Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:06:01 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Debashis Ghosh <debighosh@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Optiplex issue with Free BSD Message-ID: <20011019090601.D75197@jonc.itouch> In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F435n00zepDI8N0000aafa@hotmail.com>; from debighosh@hotmail.com on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:45:09AM %2B0800 References: <LAW2-F435n00zepDI8N0000aafa@hotmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:45:09AM +0800, Debashis Ghosh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 Dell Optiplex GX150 desktops....specs are Pentium 3 @ 1Ghz , 512 MB
> RAM and Intel 815 Chipset with 20 GB HDD. I was running Red Hat Linux 7.1 on
> one of them and it runs XWindows without issues. I am running FreeBSD on the
> other box....although FreeBSD is a lot faster than Linux I have a major
> issue....I cannot get X Windows to work on the Free BSD box.... I have tried
> all the possible solutions that I could find on the web.... I upgraded the X
> Windows version, loaded the agpgart module and even tried the patch given on
> the Intel website.... however X windows refuses to work. I can get XF86 to
> work only in one mode generic SVGA....that wouldn't have been so bad but the
> problem is the screen resolution is limited to only 600 x 480 ...... that is
> too small a desktop for my requirements....any attempt to change the
> resolution causes the XF86 server to crash.
>
> I am at a loss how to fix this.....Any help will be highly appreciated.
Have a look at the questions archive. Key words: i810 XFree86 agp
Lots of answers to your questions.
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Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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