From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 20 20:29:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA12364 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:29:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA12359 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:28:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA16148; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 14:58:50 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA24590; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 14:58:49 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980321145849.16512@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 14:58:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: BEAUPRE Antoine , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XF86Setup References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from BEAUPRE Antoine on Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 10:48:27PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 20 March 1998 at 22:48:27 -0500, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > I can't get trough the setup process of X free86. > After running XF86Setup, it tries to run the Xserver and and completely > distoorted images appears. The screen seems to be shrink in horizontal > andspawn in multiple copies on the screen. This is a good indication that your screen parameters are messed up. To add injury to insult, this can burn out your monitor if you leave it like that. I hate to say "go and buy a book", but you really should get "The Complete FreeBSD", second edition (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm), which describes what to do to solve this and many other problems (including Internet setup). In the meantime, I can just hope that somebody with more time than I have can help, and suggest that you check the resolutions and board/monitor parameters again. It's tricky. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message