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Date:      Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:33:16 -0500
From:      Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
To:        matthew@starbreaker.net, Angelo Felix <angelo@blackwater.dynip.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Video to  Big for the Monitor
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20011111173010.00c51d60@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011111223852.EE51C23EFB@IMGate1.cshore.com>
References:  <3BEEEE93.9000802@blackwater.dynip.com> <3BEEEE93.9000802@blackwater.dynip.com>

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At 17:16 2001/11/11 -0500, Matthew Graybosch wrote:
>On Sunday 11 November 2001 16:33, you wrote:
> > I am using 4.1 and I have a voodoo 5  when i get the xserver
> > running , all the graphics are to large and run out side the
> > monitor screen
> >
> > any ideas?
>
>Sounds like you're running at a low resolution, like 640x480. Would
>you mind attaching a copy of /etc/X11/XF86Config for us to look at?


Heh--it sounds like it, and I suspect (from my own experience) that it is 
the case--but not 640x480---
What happened to me was that when I started it (at first I optimistically 
made all modes 1024x768) a look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log (I might have 
that name wrong--I'm in Windows at this instant, and I would just get it by 
doing cat /var/logl/X*) would show that it was having trouble and dropping 
to a default mode of something like 320x120.

I'm anxiously following this thread hoping that someone is going to come up 
with a good solution for him. What I found really aggravating was that 
trying XFree86Setup gave me a decent resolution--but then, when I started X 
it would say can't start the X server.  Sigh.

Scott Robbins


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>Matthew Graybosch
>http://www.starbreaker.net
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>other people's code."
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