From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 10:23: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD9837B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net [68.14.62.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB80B43E42 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:23:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8QHN4Gv016962; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:23:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by ip68-14-62-49.no.no.cox.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8QHMx9d016947; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:22:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000001c2656a$703845b0$6401a8c0@SURVIVAL> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:22:59 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: conrads@cox.net Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-crazed Hippies From: Conrad Sabatier To: MET Subject: Re: Configuring XFree86 - not working... Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26-Sep-2002 MET wrote: > So I've installed XFree86 (or rather FBSD 4.6.2 did as it came with it). > I'm updated my ports and my system to -STABLE. However when I try to > configure X-Server I get a blue flashy screen that reminds of death (too > many years on MS I guess). Any how, I'm attempting to the Handbook ( > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > ): > > # XFree86 -configure > > # XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config.new > > Instead of the wonderful "black and grey grid and an X mouse cursor" I > get some retarded shaky blue-ish crap. My machine is a Dell Inspiron > 8200 Laptop ( 15 IN SXGA+ || 64MB DDR 4X AGP NVIDIA NV17 3D VIDEO ). > > Any ideas what I have to do in order to get this to work? Try running "xf86cfg -textmode". -- Conrad Sabatier Yes, but which self do you want to be? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message