Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:25:31 -0400 From: WiggTekMicro Corp <wiggtekmicro@comcast.net> To: Dylan Wylie <d.wylie@hccnet.nl>, Mobile-BSDlist <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XFree86 won't run on 5.1 installed on Lifebook S-2020. Message-ID: <1066753531.6841.22.camel@wiggtekmicrogate> In-Reply-To: <3F957485.20654.169C44@localhost> References: <3F957485.20654.169C44@localhost>
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--=-WNjKRFSY41odv56WKnLv Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am glad that you made mention of that step, because I have done that countless times. The test always works, and XFree86 always starts that checkered screen, however, it always stops and indicates that there was a bad monitor name ":0" twice, and then gives me the bash prompt. I had Gnome working after the last message about changing the window manager, and then I actually tried to log out and start up a kde session. My laptop restarted fine, and then I got the same error messages from "startx" that I did before xfree86 was configured. Any help would be much appreciated. I can get the x-server to boot, when I manually edit the .new file, but never by directly editing the true XF86Config file. I always have to make my changes within the XF86Config.new file under the /root home. Any assistance with this is much appreciated. I don't understand why the e x-server is so unreliable in FreeBSD. I don't even have to configure it when installing and booting linux. In FreeBSD, the configuration gui seems to be toying with me, by making me go through all that configuration and then spitting out the same errors that I am getting now. And when I had GNOME up, I found that I had no applications other than those for administering gnome, or just the bare assentials. When I went to the bootup disk and tried to install things from ports collection, my laptop beeps and then nothing gets installed. Does anyone have a hint about that? When I tried to install the ports packages, I do remember that the / partion seemed to be full, however, that is not possible, since I have a 20GB partion and ports are usually installed under /usr. I did not install the partitions by hand. I used option A so that I did not have to take the extra time. Is this what might have caused the problem? Please let me know something. I am really disappointed with the way this OS works. I have been spouting the positives that FBSD and linux seem to have, but when it comes down to it, I find that a system that won't even run a simple graphic session reliably is not quite a great as I had hoped. I know that FreeBSD is not a user friendly as most other OS distobutions, but this is plain rediculous. Oh, I forgot the best part, I have the same issues when using a standard Gateway VX900 monitor, on my server at home. I still have redhat loaded on it, which I am sending these messages with, since I cannot even get bsd to run a graphic session reliably on either system. What is the deal guys????? --=-WNjKRFSY41odv56WKnLv Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: Forwarded message - Re: XFree86 won't run on 5.1 installed on Lifebook S-2020. Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: from smtp.hccnet.nl ([62.251.0.13]) by sccrmxc12.comcast.net (sccrmxc12) with ESMTP id <20031021160315s1200kv63ae>; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:03:15 +0000 Received: from upsilon by smtp.hccnet.nl via fia142-13-100.dsl.hccnet.nl h9LG3Ef1011673 (8.12.10/2.03); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:03:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Dylan Wylie" <d.wylie@hccnet.nl> To: wiggtekmicro@comcast.net Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:01:41 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: XFree86 won't run on 5.1 installed on Lifebook S-2020. Message-ID: <3F957485.20654.169C44@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <1066537716.5926.20.camel@wiggtekmicrogate> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.11) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-description: Mail message body Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 19 Oct 2003 at 0:28, WiggTekMicro Corp wrote: > I am having problems getting xfree86 version 4.3 on thge 5.1-Release > edition to run on my Fujitsu S-2020 Lifebook. I have installed Redhat 9 > and Mandrake 9.2, and both work fine with graphics. What is the major > malfunction with BSD. It is definately installed, because I can get it > up without the x-server, however, if I type 'startx' it prints out the > fatal error part, and says that monitor:0 is bad, or something like > that. I have to linux tripple booted on my laptop, now, however, I put > BSD on there first, and encountered the problem with 3.3 and now 4.3 > x-server versions... > > If you are unfamiliar with this brand, the 'S' models are the medium > mobility with the optional AMD-XP-M processors, labeled with 2000 as the > number index. The graphics card is the ATI Radeon IGP 320M. Under > linux, the VESA generic works fine, however, on FBSD-5.1, there is no > such luck. I am not sure if the error is from the monitor setting, or > the VESA setting. > > I really want to be able to use FBSD-5.1 on my laptop, so I really would > like to discuss this further. My AOL/MSN messenger name(s) is(are) > marteswigg. > > Can anyone assist me in this delemma? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Now I might be underestimating your skills, or over-estimating mine, but did you do a # XFree86 -configure ? It will probe the system an generate an XFConfig.new file in $HOME (porbably /root ?). You can then further tweak this file to your likings. Perhaps this process is automated under the Linux ditro's you used so far? Give it a shot. Sounds like an XConfig-thing, not FreeBSD. Gotta admit though, I'm a bit of a newbie :) good luck --=-WNjKRFSY41odv56WKnLv--
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