[SuSE Linux] persistent X Prob

30 Jun 1999

      hi all,

Just to clarify some things to me:
The configfile for X is /etc/XF86Config, right?
The DAC is not a short word for Clockchip?

In my case, this file contained 2 screen sections, one SVGA and one ACCEL.
Sax created both of these entries.
Will X use the first one in the list or will X select the "better" one by
itself?
What does "mach64ProgramClkmach64CT: Warning: Q < 10.66666667" try to tell
me? i get this evry time i switch between console and X.
Isn't Clk short for clock?
what does "(--) Mach64: PCI (92) and CONFIG_CHIP_ID (124) don't agree on
ChipRev, using PCI value" mean? Does it mean, i have selected the wrong
Chipset? 
where can i get documentation on what the options in the "Expert" window
for card setup in sax mean, for ex: hw_cursor ?

these are questions, that evolved when i tried to resolve my problem
already laid bare in a previous post. i will append it, just in case
something comes up.
Thanks already for all the help i had :)
 Alex
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From rost0005@stud.uni-sb.de Wed Jun 30 22:01:53 1999
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:09:17 +0200
From: Robert Alexander Stragies <rost0005@stud.uni-sb.de>
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Subject: X problem
Hi people,
I have a problem, that is costing me quite some headache...
My box features an onboard ATI 3d rage pro chip. It works absolutely fine
under windows. I can get X running, but i notice, that when i scroll text
or images, my cpu- 0oes bam up to 100% as long as i'm scrolling. X
generaly seems a little sluggish, even compared to the known redmond
ressource hog. (I have a 266mhz box with 96 M's of RAM)

A friend pointed out to me , that i may have not set the clockchip
correctly, so that X would fall back to some foolproof default. Since i
can only see on chip saying ATI on it, i either presume it's built into
the main graphix chip, or carrying some other name...

Also, when i look into my xfree config file, it has two entries: one SVGA
and one ACCEL entry. Could it be, that i have two Xservers installed, of
whom the first one in the list (SVGA) is called? Would that mean, that i
can delete the SVGA entries, and X will then use the ACCEl server?
Is there a way to find out, which server i am currently running, and which
version of XFree is installed?

Is there a way to specify the Xserver to be used at the command line, for
ex: startx afterstep -srv ACCEL , or something to that extent, so that i
can still use the svga Xserver, in case something goes really bad?

What advantages do you have, if you upgrade to newer versions of Xfree?
And, how do I uninstall the old xfree, in order to install the new one, if
that would be the recommended path to take?

Thanks already, 
        Alex

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