[vox-tech] Xwindows problem
Henry House
vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:06:05 -0800
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On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 07:46:54PM -0800, Eric Nelson wrote:
> On Sunday 20 January 2002 04:01 pm, you wrote:
> > Keywords: X, XFree86, XF86Config, XConfigurator, ct69000, embedded syst=
em
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> Thanks for the reply. =20
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> Since the last posting, I upgraded to 4.1.0. Now, X won't even come up. =
I=20
> have the correct values for my terminal. It looks like the system thinks=
=20
> there is only 256K on the card, and it can't find a mode, even not enough=
ram=20
> for 320x200, so it fails.
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> It could be a bios problem, this is a custom system, built for a specific=
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> project, and an early version of the bios. I started to think that I cou=
ld=20
> by a new cpu board and have something that works for all the hours I'm=20
> putting in. So I don't want to waste peoples time, until I have a proble=
m=20
> that is real, at least. :~).
Okay, but you might as well try explicitly declaring the amount of video RAM
in the configuration file. Example from my /etx/X11/XF86Config-4:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "glint"
VideoRam 8192
EndSection =20
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