On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:44:07 -0500,
"T. Sean (Theo) Schulze" <71410.25@compuserve.com> wrote:
> >On Sun, 16 Nov 1997 13:13:13 -0500,
> >"T. Sean (Theo) Schulze" <71410.25@compuserve.com> wrote:
> >> Is there a color X server (like Ken's Xmacbsd-960512) that works with the 
> >> 1.3ALPHA X stuff?  (It is such temptation to say "X files" :-)
> >> 
> >> The 1.3ALPHA X server is not a color server, and Xmacbsd-960512 used with 
> >> the 1.3ALPHA files gives me the error message:
> >> 
> >> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
> >> 
> >> I am assuming that this is because I am trying to use an old server with 
> >> newer binaries.
> >
> >No, I don't think so.  Are your grf devices properly configured?
> >Is color grf lkm loaded?
> >
> 
> In /dev I have grf0 through grf3.  I added grf2 and grf3 after reading 
> the part in the FAQ that mentions servers that try to open grf2.  I still 
> get the error message and X dies.  The color lkm that Taras put out would 
> not compile on my system.  gcc complains that it can't find a whole slew 
> of includes.  I couldn't find them either using find, and then I 
> discovered that they are included in the kernel src.  The kernel source 
> was not included in the 1.3_alpha stuff I just installed (/sys is a link 
> to /usr/src/sys, and /usr/src/sys is empty).  Someone here on the list 
> compiled a new video_lkm_combined.o using -current sources and put it at 
> ftp://rosadelsaron.res.cmu.edu/pub/color/.  I am using that as my lkm.  
> Maybe something with that is broken.

Why it doesn't work, I can't say for sure.  Too little information.
Is there any other error message?  You can log the error messages by,
for example, running GNU screen on console, turn on logging, and
startx within the screen session.

Ken