Subject: Retina X servers
To: None <amiga-x@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Dave R. Madsen <madsen@cs.iastate.edu>
List: amiga-x
Date: 04/11/1994 12:58:43
I purchased a Retina (the original Zorro II version) last week and
while the Retina console works great, I have been having trouble
finding an X server that will work with it.
First I tried using the xretina.tar.gz package which is on
ftp.eunet.ch in contrib/bsd/X11, but that server gives me a
segmentation fault immediately after it is executed. I then tried
the new XRetinaZ2 archive that was put into incoming. The Xconfig that
came with this server defined a screen mode that my monitor was unable to
reproduce, so I used DefineMonitor under amigados to create
one that should work. This X server starts up fine, but
the screen is offset majorly down and to the right and flickers
horribly, making it unusable. The new Xconfig that I created is
listed below:
; 800x600, 8 bit, 37878 Hz, 60 Hz
ID 781859636 FQ 80000000 MD 0 FLG 4
SW 800 SH 600 MW 800 MH 600
HBS 201 HSS 202 HSE 219 HBE 260 HT 259
VBS 601 VSS 602 VSE 612 VBE 628 VT 628
This monitor defination works fine when using the "test" gadget under
AmigaDOS, but produces the strange, contorted screen described above
when trying to use it with XRetinaZ2.
I am using the kernel created by the April 10th tar file of the src/sys
tree on sun-lamp. Does anyone have a working X server using the
Retina board? If so, what Xconfig and version of the kernel/libraries
are you using? I purchased this board specifically for X under
netbsd so any help/advice/tips you can give me would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave (madsen@cs.iastate.edu)
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