On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Anne Bennett wrote:

# I'm been upgrading my software and hardware piece by piece over the
# past few weeks, and this afternoon I successfully upgraded to 1.5.2
# on my Pentium I.  Everything seemed to be fine.  This evening, I moved
# the hard disk into another machine, a Pentium III with an integrated
# video controller, and now I have a tiny little problem with X: the
# root window never seems to redraw, so anything that has been drawn
# there remains until it is overwritten by some other application's
# window.  Dragging an xterm across the screen makes an impressive
# looking pattern of repeated frames. :-)  "xsetroot" has no effect.

Make sure you start X with -depth 16 or -depth 24; 8-bit is horrid
on a TNT2 (says the other TNT2 owner).

# The video controller is identified by the kernel as "vga1 at pci1 dev
# 0 function 0: Nvidia Corporation Aladdin TNT2 (rev. 0x20)".  I picked
# the XF86_SVGA server for it.  I append what the X server says.

Run xf86config.  You'll thank yourself for it in the morning.

# Other oddities: the icons show up as just a shape with the icon's
# background color -- hmm, I opened and closed one, and it turned black,
# but I dragged it around, and after it went behind another window and
# came back out, it went back to its background color.  And I can use
# control-alt-Fn to change to another console, but ctl-alt-F1 gives me
# the "text window" (X server messages); I must use ctl-alt-F5 to get
# the actual X display back -- I can't remember if that's normal, but I
# think that ctl-alt-F1 used to get me back to the X display.

That's correct; if you wish to use ctl-alt-F1, you must edit /usr/X11R6/
lib/X11/xdm/Xservers (if you're using xdm) to start up on vt01, and turn
off the getty on console/ttyE0.

#  My
# "mclock" is not showing up properly either.  Konqueror is kind of
# flakey: some things show up, some don't.
#
# My xterms work very nicely, though, so I am able to get some work done!
#
# I can't help but think that one of the "XAA" (acceleration?) options
# mentioned in the printout below is defaulting to the wrong thing, but
# which one, and how to fix it, I don't know.  I'd appreciate if some
# kind X guru would save me "a week in the library" and tell me what is
# wrong with my X configuration!

Try the above; how do you start X?  Do you use xdm or startx?

# Anne.
# --
# Ms. Anne Bennett, Senior Analyst, IITS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8
# anne@alcor.concordia.ca                                        +1 514 848-7606
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# XFree86 Version 3.3.6a / X Window System
# (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
# Release Date: November 30 2000
# 	If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
# 	than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
# 	problems.  (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
# Operating System: NetBSD/i386 1.5.2 [ELF] The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
# Configured drivers:
#   SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 1):
#       NV1, STG2000, RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, RIVA ULTRA TNT2,
#       RIVA VANTA, RIVA ULTRA VANTA, RIVA INTEGRATED, GeForce 256,
#       GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 GTS (rev1),
#       GeForce2 Ultra, Quadro 2 Pro, GeForce2 MX, GeForce2 MX DDR,
#       Quadro 2 MXR, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, ET4000W32i_rev_b,
#       ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a, ET4000W32p_rev_b,
#       ET4000W32p_rev_c, ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, ET6100, et3000, pvga1,
#       wd90c00, wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, r128, ati,
#       sis86c201, sis86c202, sis86c205, sis86c215, sis86c225, sis5597,
#       sis5598, sis6326, sis530, sis620, sis300, sis630, sis540, tvga8200lx,
#       tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga8900d, tvga9000,
#       tvga9000i, tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi, tgui9420, tgui9420dgi,
#       tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320, tgui9660, tgui9680, tgui9682,
#       tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388, cyber9397, cyber9520,
#       cyber9525, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, cyber9397dvd, blade3d, cyberblade,
#       clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428, clgd5429, clgd5430,
#       clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480, clgd5462, clgd5464, clgd5465,
#       clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd7541, clgd7542, clgd7543,
#       clgd7548, clgd7555, clgd7556, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e, cpq_avga, mga2064w,
#       mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag200, mgag100, mgag400,
oti067,
#       oti077, oti087, oti037c, al2101, ali2228, ali2301, ali2302, ali2308,
#       ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7, ark1000vl, ark1000pv,
#       ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek, s3_virge, AP6422, AT24, AT3D,
#       s3_savage, s3_svga, NM2070, NM2090, NM2093, NM2097, NM2160, NM2200,
#       ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546,
#       ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct65555, ct68554, ct69000, ct64200,
#       ct64300, mediagx, V1000, V2100, V2200, p9100, spc8110, i740, i740_pci,
#       Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, smi, generic
# Using wscons driver (version 3.32)
# XF86Config: /etc/XF86Config
# (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
# (**) XKB: keycodes: "xfree86"
# (**) XKB: types: "default"
# (**) XKB: compat: "default"
# (**) XKB: symbols: "us(pc101)"
# (**) XKB: geometry: "pc"
# (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
# (**) XKB: model: "pc101"
# (**) XKB: layout: "us"
# (**) XKB: options: "ctrl:nocaps"
# (**) Mouse: type: wsmouse, device: /dev/mouse, resolution: 100
# (**) Mouse: buttons: 3
# (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "Primary Card"
# (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: "Hitachi SuperScan 20S"
# (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
# (--) SVGA: PCI: NVidia Riva Integrated rev 32, Memory @ 0xde000000, 0xd2000000
# (--) SVGA: chipset:  RIVA INTEGRATED
# (--) SVGA: videoram: 24448k
# (**) SVGA: Option "dac_8_bit"
# (**) SVGA: Using 8 bits per color component
# (**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 888
# (--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 350.000 MHz
# (**) SVGA: Mode "1152x90085": mode clock =  85.000
# (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1152x900
# (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024
# (--) SVGA: RIVA INTEGRATED: Using hardware cursor
# (--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture)
# (--) SVGA: XAA: Solid filled rectangles
# (--) SVGA: XAA: Screen-to-screen copy
# (--) SVGA: XAA: 8x8 color expand pattern fill
# (--) SVGA: XAA: Using 9 128x128 areas for pixmap caching
# (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipples
# (--) SVGA: XAA: Horizontal and vertical lines and segments
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------



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