Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 05:00:18 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> To: Mindy Cotner-Loomis <eternaluxe@chartermi.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting X to work w/i840 chip set Message-ID: <20020213130018.68958.qmail@web13406.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <AE15FE81-29C2-11B2-A877-0003935B0376@chartermi.net>
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--- Mindy Cotner-Loomis <eternaluxe@chartermi.net> wrote: > After many trials and tribulations I now come to you > to ask for your > advice. Finally I have FreeBSD running on my > system, dual booting no > less, with Windows ME (yuck). > I plan on losing Windows here, but not until I have > a gui for UNIX. > I've got X86 4.1 intsalled and have had no luck > getting the gui to run. > I have set it up for i810 chipset and have also > added the line 'Option > "NoDDC"' to the config file, so my initial problems > have been solved. > (what a pain!) Now when X loads, my screen goes all > funky w/ colors and > pixels. It is a flatscreen. I have the manual for > it and have tried it > at all levels of resolution with all possible v and > h refresh rates > listed as compatible. No luck. Any ideas? > I want to make the switch to UNIX, but this is > really kicking my ass. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > -Patrick Cotner > eternaluxe@chartermi.net The problem could be your settings for Horizsync, VertRefresh, or DefaultDepth. Have you checked those? Best of luck, Andrew Gould __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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