Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:23:27 -0700 From: "Sean J. Countryman" <sean@rackoperations.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "C. W. Talbot" <cw_talbot@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: Message-ID: <EOELLBCOGJPNEBBJEKDKOEHOEPAA.sean@rackoperations.com> In-Reply-To: <F71iGXix4A2DreBBsQw00000024@hotmail.com>
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What keyboard, mouse, graphics card, color depth, X-driver, and screen size
did you select AND what are the exact models that you have actually
installed???
I've had this a bunch, it 99.99% of the time that you selected a combination
of graphics card and screen size/color depth that can't be handled with the
X-Driver you choose. NORMALLY, simply choosing a lower color depth and
screen size will at least get your thru the setup.
- Sean Countryman
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of C. W. Talbot
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 7:18 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:
I really hate to bother you - maybe it's something simple.
I'm loading FreeBSD 4.5 from a CD obatined from a Sam's Unleashed
publication "FreeBSD Unleashed", authors Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann.
This all takes place during configuration after selecting the mouse,
keyboard, graphics card and screen size.
I: click on "done"
Screen: Attempting to start server
then screen: Unable to start X server
Press enter to reconfigure
I: press enter
Screen displays: very large X in middle of scree on a background
of large white dots.
I: ctl-alt-bkspc
screen displays msg: the Free86 configuration process
seems to have failed. Would you like
to try again?
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