X11 configuration

Michael George yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun Sep 14 15:54:01 2003


Sorry...  This is on a B&W G3 with 384MB RAM, and a new 20GB HDD.  IIRC, the
problem started after I did the open firmware reset nvram thing to "fix" my
booting problem.

I've tried rebooting to OS 9.2.2 to see if that would set anything, and that
didn't help...

Thanks!

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:48:36PM -0400, Michael George wrote:
> Somehow, my XF86Config from install got all loused up.  I have tried
> Xautoconfig, but that sets my system to unknown-unknown.  Resolution is good,
> but the color is 8 bit.
> 
> So I ran the Display settings from the YDL pulldown and under Advanced it was
> able to detect the card (though I had to manually set the RAM to 16MB) and the
> monitor.  I saved the settings.
> 
> Restarting X, I get the error: "(EE) R128(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (5)" followed
> by a bunch of (probably meaningless) unresolved reference messages.
> 
> I cannot find the utility that the install used (xf86config4?) to configure
> X11 to try to fix it.
> 
> My booting problem seems to have healed.  I don't know how...  But now I'm
> stuck on this one...
> 
> Thanks!
> -Michael
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