From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Aug 26 00:39:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21236 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:39:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21230 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:39:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from diabolique ([195.121.58.127]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with SMTP id AAA2052; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:38:57 +0200 X-Sender: skywise@pop.wxs.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Demo Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:38:41 +0200 To: Mike Smith From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Subject: Re: XFree86 Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, David Syphers In-Reply-To: <199808251638.QAA00640@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <7718522FF10.AAA2052@smtp03.wxs.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:38 PM 8/25/98 , Mike Smith wrote: -snip- >> I ran xf86config and the basic vanilla >> video setup (640x480 16 color using X332VG16) because my NeoMagic 128 >> isn't directly supported. This didn't work. I then tried using >> XF86Setup through /stand/sysinstall, and while this seemed more >> promising (hey, it could display the very X-like thing it uses for >> setup), it got me no further. Every time I try to run X using >> "startx," I get the same error - Hmmm, NeoMagic eh? Have ye tried searching AltaVista for +neomagic +freebsd ? That got me a few sites with suggestions and a neomagic driver to include within the X distribution... And I haven't bothered lately, but I got it up at 640 x 480 stable and am increasing to 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 as soon as I find the differences between their X and mine in the config file. >> "{blah blah blah} >> (--) VGA16: There is no mode definition named "640x480" >> >> Fatal server error: >> No valid modes found..." > >Did you save the configuration file when you finished XF86Setup? >Unless you do this explicitly, you won't have a configuration. Not nessecarily, I tweaked the config files according to the sites which people suggested worked and got the same error... >> *briefly stands on soapbox* >> I am new to FreeBSD. By this I do _not_ mean "I've only been a Sun >> sysadmin for 10 years" new to FreeBSD. I mean that I've come directly >> from the world of Microsoft. I've been playing around with FreeBSD off >> and on for over a year now, and obviously haven't accomplished much. I >> really like FreeBSD and the atmosphere of it's users, but I'd just like >> to cast one more vote for the idea that FreeBSD doesn't have adaquate >> support for those of us with absolutely no experience with this stuff - >> no experience with Sun, with SYSV, with Linux, or with DOS. > >That's fair enough; however we don't have a multi-billion dollar >organisation which can control the hardware market and pay people to do >the corner smoothing. Please, I come from a one year experience using Solaris at university but Amiga and Windows mostly. Whenever I don't see something correctly I often join Undernet's #FreeBSD or type either lynx /usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html or lynx /usr/share/doc/FAQ/FAQ.html those two are little wonders... Remember that the FreeBSD effort is one of volunteers and thus we don't have the support power microsoft has (although I must say, the knowledge base is always checked first, would that slightly be akin to GNATS?). >One more point; XFree86 is a third-party product supplied by the >XFree86 Project. If you are having problems with it, you should be >talking to them. If we were Microsoft, we would be charging you $55 >for this advice. Heh, yer prolly right on the $$ thing... NeoMagic is an unsupported chipset in the current XFree86, but ye can however try the altavista search I suggested. Don't have the time to paste the URL's. Regards, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises Network/Security Specialist As far as ye can't tell, I am the Future in Computer Hell... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message