From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 19 18:32: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net (h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net [24.67.61.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABAB437B403 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:32:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@home.com) Received: by h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net (Postfix, from userid 1002) id C2C3A66B00E; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:24:37 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:24:37 -0600 From: Chris Moline To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Elsa Gladiac + XFree86 4.1.0 problem Message-ID: <20010619192437.B2091@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010619151635.01f6f5a0@mailhost.arsc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010619151635.01f6f5a0@mailhost.arsc.edu>; from prokein@arsc.edu on Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 03:48:07PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 03:48:07PM -0800, Peter Prokein wrote: > Folks, > > Let's see if I can sufficiently describe what is going on. I > installed FreeBSD 4.3 using only the "User" option. Then I manually > installed XFree86 4.1.0 using "sh Xinstall.sh". All went find. Then I ran > "XFree86 -configure", went fine. XFree86Config reads that the card detected > is an ELSA Gladiac MX and the driver to be used is "nv", but is also > detected the card on BusID: PCI instead of AGP (not sure if it is supposed > to say AGP anyway). But when I start "XFree86 -xfconfig > /root/XFree86Config.new" the server sort of starts up, but then all I see > is a grayish screen with a black X which has a white border (my cursor). I > can move that cursor around, but that is all can do. The server responds > to CtrlAtlBackspace, but not to CtrlAlt+. When shutting the server down > with CtrlAltBackspace no errors appear, looks like a normal shutdown (as > far as I can tell). Have you got a window manager?? Sincerly, Chris Moline To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message