From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 6 14:56:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC56016A4BF for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 14:56:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F163B43FEA for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 14:56:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sandshrimp@comcast.net) Received: from comcast.net (unknown[12.242.162.139]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP id <2003090621564401500psqn0e> (Authid: sandshrimp); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 21:56:44 +0000 Message-ID: <3F5A581A.8020905@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 14:56:42 -0700 From: Ryan Merrick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: daniel meg References: <20030906191221.78327.qmail@web10906.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030906191221.78327.qmail@web10906.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: startx fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 21:56:48 -0000 daniel meg wrote: > > I am running FreeBSD 4.8 RELEASE. > > Video Card: nVidia RIVA128 > > I run the xf86config trillion of times..read through the manual over and over..but just can't get it to works...the attached file is the XFree86.log file and mine XF86Config file..hope BSD hackers will help.. > >... > > # ********************************************************************** > # Screen sections > # ********************************************************************** > > # Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes > # the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section > # may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen" > # option. > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen 1" > Device "RIVA128" > Monitor "My Monitor" > DefaultDepth 24 > > Subsection "Display" > Depth 8 > Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > ViewPort 0 0 > EndSubsection > Subsection "Display" > Depth 16 > Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > ViewPort 0 0 > EndSubsection > Subsection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > ViewPort 0 0 > EndSubsection > EndSection > >... The default display mode above are the first pair on the left after modes ("1280x1024"). Your video card and monitor only do what is listed below from your log. Your maxium size is 1024x786 @ 60Hz that is supported by your monitor. Change your display depth to 16 or eight add reverse the modes start with "640x480". Use ctl+alt+numpad + or - to cycle through the different modes. - Ryan Merrick (II) NV(0): Supported VESA Video Modes: (II) NV(0): 720x400@70Hz (II) NV(0): 720x400@88Hz (II) NV(0): 640x480@60Hz (II) NV(0): 640x480@67Hz (II) NV(0): 640x480@72Hz (II) NV(0): 640x480@75Hz (II) NV(0): 800x600@56Hz (II) NV(0): 800x600@60Hz (II) NV(0): 800x600@72Hz (II) NV(0): 800x600@75Hz (II) NV(0): 832x624@75Hz (II) NV(0): 1024x768@87Hz (interlaced) (II) NV(0): 1024x768@60Hz (II) NV(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0 (II) NV(0): Supported Future Video Modes: (II) NV(0): #0: hsize: 640 vsize 480 refresh: 85 vid: 22833 (II) NV(0): #1: hsize: 800 vsize 600 refresh: 85 vid: 22853 (II) NV(0): #2: hsize: 1024 vsize 768 refresh: 60 vid: 16481 (II) NV(0): Supported additional Video Mode: (II) NV(0): clock: 36.0 MHz Image Size: 255 x 191 mm (II) NV(0): h_active: 640 h_sync: 696 h_sync_end 752 h_blank_end 832 h_border: 0 (II) NV(0): v_active: 480 v_sync: 481 v_sync_end 484 v_blanking: 509 v_border: 0 (II) NV(0): Supported additional Video Mode: (II) NV(0): clock: 56.2 MHz Image Size: 255 x 191 mm (II) NV(0): h_active: 800 h_sync: 832 h_sync_end 896 h_blank_end 1048 h_border: 0 (II) NV(0): v_active: 600 v_sync: 601 v_sync_end 604 v_blanking: 631 v_border: 0 (II) NV(0): Ranges: V min: 50 V max: 120 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 55 kHz, PixClock max 2550 MHz (II) NV(0): Serial No: HMEN414506 (II) NV(0): end of DDC Monitor info