From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 30 01:17:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 547C916A4DA for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:17:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th) Received: from stjohn.ac.th (ns.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B745143D45 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:17:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th) Received: from tulip.stjohn.ac.th [203.151.134.104] by stjohn.ac.th with ESMTP (SMTPD-8.21) id A6490EC8; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:13:45 +0700 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20060830075547.00aa9670@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: 2-server.international.stjohn.ac.th:mcrogerm@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:18:01 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Roger Merritt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Monitor display problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:17:25 -0000 I recently acquired a newer box to hold my server. I was using a PII 300MHz with 64MB RAM. The new box has an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 239MB (?) RAM and what seems most pertinent, an S3 ProSavage DDR (86c420) graphics chip. When I first tried configuring X I discovered that when I tried to exit x-windows the machine would hang. When I hit the reset button my monitor showed a brief message, signal outside frequency range (which might very well be normal behavior). Eventually I got xorg working at a pleasant 1024x768 size, a great relief after the 640x480 I was limited to before, but I still have the problem that when I try to exit the x-server the machine hangs. It happens regardless of whether I use fvwm's exit command or hit . Checking my xorg.conf file I find that none of the optional commands are uncommented, and I started to remember years ago when I had to enable one of the options (something to do with using the software cursor) to get XFree86 to work -- I think that machine had an S3 card, but it might have been SiS. Anyway, I noticed that when I came in to work one morning, the pilot light on the monitor was blinkiing. No graphics signal to the monitor. Moved the mouse, hit the key, hit other keys, no help. So I rebooted by hitting the reset button. Everything seemed to work fine. Now, I usually don't work at the console -- even though my regular working (MS Win 2000 Pro) is right next to it, it's usually easier just to use PuTTY to make an SSH connection, so I didn't notice for some time that the monitor light was blinking again. I've tried the Google search engine, but can't seem to find a similar problem. I've wondered whether I should add the VESA option to my configuration file and rebuild the kernel. Can anyone offer suggestions -- possibly I just need to set something in vidcontrol? -- Roger