Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:00:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Stephen Beitzel <sbeitzel@envolved.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting X11 to work Message-ID: <20000915110001.H71517@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200009150103.e8F13VF14260@sf-gw.envolved.com>; from sbeitzel@envolved.com on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:03:19PM -0700 References: <200009150103.e8F13VF14260@sf-gw.envolved.com>
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On Thursday, 14 September 2000 at 18:03:19 -0700, Stephen Beitzel wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD several times, now, on different machines, but > I have never managed to get X11 working successfully. Since there's a > big section of the ports tree that is devoted to X11 and since I've seen > messages to -questions and to -stable regarding behaviors of X11 apps, I > assume that *someone* has accomplished what I have not. Is there a HOWTO > or something that I could look at? > > For example, here's a hardware system that I've set up and installed > FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE on: > > ABIT KA-7 motherboard with an Athlon 750 > 128MB RAM > Netgear 10/100 PCI Ethernet card > Aureal Vortex 2 PCI sound card > Diamond Speedstar A90 AGP (16MB) video card > Western Digital Caviar 13GB hard drive > LITE-ON 48x CD-ROM > Mitsubishi 1.44 floppy drive > 104-key keyboard from CompUSA (yeah, it has the silly Windows keys) > Logitech wheelmouse (PS/2 connector) > > Now, when I ran /stand/sysinstall and tried to configure X11, I was able > to get into the configuration tool (XF86Config?) but there was no entry > for this particular video card. I guessed, but I must have guessed > incorrectly since when the configurator tried to start the X11 server > with the configuration I'd built, Nothing Happened. Trying to run the > configuration again didn't work at all -- the application just hung. Try running SuperProbe and seeing what it tells you. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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