Subject: Re: X11 on a Quadra 700, anyone?
To: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/15/1997 14:03:12
Hauke Fath wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> see subject line.  ;)
> 
> For a long time X on the Quadra 700 seemed to be possible only with
> specially patched kernels. Has this changed for 1.3?
> 
> On my machine (onboard video, 2MB VRAM, a dumped DEC VRT19-HA monitor) the
> X server (1.2G) spits out (grf0 is configured)
> 
> 	Screen 0 at 0x41f0000, 1152 by 870, rowB 576, fbbase 0.
> 
> and fills a strip of roughly 1/6 the screen width with the standard X
> desktop pattern. No mouse cursor.
> 
> Any ideas, anyone?

Have you tried other (i.e. smaller) resolutions?  You are booting in B&W
mode, right?  How old is the kernel that you're currently using?  I know
there have been some changes during the 1.2G timeframe, but I haven't
actually tried X on my internal video.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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