From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 23:43:28 2004 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 B36AE16A4CE; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 23:43:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A472943D46; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 23:43:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i94Ngjh0069087; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:42:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i94NgR2J003788; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:42:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i94NgJDE003779; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:42:16 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Message-ID: <20041004234216.GA3721@thought.org> References: <20041004175541.GA3038@thought.org> <20041004220203.GI460@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041004220203.GI460@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: OLD e-machines box and XF86Config 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: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 23:43:28 -0000 On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 07:32:03AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 4 October 2004 at 10:55:41 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Folks, > > > > Does anybody onlist have a working XF86Config for an > > old year 2000 emachine 500ix? > > I suppose I'm not the only person to have no idea what kind of machine > this is. What architecture is it? > > > I just upgraded it to a full 256M of SDRAM and added a > > huge drive. Now am getting ready toput 5.3 on there. > > xf86config, the shell version, didn't work, and it looks > > like I messed up on the GUI config. > > > > Assistance much appreciated. > > Well, a good start would be to give some details of the machine (in > particular, the graphics card), what you've done, and what happened. Thanks to haaving used SuSE in 2000, its probe got the initial video card stuff and an XF86Config listing:: VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC" VideoRam 4096 According to the E-Machine's people, the built-in vidio chip can run at 1280x1024; I never tried it higher that 1024x768. It's a 500MHz P-II with 70GB disc, 256MB memory, and some cheesy sound card. E-Machines is pretty well known so I prob'ly don't have to exlain anything there. We (an EE buddy) put in two new fans and a new PS; I figure it's good for ahnother 4 or 5 years. I'd just like to have a working X config file. Right now, "startx" works; but "xdm" bring up a bare-bones mono-chrome window, and after I type in my name/passwd, xdm quits and repawns. The /etc/X11/ directory has several misc files that might be interfering with xdm, but I don't understand how. (I don't find anything interesting in /tmp/.*) I can use the box via my KVM switch, but intend to use this for further driver testing and so want the xdm "xlogin" to work. Any clues? > > > PS: oh yeah, any opinions on xorg vs xfree86 welcome, too. > > The general consensus seems to be to go with X.org, especially with > unusual hardware. I'm doing so, and "it works for me". > Right now the emachine is running 4.8; I'll go x.org once 5.3-R or -STABLE is out..... gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix