From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 14:41:19 2002 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 A8AA837B406 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:41:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f180.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6960543E42 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:41:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:41:17 -0700 Received: from 66.89.179.250 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:41:17 GMT X-Originating-IP: [66.89.179.250] Reply-To: jmd17@columbia.edu From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: having trouble setting up X on Fbsd 4.7 w/ ATI Mach6 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:41:17 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Oct 2002 21:41:17.0415 (UTC) FILETIME=[96314F70:01C2794A] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had the same problem. 'ati' is not listed, so I used the default/vga. When I finished the install, startx failed. I did some rearch at www.XFree86.org and found that I needed to enter 'ati' for that parameter (I think on that screen, the driver defaulted to 'ati' and it was asking for a chipset??) so both driver and chipset needs to be 'ati' -- if you enter 'mach64', you loose some functionality. Note: as you mention, nether 'ati' or 'mach64' are options. Because I didn't do it during install, I can't tell you 100% that you should enter 'ati' during the install, but you can get more info at www.XFree86.org, or edit the XFConfig86 file after the install like I did. Using 'ati' might also help with modeline, I'm not sure. Modeline worked ok for me. John (c) Copyright 2002 John Daniels. All rights reserved. _________________________________________________________________ Get a speedy connection with MSN Broadband.  Join now! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message