From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 20 21:44:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA10143 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 21:44:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA10120 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 21:43:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA00745; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 16:13:43 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19971221161342.63659@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 16:13:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: grobin@accessv.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-windows headaches References: <349B6AAB.AE2AD192@accessv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <349B6AAB.AE2AD192@accessv.com>; from Geoffrey Robinson on Sat, Dec 20, 1997 at 01:50:19AM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Dec 20, 1997 at 01:50:19AM -0500, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: > I'm a new Unix user and I've been spending the last few days working on > my X-windows in FreeBSD 2.2.5. With the help of a few FBSD gurus I've > gotten it running but its not quite in a usable state due to a few > problems. The first one is that it seems to be stuck in 640x480 > resolution. I have a PCI Mach_64 video card with 1M VRAM and a Daewoo > enhanced SVGA monitor so my hardware is capable of 1024x768 but I can't > get it to 800x600. Greg Lehey went over my /etc/XF86Config and had me > manually add 800x600 to the 'mode' lines but it didn't help. I don't know what's gone wrong with your config, but I suspect that something non-obvious has gone wrong. I'd recommend you to re-run xf86config from scratch with the knowledge you now have, and see if that improves things. If you have any questions about the meaning of any of the questions, ask them. Greg