Re: neomagic & slackware 8.0

[jayjwa <jayjwa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Karol Tarasiuk wrote:

+ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:16:58 +0100
+ From: Karol Tarasiuk <karoltarasiuk@xxxxx>
+ Reply-To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx
+ To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx
+ Subject:  neomagic & slackware 8.0

+ Hello! + My name is Karol and I'm from Poland. I have problems with 
running Xfree86 on my computer. There is one error: no screens found. I 
have laptop with active matrix, and NeoMagic graphic card. I don't know 
what to do. Please help me. I don't know how to configure Xfree86. Thanks.


First, I'd update your linux & X11. Slackware is past ver. 10 now: lots of 
important updates. XFree86 is stable ver. 4.4.0. Once you have it all 
installed, you need a good working config file. The hardest part is likely
the config file: here's an example (mine):

# --------------------------------------------------
# Configuration file for X Window XFree86 4.4.0
# using S3_Virge card driver
# --------------------------------------------------

Section "Module"
    SubSection  "extmod"
    EndSubSection
    Load        "type1"
    Load        "freetype"
    Load        "speedo"
    Load        "glx"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
    ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier	"Keyboard1"
    Driver	"Keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier	"Mouse1"
    Driver	"mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "PS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons"	"on"
    Option "Emulate3Timeout"    "50"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "My Monitor"
    HorizSync   31.5 - 50.0
    VertRefresh 40-90
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "S3 ViRGE"
    Driver     "s3virge"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "S3 ViRGE"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
   DefaultDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "Simple Layout"
    Screen "Screen 1"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection



Change the sections to fit you setup, for example instead of my

Section "Device"
    Identifier "S3 ViRGE"
    Driver     "s3virge"
EndSection

you'd probably have something like this:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Neo Magic"
    Driver     "neomagic"
EndSection


The "Files" section will point to your paths, which will probably be quite 
similar to mine, since this is also a Slackware linux w/XFree86. 
The mouse depends on which kind of mouse you've got, and if it has 2 or 3 
buttons; if 2, you can make 3 buttons with emulation (see the mouse 
section above). The monitor & screen section- you need the specifications 
from your monitor for those. I didn't have mine anymore, so I had to 
guess; I must've guessed right. ;)

You can also have the server try to make one:

XFree86 -configure

Hope that helps. Oh, and read the documention & man pages.


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