Subject: Problems with NetBSD, Xamiga24 and Picasso II
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ralph Seichter <ZODIAC@darkness.gun.de>
List: amiga-x
Date: 05/25/1995 18:40:51
I'm having difficulties with Xamiga24, which I installed as described (the
link from X to Xamiga24 exists). When I run startx, Xamiga24 and fvwm are
launched, but most of the time I get only a plain white screen. When I move
the mouse pointer to an "invisible" xterm window, I can execute 'toggle',
which brings me to the ECS screen and back. Every once in a while, Xamiga24
starts up properly and I can work normally, but when I quit fvwm and run
startx again, I stare at the blank screen once more. :(

Any ideas? I'm using NetBSD 1.0 from the Meeting Pearls II CD-ROM, with a
kernel 'netbsd.picasso-171194'. I created /dev/grf3 (grf1 does still exist,
as 'ln -s /dev/grf3 /dev/grf1 didn't seem to help), and xserverrc looks
like this:

----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------
# this is for the special Xamiga24 Xserver, but don't forget to
# link Xamiga24 -> X
#
# you need to edit the Xservers in this directory:
# rename the 'X' in this file to /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xscript
#
#  MODE 4   640x480 63Hz@31khz
#  MODE 5   640x480 76Hz@38kHz
#  MODE 6   800x600 50Hz@31kHz
#  MODE 7  1024x768 61Hz@38kHz
#  MODE 8  1024x768 69Hz@59kHz
#  MODE 9  1152x900 60.5Hz@56kHz
#  MODE 10 1280x1024 95Hz@51.9kHz
#  MODE 11 1184x848 82Hz@73kHz
#  MODE 12 1280x1024 60Hz@64kHz
#
# uncomment '#' in the following line to use this for the special Xamiga24 Xserver

X -mode 7 -dev /dev/grf3
----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------

Here's my xinitrc:

----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------
#!/bin/sh
######################################################################

userresources=~/.Xresources
globresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xresources

userkmap=~/.Xmodmap
globkmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/german.xmodmaprc

######################################################################

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    (sleep 1; exec xrdb -merge $userresources) &
else
    if [ -f $globresources ]; then
        (sleep 1; exec xrdb -merge $globresources) &
    fi
fi

if [ -f $userkmap ]; then
    (sleep 2; exec xmodmap $userkmap) &
else
    if [ -f $globkmap ]; then
        (sleep 2; exec xmodmap $globkmap) &
    fi
fi

(sleep 3; exec xterm -ls) &
(sleep 40; exec xswarm -t 120) &

exec fvwm
----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------

Any help would be appreciated!

	MfG,	Ralph
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