Entering Linux (X-Window Configuration Guide)
2000-09-02 18:44
Publisher: NetBull Readings: 373 Installing the Facade for Linux - X-WINDOW Configuration Guide X-WINDOW is a graphical interface that is popular in Unix, now it has been successfully transplanted to the Linux platform, install X-window this A beautiful facade, you will definitely let Linux will hurt. Its biggest feature is that the device is independent. You can immediately go to work with XF86Config after installation of linux. First of all, I have to prepare the information, I put the instructions for the display and graphics card in the case, because when setting X-WINDOW, you must know the vertical and horizontal scan frequency, the main chip of the graphics card, the memory size, DAC chip and clock chip. model. After running XF86Cofnig, there is not an important thing in the previous few pictures, press Enter until the place where the mouse is set! On the screen: First Specify A Mouse Protocol Type. Choose One from The Following List: 1. Microsoft Compatible (2-Button Protocol) 2. Mouse Systems (3-Button Protocol) 3. Bus Mouse 4. PS / 2 Mouse 5. Logitech Mouse (Serial, Old Type, Logitech Protocol) 6. Logitech Mouseman (Microsoft Compatible) 7. MM Series 8. MM HitTableTable believes that everyone knows that your own love should choose one? If your mouse can be 2-button Sign with 3 key, it is recommended that you use 3 keys because the third key is used under X-WINDOW. In addition, Logitech's mouse should generally choose six. My little mouse, the most common, choose 2. Next, I will ask some questions. When I ask if I have to start the 3-button mouse, I will choose "Y", and the other according to my experience will be available. Until the screen appears: please answer the following Question with Either y or n. Do you want to enable these bindings for the alt key? To set the keyboard's Alt key, press Enter or enter "Y".
Then the screen: It is VERY IMPORTANT that you do not specify a monitor type with a horizontal sync range that is beyond the capabilities of your monitor If in doubt, choose a conservative setting hsync in kHz; monitor type with characteristic modes 1 31.5.. Standard VGA, 640x480 @ 60 Hz 2 31.5 - 35.1; Super VGA, 800x600 @ 56 Hz 3 31.5, 35.5; 8514 Compatible, 1024x768 @ 87 Hz Interlaced (No 800x600) 4 31.5, 35.15, 35.5; Super VGA, 1024x768 @ 87 Hz Interlaaced, 800x600 @ 56 HZ 5 31.5 - 37.9; Extended Super VGA, 800x600 @ 60 Hz 640x480 @ 72 HZ 6 31.5 - 48.5; Non-Interlaaced Svga, 1024x768 @ 60 Hz, 800x600 @ 72 Hz 7 31.5 - 57.0; high; high; Frequency svga, 1024x768 @ 70 HZ 8 31.5 - 64.3; Monitor That Can do 1280x1024 @ 60 HZ 9 31.5 - 79.0; Monitor That Can do 1280x1024 @ 74 HZ 10 Enter Your @ 74 HZ 10 Enter Your Choice (1-10): Let You select the horizontal scan frequency of the monitor if you have a monitor manual, select it according to the instructions, or select yourself. If there is no manual, select 5 is relatively appropriate. The next step is to set the vertical scanning frequency: You must indicate the vertical sync range of your monitor You can either select one of the predefined ranges below that correspond to industry-standard monitor types, or give a specific range For interlaced modes,.. The Number That Count 50-90 3 50-70 2 50-90 3 50-100 4 40-150 5 ENTER Your Own Vertical Sync Range Similarly, based on the book, or choose 5. If there is no manual, select 2 is generally no problem. Then, it will ask your monitor manufacturers and models, just enter your input. Simply, all the way, get it.
The screen appears on the screen: Do you want to look at the card database? (Press Y, list the graphics database) 0 S3 TRIO64V 1 ... here will list nearly 400 hundred graphics cards your choice. VGA16 is suitable for most display cards, only 16 colors; SVGA applies most of the SVGA display cards, such as Trident; 8900 & 9400, Cirrus Logic, C & T, ET4000, etc., there are different display cards can be used first; Mach8 applies ATI Mach8 chip; Mach32 is suitable for ATI using Mach32 chip; Mach64 is suitable for ATI using Mach64 chip; 8514 Applicable to Most of the chip for Most of S3; AGX applies most of the XGA display cards. When you can't find the type of match, you can choose the generic VGA compatible card. Below is letting us choose your own X server, this option is sure to choose. 1 The XF86_Mono server. This is a monochrome server that should work on any VGA-compatible card, in 640x480 (more on some SVGA chipsets). 2 The XF86_VGA16 server. This is a 16-color VGA server that should work on any VGA- compatible card 3 The XF862_SVGA server This is a 256 color SVGA server that supports aa number of SVGA chipsets It is accelerated on some Cirrus and WD chipsets;.... it supports 16/32-bit color on certain Cirrus configurations 4 The accelerated servers . These include XF86_S3, XF86_Mach32, XF86_Mach8, XF86_8514, XF86_P9000, XF86_AGX, XF86_W32 and XF86_Mach64. These four server types correspond to the four different "Screen" sections in XF86Config (vga2, vga16, svga, accel). Which one of these screen types Do you intend to run by default (1-4)? If the user's display card is the S3 / Mach32 / Mach8 / 8514 / P9000 / AGX / W32 / S3 Virge series, you can choose your own server in the fourth option. Otherwise, only 3, using 256 colors. If the option 3 can't start X-window normally, then you only have 2, enjoy the ugly 16 colors, or only change the graphics card. Next it will ask you to do nothing. Please select "Y".
Please answer the following Question with each me to set the symbolic link? Then it asks you: do you want to set it IN / var / x11r6 / bin? Is it a deposit? Of course, I will answer Y. Semism: How much video memory do you have other youro card: 1 256k 2 512K 3 1024K 4 2048k 5 4096k 6 Other Enter Your Choice: My graphics card has 2MB of memory, so I choose 4. Then the manufacturer and model of the graphics card, just give it a few English words. Next is the set of Ramdac Chip ... The Ramdac Setting Only Applies to the S3 and AGX Servers. Some Ramdacs Are Auto-Detected by The Server. The Detection of a Ramdac Is Forced by Using A Ramdac "Identifier" Line in The Device section The identifiers are shown at the right of the following table of RAMDAC types:. 1 AT & T 20C490 (S3 server) att20c490 2 AT & T 20C498 / 21C498 / 22C498 (S3) att20c498 3 AT & T 20C505 (S3) att20c505 4 BrookTree BT481 (AGX) bt481 5 BrookTree bT482 (AGX) bt482 6 BrookTree bT485 / 9485 (S3) bt485 7 Sierra SC15025 (S3, AGX) sc15025 8 S3 GenDAC (86C708) (autodetected) s3gendac 9 S3 SDAC (86C716) (autodetected) s3_sdac 10 STG-1700 (S3) STG1700 11 TI 3020 (S3) TI3020 12 TI 3025 (S3) TI3025 13 Normal DAMAL JUST PRESS ENTER IF YOUT WANT A RAMDAC SETTING. What RAMDAC SETTING DO You Want (1-13)? There is instructions, you can Instructions, no choice 13 or you can jump this step by pressing the carriage return.
Down is the most annoying Clock chip set:. A Clockchip line in the Device section forces the detection of a programmable clock device With a clockchip enabled, any required clock can be programmed without requiring probing of clocks or a Clocks line. Most cards dont have a programmable clock chip Choose from the following list:. 1 Chrontel 8391 (uncertain at the time of writing) ch8391 2 ICD2061A and compatibles (ICS9161A, DCS2824) icd2061a 3 ICS2595 ics2595 4 ICS5342 (similar to SDAC, but not completely compatible) ics5342 5 S3 GenDAC (86C708) and ICS5300 (autodetected) s3gendac 6 S3 SDAC (86C716) s3_sdac 7 Sierra sC11412 sc11412 8 TI 3025 ti3025 Just press enter if you dont want a Clockchip setting. What Clockchip setting do you want (1- 8? Pay attention to the screen, appear on the screen: do you want me to run x-probeonly now? Be sure to press Y, otherwise it will not automatically detect the clock frequency of the graphics card.
The final step is to select the display mode: For each depth, a list of modes (resolutions) is defined The default resolution that the server will start-up with will be the first listed mode that can be supported by the monitor and card Currently it is.. SET TO: "640 × 480" "800 × 600" "1024 × 768" 1280 × 1024 "for 8bpp" 640 × 480 "" 800 × 600 "" 1024 × 768 "for 16bpp" 640 × 480 "800 × 600 "for 32bpp Note that 16bpp and 32bpp are only supported on a few configurations. Modes that can not be supported due to monitor or clock constraints will be automatically skipped by the server. 1 Change the modes for 8pp (256 colors) 2 Change the modes For 16bpp (32k / 64k colors) 3 Change The Modes for 32bpp (24-bit color) 4 The Modes Are OK, Continue. Enter Your Choice: After making a selection, you will set the default resolution, and it is recommended to set it to 640 × 480 . When the above text occurs, select 4 or directly Enter, and then the screen prompt: Shall I Write It to / etc / xf86config? Enter Y, set the result store. Finally, it is really laborious. When you are thrilling, enter StartX. If you see beautiful X-Window, then congratulate you very much. Otherwise, it is really tragic world: - <, heroes, please come back, according to the above introduction, it will be equipped. In addition, the Red Hat 5.1 version of Linux provides a X-Server configuration program for a graphical interface, as long as you enter XConfigurator, you can call, but please pay attention to case, you can't do it! In the slumware version 3.5, the corresponding program name is XF86Setup. In fact, X-WINDOW consists of two parts: X Server and Window Manager. Above we are configured to X servers, we should also learn to change the face for X-window to truly we want to install your own Linux. The X server only manages how to display a graphical interface, how to respond to keyboards and mouse inputs, but it does not provide user interface. Window Manager provides a user interface based on the X server. This division makes the development of the X server concentrate on increasing the overall performance of X, and the people who develop window managers will concentrate on beautify the interface. It is because of this, the same is X-window, you can choose window manager according to your favorite, that is, the user interface. The popular window manager is now: FVWM, FVWM95, AFTERSTEP, EnLightenment, KDE. I use the Red Hat Linux 5.1 installation version, select FVWM as the X-WINDOW window manager.
FVWM is the earliest one of the X-WINDOW window manager, with the interface as shown in Figure 1. FVWM95 is evolved from FVWM, just like Win95, the FVWM is available. I think the name of FVWM95 is related to Win95! Its interface is shown in Figure 2, Figure 3. You can find its RPM installation package in the B disk of the installation CD, install it with rpm. Afterstep is a very beautiful window manager. As shown in Figure 4, in Figure 5, it has gorgeous icons and interfaces, and all icons are three-dimensional, and the condition is a video acceleration card with 2M memory. If you are interested in it, start your "cat", target mango.sfasu.edu/ ~frank/afterstep. Installation is very simple, log in to the Ultimate Root Login System, get the retrieved file to Linux, expand in a directory. Then run installme to determine if the installation will ask if you use a 64K color display mode. If your graphics card meets the requirements, you must choose (Y), otherwise only 256 colors, true ugly: - <. Then enter the list of allowable users, each user is separated, up to ten. After the parameter is input, the installation will be automatically performed, so you can enjoy it. :-P Enlighteenment is more mysterious than afterstep, and the Chinese horror is its unique style. I really endorsed the online legend: Afterstep is an angel, Enlightenment is the devil. Don't believe you look at Figure 6. The installation of this window manager is slightly cumbersome, but I finally found its RPM installation package, and a drum will move it on my screen. KDE, Big Red Purple, is a star in the window manager. You look at Figure 7 and Figure 8, after I found its RPM installation package on the CD, I immediately put it on it, I like it for a while. Now my X-window uses it to facade, many friends look at the house and in love with Linux. If you want Linux to enter the window interface immediately, you can use the MC editor described in the previous article to open the / etc / inittab file, change the id: 3: initDefault to ID: 5: INitDefault, save the modification and exit. This way you can see the window manager when you start Linux next time. If you want to retreat directly from the window, you can press CTRL Alt Backspace (← "on the back to the key. It's really a person who wants clothes, and the Buddha will be gold. These beautiful moving interfaces seem to wash away the tired of Linux. I think you will definitely like them. source:
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