Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 20:45:18 +1000 From: andrew.walters@cerebrum.com.au To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Xorg woes Message-ID: <20070706204518.0o7gwq56sgo8sokg@webmail.cerebrum.com.au>
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Hello I am hoping that this is the right place to request help for such a problem - I am attempting to make the transition from Windows to FreeBSD so bear with me, Also, my apologies if you receive this more =20 than once, I have never subscribed to a mailing list and suspect that =20 my first request did not come through as I was not subscribed - but if =20 it did, I am sorry. My issue is this: I cannot, for the life of me, get a working X configuratio= n. I am running an AMD-64 (Asus M2V-TVM) with an integrated VIA K8M890 graphics chip. I have installed a working (text only) version of FreeBSD 6.2 following the FreeBSD installation instructions and have downloaded and built Xorg using the same instructions. I attempted to configure Xorg for my setup but on every test could not get a usable screen. Having done a bit of research and discovering that the VIA chip was problematic, I bought a NVIDIA 85000GT because the NVIDIA driver support seemed to be much better. Unfortunately, the results were no better. I am also running Windows and have tried an installation of Ubuntu on the box with both cards without any real hassles. I have set the refresh and sync rates amd the modes for the screen (have even copied the working "Vesa" setup from Ubuntu) but I still can't get a working screen (it varies from completely black using the NVIDIA cars to a fuzzy mess using the Via). If anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be extremely appreciated. Regards Andrew
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