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Mr. Maguire, can you read this?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lance Cummings)
Sun Nov 3 20:32:54 1996
From: "Lance Cummings" <lance@iac.co.jp>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:26:51 +0900
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Mr. Maguire,
I tried responding by email, but my SMTP program just doesn't
like your email address, or there's some other problem. :(
Here's the message I tried to send:
From: "Lance Cummings" <lance@iac.co.jp>
To: maguire@wiley.holbrook.k12.az.us
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:19:14 +0900
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Subject: Re: startx command puts my system to sleep
Priority: normal
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a)
Mr. Maguire,
I sure appreciate the help. I figured this was a configuration
mistake, but I'll be darned if I can figure out how I misconfigured
it.
I'm looking at the "manual" for the video card that came with
my Gateway2000 tower in July of '95. It says ATI GX Mach 64 on the
cover, so that's the video card I selected. The "manual" (Gateway
sells good stuff at reasonable prices, but they skimp on the docs.)
says the card can do 1280 x 1024 up to 75Hz and up to 256 colors. I
suppose I should worry about the "up to" part, right? <g> It also
gives 1024 x 768 at up to 100Hz and 65k colors. 800 x 600 comes in at
up to 100Hz and 16 million colors. Ditto for 640 x 480. I've got 2
megs of VRAM on the card, upgradable to 4 megs.
The specifications page in the monitor "manual" is not very satisfying
for me, either. I'm familiar with "refresh rate", but this "manual"
doesn't state clearly -- at least to me -- what the refresh rate for
this monitor. It says: resolution = 1280 x 1024 non interlaced;
colors = unlimited; scanning freq = horizontal, 30 to 68KHz ...
vertical, 50 to 100KHz; standard picture size 300mm x 220mm.
It's the ranges in the scanning that I don't understand. I am
guessing that the horizontal number and the vertical number are
somehow combined to get the "refresh rate", but I am only guessing
about this. Even if I'm right <g>, I have no idea how to do the
calculation. And I am also guessing that a range is given because the
number depends on the resolution used. But what numbers for what
resolution, the manual doesn't seem to say.
I would love to setup MetroX. That's what I've been trying to
configure. I did install it from the cd.
Can you explain RAMDAC for me. I'm afraid I don't know the
meaning of this acronym.
Thanks so much for responding to my plea. I'm afraid I'm quite
ignorant about Linux at this point. I've invested in a number of
tomes, but I find they often lack the answers to the questions I
really need answers for.
Eagerly anticipating your response,
Best,
Lance
> > Lance
> What Xwindows server are you using? MetroX, Xfree, etc. You have
> clearly selected the wrong video card chipset, RAMDAC, or surpassed
> the frequency refresh rate of your monitor. What does your monitor
> refresh go to. Will it go to 72Hz? You will have to change some
> parameters in your X configuration file, whatever that might be. I
> will try to help you if you can supply some answers to these
> questions. -- William P. Maguire, Network Administrator
> Director of Computer Services Holbrook School District #3
> mailto:maguire@wiley.holbrook.k12.az.us
And here's the error message from Pegasus:
From: Mail Delivery System <>
To: Self
Subject: Mail Delivery Failure.
Date sent: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:20:15
Delivery has failed on the enclosed message for the following
reasons reported either by the mail delivery system on the mail
relay host or by the local TCP/IP transport module:
*** TCP/IP error while processing job ***
A network error has occurred while WinPMail attempted to send
your message. This error could be caused by many conditions,
including the following:
* The remote host may have gone down.
* Your network may have been broken or gone down.
* You may have a configuration problem in your WINSOCK.DLL.
* If running on a SLIP line, you may have experienced a
timeout (increase the value in WinPMail's Network Config.
Dialog), or the phone line may have gone down or suffered
from excessive line noise.
WinPMail will requeue your message and try again later.
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