From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 00:18:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA06447 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:18:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA06438 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:18:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA23792; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:18:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:18:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Henk cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X windows In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970121215818.00685204@mail.worldonline.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Henk wrote: > I have installed the freeBSD-2.1 release on my PC, but the problem is that > I can't run X. My guess is that it is because of a wrong setting of my > vertical- and horizontal sync. I had to guess them since there is no vendor > name on my monitor and I have no manual with it. Is there a utility that > can find it out for me. No; these are hardware parameters and it is possible to damage your monitor by using incorrect settings. Try running xf86config and picking some of the generic settings. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major