From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 15: 0:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (mail2.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B0FC37B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:00:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.17.229.11]) by mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010213230035.WBN23363.mail2.rdc1.il.home.com@home.com>; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:00:35 -0800 Message-ID: <3A8A1213.4000607@home.com> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:05:23 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" Reply-To: vcardona@home.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14 i586; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010210 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wyatt Banks Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XF86 configuration doesn't work correctly. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wyatt Banks wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Victor R. Cardona wrote: > >> Wyatt Banks wrote: >> >>> I called my monitor vendor and received my hsync and vsync limits, and >>> entered them when running xf86config, yet when I start the X server, I get >>> 'signal out of range' errors. Is XF86 written that poorly? >>> I can't seem to get a running X server no matter what configuration I use, >>> whether defining my own, or using one of the pre-defined monitor types. I >>> have my card and mouse configured correctly. The only X server I can get >>> running won't allow me to change modes, and is stuck in a 640X480 looking >>> window. I specified that I wanted to be allowed to change modes, although >>> it won't let me, and it says I can run 800*600, 640*480 and 1024*768 at >>> all color depths. >>> >>> Is there a simple solution to this problem? I've tried many different >>> configurations. >>> >>> thank you >>> banksw@sunyit.edu >>> >>> >>> >>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> Knowing something about your hardware would be helpful. XFree86 has >> never been easy to configure. Although, I think it has improved somewhat >> over the last couple of years. >> >> Victor Cardona >> > > what else is there to know besides the correct hsync and vsync values of > my monitor, the amount of video ram I have, the exact card I have, the > color depths it supports, and what modes my monitor can support (as was > mentioned in the original message)? > > thanks > banksw@sunyit.edu > > > I did not see your the name of your card in your previous posting. I apologize if I missed it. Victor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message