayManager._0.xrdb/DisplayManager._0.Xrdb value /usr/X386/bin/xrdb
DisplayManager._0.setup/DisplayManager._0.Setup value  /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
DisplayManager._0.startup/DisplayManager._0.Startup value  /usr/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
DisplayManager._0.reset/DisplayManager._0.Reset value  /usr/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole
DisplayManager._0.session/DisplayManager._0.Session value  /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
DisplayManager._0.userPath/DisplayManager._0.Path value :/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X386/bin:/usr/ucb
DisplayManager._0.systemPath/DisplayManager._0.Path value /etc:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X386/bin:/usr/ucb
DisplayManager._0.systemShell/DisplayManager._0.Shell value /bin/sh
DisplayManager._0.failsafeClient/DisplayManager._0.FailsafeClient value /usr/X386/bin/xterm
DisplayManager._0.userAuthDir/DisplayManager._0.UserAuthDir value /tmp
DisplayManager._0.chooser/DisplayManager._0.Chooser value /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm/chooser
Before XOpenDisplay(:0)
pid: 163
WaitForSomething
select returns -1.  Rescan: 0  ChildReady: 1
signals blocked, mask was 0x0
Manager wait returns pid: 163 sig 0 core 0 code 4
Display exited with OPENFAILED_DISPLAY, try 1 of 4
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keeps re-trying then gives up ...
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select returns -1.  Rescan: 0  ChildReady: 1
signals blocked, mask was 0x0
Manager wait returns pid: 167 sig 0 core 0 code 4
Display exited with OPENFAILED_DISPLAY, try 3 of 4
Manager wait returns pid: 166 sig 10 core 0 code 0
Zombie server reaped, removing display :0
WaitForSomething
Shutting down entire manager
select returns -1.  Rescan: 0  ChildReady: 0
Nothing left to do, exiting

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Bryan

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