Call to A3000 owners with AMIX to test XDM

Noth · 18 January 2018, 14:49

Hello all,

I've been trying some things with the A2410 card in WinUAE, one of which is getting a colour XDM login. This can be achieved by editing /usr/X/lib/xdm/Xservers and enabling the A2410 line and deleting/commenting out the last line that gives you the black & white lowres / A2024 XDM.

Then, for 2.1: run amixadm from shell and choose option 8 to enable the colour card and choose A2410, then option 9 and enable xdm.

For 2.03 :

Code:

sacadm -a -p xdm -t xdm -vl -c /usr/X/bin/xdm

You probably need to reboot now, and it should boot up into a colour XDM screen (salmon window on grey mess background).

Now the problem is, in WinUAE this makes the input lock up. Can't enter text, mouse cursor won't move. If you have the network configured and you're logged in remotely, you can still do a clean reboot and other operations, but even restarting XDM fails because of the probs in emulating the A2410 card's chip, I suspect. It'll just leave you with a black screen once it's crashed, and you need to restart WinUAE, not just do a reset, for it to initialize properly again.

So does it work OK on physical hardware? I'm most curious...

psygon · 23 January 2018, 19:41

And the problem persists on both resolution settings (1024x768 and 800x600)

Noth · 24 January 2018, 13:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by psygon

And the problem persists on both resolution settings (1024x768 and 800x600)

Is that with the A2410 or are you running a different card? X11R4 or R5?

psygon · 27 January 2018, 00:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Noth

Is that with the A2410 or are you running a different card? X11R4 or R5?

X11R4 with A2410 on WinUAE

18 January 2018, 14:49	#1
Noth Registered User Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Lausanne, Switzerland Posts: 184	Call to A3000 owners with AMIX to test XDM Hello all, I've been trying some things with the A2410 card in WinUAE, one of which is getting a colour XDM login. This can be achieved by editing /usr/X/lib/xdm/Xservers and enabling the A2410 line and deleting/commenting out the last line that gives you the black & white lowres / A2024 XDM. Then, for 2.1: run amixadm from shell and choose option 8 to enable the colour card and choose A2410, then option 9 and enable xdm. For 2.03 : Code: sacadm -a -p xdm -t xdm -vl -c /usr/X/bin/xdm You probably need to reboot now, and it should boot up into a colour XDM screen (salmon window on grey mess background). Now the problem is, in WinUAE this makes the input lock up. Can't enter text, mouse cursor won't move. If you have the network configured and you're logged in remotely, you can still do a clean reboot and other operations, but even restarting XDM fails because of the probs in emulating the A2410 card's chip, I suspect. It'll just leave you with a black screen once it's crashed, and you need to restart WinUAE, not just do a reset, for it to initialize properly again. So does it work OK on physical hardware? I'm most curious...

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23 January 2018, 19:41	#2
psygon Registered User Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Taranto Posts: 5	And the problem persists on both resolution settings (1024x768 and 800x600)

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