Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:00:40 +0300 From: Alexander Prikhod'ko <prikhodko@glasnet.ru> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Problems with configuring XServer Message-ID: <382A4D78.AA4B4F3F@glasnet.ru>
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Dear developers and users of FreeBSD.
I have very big difficulties configuring
XFree86 with Diamond Viper VLB video-card
on a 486-machine.
Could you advise who can I ask about it?
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely, Alex Prikhod'ko.
P.S.: Below I place a message
of the same content that I sent earlier
to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Dear developers of FreeBSD.
Installing FreeBSD on 486-computer
(VLB/ISA motherboard, 32M RAM, IDE HDD)
with "Diamond Viper VLB" card I encountered
strange difficulties configuring XServer.
First, while making installation I trie
to run the graphical utility XF86Setup
and the system die, I see only a white
rectangle on the screen. By the way,
the same happens when I try to use
VGA16-server.
Further, I launch the text utility xf86config
which asks, after usual questions, the type
of the video card and propose to use
the P9000-server, and this is quite reasonable.
But when I try to start XServer I see black screen
and, as it seems to me, the system does not try
to launch KDE. Though, in contrast to the situation
described above, server respond properly
to Ctrl-Alt-Del.
Generally, is it possible to run SVGA-server
(as I do on a Pentium machine with Viper-550)
with such a video card using some "generic" device?
Note that earlier I had no troubles with my Viper
running Windows, though FreeBSD is
much more appropriate to this machine.
I would be much obliged if you help me
understand how to overcome this problem.
Sincerely, Alexander Prikhod'ko.
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