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:
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# 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
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Here's my xinitrc:
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#!/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
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Any help would be appreciated!
MfG, Ralph
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