Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:04:15 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: X suddenly hates me Message-ID: <20020130224424.M75976-100000@serv1.wallnet.com>
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At work, on Monday, we got a brand new shipment of 10 Dell Latitude C600 laptops. Since I'm in charge of taking care of that sort of thing, the first thing I did was grab one, shrink (fips.exe) the FAT partition, and install FreeBSD on it. Everything worked like a charm, including cvsuping the src-all and ports-all sources, rebuilding the world and having a dandy 4.5-STABLE release. Even the Dell TrueMobile wireless card woke up on boot (something that the Win 2k partition is yet to accomplish) and I had network connectivity, immediately --infact I'm typing this ssh'd into my ISP from the Latitude right now. Then I built KDE 2.2.2_x from ports... but, for the first time ever (for me), KDE built and installed without an error! Riding this swell of success, I brought the laptop home with me tonight and started to configure the X-server --and there my sucess story ground to a halt.... This laptop has an ATI Mobility 128 graphics card (supported under XFree336_10), a 14.x " monitor (windows claims it's 60 Hz) and 8 MB of video Ram. Everytime I try and run the CLI X config program (from /stand/sysinstall) X refuses to start... various errors, though the "16bpp mode is not supported" is the one I see last before the dreaded "Fatal Server error" line. I used to be able to fight through these problems with the old graphical XF86Setup, but, in this version of X it is apparently gone. I've tried everything I can think of but X is till a no-go... if anyone has faced this problem recently (or especially if they have won the battle) please let me know. I can attach the Config file if needed, but I figured this e-mail was far long enough. Thanks, Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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