Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:10:22 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: v_moore@bigfoot.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xf86config for Toshiba satellite pro laptop Message-ID: <4132625E.1010509@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <BDEJIKKJNPHBJDDFPGDHOEBPCEAA.vaughan.moore@verizon.net> References: <BDEJIKKJNPHBJDDFPGDHOEBPCEAA.vaughan.moore@verizon.net>
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Vaughan Moore wrote: >I'm a complete newbie and I'm trying to set up X server on a Toshiba >Satellite pro 4620dvd laptop. Everytime I run through xf86cfg or >xf86cfg -textmode I get the error message "The XFree86 configuration process >seems to have failed. Would you like to try again?" Obviously, this is a >bit frustrating. > > > Sounds like it. Wonder why? Are you running the program with root privileges? (You should be...) >Here are what I think are the valid parts of the XF86Config file, but I may >be missing something - please let me know. > >InputDevice > Driver = "mouse" > Option = "Protocol" "Auto" > Option = "Device" "/dev/sysmous" >InputDevice > Driver "Keyboard" > Option "Skbmode1" "pc101" (note: my laptop only has 85 keys" > Option "XkbLayout "us" >Monitor > HorizSync 31.5-31.5 > VertRefresh 50.0-70.0 >Card > Driver "s3" > VendorName "S3 Inc." > BoardName "86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV" > ChipSet "SuperSavage/IX64" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" >Screen > Default Depth 8 > Display Depth 1 > Display Depth 4 > Display Depth 8 > Modes "640x480" > Display Depth 15 > Display Depth 16 > Display Depth 24 > >My main questions are: > >1) The Toshiba documentation and Web site do not tell me what my internal >monitor's horizontal sync or vertical refresh rate is. (although it does >give me refresh rates for an external monitor - 60/75/85 @16M colors). Is >there a place I can go to find this information? > > > Well, this is pretty common. Many desktop monitors don't give such information, either, and you either Google for it or guess, usually. What happens if you call "startx", or have you? >2) Are there other obvious reasons the configuration would fail other than >the monitor? > > The most obvious one I can think of is that, IIRC, the driver for the Savage chipsets is "savage", not "s3". But I could be wrong; can't remember ever trying X with the "savage" driver. Have you tried the "vesa" driver? Might do something for ya... Secondly, your Horizontal sync range isn't a range. Perhaps opening that up a bit would allow you to try it out. Certainly there could be other issues as well. I mentioned permissions above, for one. If you have the above in /etc/X11R6/XF86Config, if you run "startx" you should get either a server running or some error output in /var/log that might help...OTOH, I've never set up X on any laptop; I don't know if it's unsafe to try with a relatively untested config file. But the values look sane enough for a CRT display ... >3) Are there any sites I can visit for more info? > > > XFree's site at xfree86.org; the FreeBSD handbook at www.freebsd.org/handbook come to mind. >Thanks so much! > > > You are welcome. >Vaughan Moore > >Also, did I post this to the right list? If not, please let me know where >it should go. > > Works for me. Kevin Kinsey
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