X and fonts

[Net Llama!]

On 04/26/03 21:01, Ian Stephen wrote:
> Everyone should have two monitors, at least until 30" monitors become
> affordable.  My seconds were both used, $10 cdn for card and $50 for
> monitor.  Wouldn't go back to one for love or money.

Yea, but how big are your 2 monitors?  I've got one 21".  Sure i'd love 
another, but i don't have US$500 to shell out for it right now.

> On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 19:02, Net Llama! wrote:
>> My experience with dual heads (AKA Xinerama) is limited, so take my 
>> comments with a grain or two of sale.
> 
>> Which config files?
> 
> I thought it was XF86Config-4, but as you point out I was wrong.  I get
> a little frazzled with these fixing marathons.  The thing I thought had
> been fixed by aligning a memory figure for one video card is still there
> in XFree86.0.log
> 
> "(II) I810(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 1024 pages failed
>          (Cannot allocate memory)
>  (II) I810(0): No physical memory available for 4194304 bytes of DCACHE
>  (II) I810(0): Adding 768 scanlines for pixmap caching"
> 
> This is onboard AGP video.  Does this just mean the video doesn't have
> it's own ram?

For the i810, yes.  That's the same one that i've got, and it just 
piggybacks on the system RAM.

>> Provided the default fixed font that you were missing.  How long had it 
>> been since you rebooted and/or restarted X before last night's occurances?
>  
> I boot Linux, runlevel 5, every evening after work.  Wife and kids use
> Win98 on the same machine during the day 'cause it's what they're used
> to.  Everything seemed fine after the up2date, though now that I think
> of it when I shutdown last night it did say it failed to stop xfs. 
> Didn't even know what that was then.  Discovered trouble when I fired it
> up this morning.

Did you restart X after running up2date?


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