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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:57:01 +0200
From:      CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu>
To:        Paharenko Gleb <fi1214@ptf.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>, "Aleksey V. Dolya" <TanaT@smtp.ru>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem
Message-ID:  <200303311157.01752.a.carter@intrasoft.lu>
In-Reply-To: <20030331122308.Q3533-100000@ally.ptf.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
References:  <20030331122308.Q3533-100000@ally.ptf.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>

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I had this problem for a while...

It was with a Prophet 4500 (KYRO II chipset). I resolved it by recompiling the 
kernel with

options	VESA

in the kernel configuration file, and this solved it for me.

Anthony

On Monday 31 March 2003 11:27, Paharenko Gleb wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Aleksey V. Dolya wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have problem in configuring XFree86 in FreeBSD 4.7
> >
> > I  try  to configure it after installation. I used graphical
> > tool and textmode utility too.
> >
> > The result is often the same:
> >
> > "The  XFree86  configuration  process  seems to have failed.
> > Would you like to try again?"
> >
> > I  have Sony CPD-E100E Monitor, S3 Savage4 card and standard
> > mouse&keyboard.
> >
> > Configuration  utility autodetects this hardware and autouse
> > reasonable parameters, but it doesn't help.
> >
> > Configuring  XFree86  I  parameters  from the document to my
> > monitor. But it doesn't help.
> >
> > I  try  to  use  params which are worse than my real. But it
> > doesn't help.
> >
> > Without  XFree  I  can't  use GNOME&KDE in normal resolution
> > (only in 200x300).
> >
> > I don't know what to do. Help me, please.
> >
> > Aleksey.
> >
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> Try to look at log file of Xserver
> some times X use another config file
> see which config it uses in /etc/X11 /usr/local/etc/X11 or
> in some different place
> the config programs often saves the produced config to
> wrong place
>
> 		Gleb Paharenko (fi1214@ptf.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua)
>
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