From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 19 20:50: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7802337B403 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 20:49:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from B-Morgan@concentric.net) Received: from cos80474 (cpe-24-221-198-127.co.sprintbbd.net [24.221.198.127]) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA11581 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 20:49:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brad Morgan" To: Subject: RE: Elsa Gladiac + XFree86 4.1.0 problem Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:49:56 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010619151635.01f6f5a0@mailhost.arsc.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal 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 Having just done the same thing I can suggest two things... First, you need a window manager. The command to start it goes in .xinitrc (no & on the last line). I used KDE. Second, my XFree86 -configure output didn't include commands for the monitor HorizSync and VertRefresh nor did it include any display modes so first I got a 640x480 desktop and then (after first fixing the sync and refresh rates) I got a 1900x1400 (or so) desktop. Try reading text on that one! Using xf86cfg didn't work (core dump), xf86config doesn't have GeForce 2 listed so I ended up manually editing the XF86Config file. Regards, Brad -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Peter Prokein Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 5:48 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Elsa Gladiac + XFree86 4.1.0 problem 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). Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Peter ============================================ Peter Prokein Institute for Northern Engineering University of Alaska Fairbanks 316 Skarland Hall. Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-5860 Work phone: (907) 474-2720 Fax: (907) 474-7979 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message