Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:11:45 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Lloyd Hayes <lloyd545220-trucker@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg86 -config error Message-ID: <41830671.3040107@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <4182F7E6.3030606@yahoo.com> References: <4182C0A9.8040701@yahoo.com> <4182CE6A.60708@daleco.biz> <4182F7E6.3030606@yahoo.com>
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Lloyd Hayes wrote: > Sorry, I didn't finish the reply before sending the previous message. > > Yes, I was logged in as root. > I was looking and could not find a configuration file, so I started > reading the docs. They refer to setting the X- software during the > installation, but that option was not presented to me. I can install > v5.2.1 and it will be right there. But on v5.3, it isn't there. > > The docs on the CD also referred to using : Xorg -configure > You've read the error that I got. > > So, I headed for the Xorg website and downloaded some of their PDF > help files. > > These two pages are part of the same online document which you can > download in PDF format. > > http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/doc/newport2.html > http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/doc/newport3.html > > Xorg only has a 1280x1024 mode. My old laptop supports an 800x600x18 > screen. (As opposed to the 800x600x16 that I posted before.) Xorg > supports 8 and 24 bit color. > > > Lloyd Hayes OK, so what you meant to say is something like "X.Org only supports 8 and 24-bit modes at 1280x1024 for the SGI newport cards." Now, is that really the card you have? I'm rather dense, but I thought you said you have a Gateway laptop, not an SGI workstation with a "newport" video card in it ... KDK
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