From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 7 22:45:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F4237B407 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 22:45:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id C58B72B716; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 07:45:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 714D7B7; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:45:08 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:45:08 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Brock Kreiser Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need help with Xwindows Message-ID: <20011008154508.E498@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Brock Kreiser , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <011f01c14fb9$376ba4b0$0500a8c0@brockspc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <011f01c14fb9$376ba4b0$0500a8c0@brockspc>; from root63@earthlink.net on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:22:19AM -0400 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 Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:22:19AM -0400, Brock Kreiser wrote: > Ok let first state that i am a total newbie to fbsd!!! and also im lovin it except for X.... I no i gotta be doing something wrong someware but cant figure it out.... I'm running 4.4R and vs.3.3.6 of X (Gnome with Enlightment}i got fbsd runnin on a amd 700 with 128megs of ram my vid card is a Nivida riva TNT2 with 32megs of ram.. My monitor is a gateway ev 500 horizontal sync range is 31-69 kHz vetical is 50-100.... > i can get x to start but the display is just nasty its either 1 all grey and no pics or the display pixels are so huge and unclear you cant see anything at all... Install XFree86-4.10 from the ports collection, that's how I got my TNT2 working. Run the console configuration script and then it works like a charm. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message