Re: tlug: Re: Xconfig problems

[Selva Nair <selva@example.com>]

It seems the video card on fmv-590de is not supported by 
XFree86 -- see 
http://club.pep.ne.jp/~mkhatto/LTGP/linux.make.boxs-1.html
(in Japanese). This could, however, be an outdated writeup.

If by any luck Power 9100 refers to the Weitek Power 9100 chipset, then
it is supported.

Selva

On Mon, 22 May 2000 ulrike@example.com wrote:

>  Thanks for the instructions on how to get rid of xdm, Steve. Unfortunately I am 
>  still having difficulties with configuring X. The following is what I could find 
>  out about my hardware:
>  
>  Computer: Fujitsu FMV-590DE
>  Monitor/Display: Fujitsu FMV-DP842
>  Display Adaptor: Fujitsu Power 9100(FMV-560DE,590DE,590T)
>  
>  sound card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 or AWE-32
>  mouse port:
>  type of mouse: standard PS/2 port mouse (IRQ12)
>  type of graphics card: VGA/SVGA
>  horizontal sync: 31-57
>  vertical sync: 56-73
>  resolution: 1280 x 1024 bit 1677 $BK|?'(B
>  
>  CD-ROM: MATSHITA CD-ROM CR-562
>  keyboard: 106 $BF|K\8l(B (A01) $B%-!<%\!<%I(B(Ctrl+$B1Q(B?)
>  
>  Result of XFree86 SuperProbe (glibc20):
>  	First video: Super-VGA
>  	Chipset: Tseng ET4000 (Port Probed)
>  	Memory: 256 Kbytes
>  	RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-
>  bit mode))
>  
>  
>  Several previous attempts have failed, so this time I tried to work my way up 
>  from the bottom. Since I don(IU(Bt know where the problem is I will list every 
>  choice I made:
>  
>  mouse protocol type? 	4.  PS/2 Mouse
>  enable Emulate3Buttons? 	y
>  Mouse device? 	/dev/mouse # took the default not knowing better ...
>  Keymap? 	1  Standard 101-key, US encoding  # would prefer Japanese, but could 
>  not find ...
>  horizontal sync range?	1  31.5; Standard VGA, 640x480 @ 60 Hz
>  vertical sync range?	1  50-70
>  monitor identifier, vendor name, model name?	(defaults)
>  look at the card database? 	n  # didn't find anything there at last attempt(II(B
>  default screen type?	vga16
>  modify the /etc/X11/Xserver file?	y
>  video memory?	1  256K
>  identifier for your video card definition?	(default)
>  vendor name?	Tseng
>  model (board) name?	ET4000
>  Clockchip setting?	n
>  run 'X -probeonly' now? 	n # led to problems in previous attempts
>  write it to the default location, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config?	y
>  
>  The result were vertical black and white stripes. I could get out of the x 
>  though with ctrl-alt-backspace. 
>  
>  Then I tried the same as before except for:
>  horizontal sync range?	2  31.5 - 35.1; Super VGA, 800x600 @ 56 Hz
>  default screen type?	svga
>  
>  For each depth, a list of modes (resolutions) is defined.  The default
>  resolution that the server will start-up with will be the first listed
>  mode that can be supported by the monitor and card.
>  Currently it is set to:
>  
>  "640x400" for 8bpp
>  "640x480" for 16bpp
>  "640x480" for 24bpp
>  "640x480" for 32bpp
>  
>  5  The modes are OK, continue.
>  
>  This led to monochrome blinking garbage on the screen and no way to get out of 
>  it with ctrl-alt-backspace, I did not know better than to press the reset button  
>  This was also the result of several previous attempts, so I thought I better ask 
>  for help.
>  
>  I don't know whether this is relevant, but when I got the machine it had Windows 
>  installed and the color display was working fine. When I installed debian no 
>  colors showed up even after choosing color display during the basic install. 
>  
>  After several difficulties with cdrom and color display under debian I thought I 
>  might have damaged the hardware when I carried the computer from one table to 
>  another, so I installed Windows again on one partition to test this assumption. 
>  
>  Booting Windows first gave a this colored picture of Windows at startup, then it 
>  switched to monochrome for good. This could be fixed with installing some kind 
>  of driver, but I don't know which driver, unfortunately I did not write it down 
>  and the person who was so nice to install it is not here at the moment. 
>  
>  Interestingly the cdrom that did not work with debian worked again with Windows, 
>  but not the scsi cdrom, but we did not have the right drivers, it came with 
>  Macintosh drivers and a search on the web was without luck. But that is actually 
>  unimportant, since I want to run debian anyway.
>  
>  So does anyone have any idea how to configure this thing? Do I have
>  a
>  
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