[SLUG] X Windows

[Adams, Jamie]

> 
> With the PCI Grahpics Card SaX2 seemed to configure things OK but when
the
> command startx was given things would hang with an almost black
screen.
> 
> The command lspci gave me the graphics card details as a vga S3 inc
> trio32/64 V+ card.  The command sax2 -p was supposed to tell me if a
> driver
> was installed, it wasn't.  I have surfed the net to find a driver and
i
> have
> discovered that the card is pants.   So i have digged out an isa
graphics
> card, everything booted up ok.    

What card do you have installed now?

> Running the command sax2 -p again
> returned
> the response:
> 
> Chip 0 is --> Unclassified Graphics   00:01 0x1234 0x5678 NUL fbdev
> 
> running the command sax2 returned the response:
> 
> SaX: sorry your Kernal is not in framebuffer mode...  abort
> 
> Running the command startx returned the following output WITHOUT
crashing:
> 
> XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510)
> Release Date: 2 June 2001
>  If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
>  newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
>  reporting problems.  (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
> Build Operating System: SuSE Linux [ELF] SuSE
> Module Loader present
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu Mar 13 16:53:46
2003
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
> Parse error on line 1 of section (null) in file /etc/X11/XF86Config
>  "" is not a valid keyword in this section.
> (EE) Problem parsing the config file
> (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found

This here basically means that it wasn't able to initialise the driver,
whatever it is.

> 
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages.
> This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
> Please report problems to feedback at suse.de.
> 
> At least its not crashing now but what can i do now?  How do i restore
> framebuffer mode?  this might help i'm guessing of course as i don't
have
> a
> clue what i'm waffling on about!!

Framebuffer support has to be compiled into your kernel as far as I
know. It may be that you already have it compiled in and just need to
activate it by putting a line similar to "vga=791" (1024x768)in your
lilo or grub config. If you are running lilo you need to run 'lilo' at
the boot prompt to activate your changes.

If after this you bootup to a black screen with no text, you probably
don't have support built into your kernel and will need to recompile.

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.2 gives a little
more information.

> 

> Mark

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