From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 15:55:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from venus.hiline.net (venus.hiline.net [206.61.56.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F0FE1598C for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 15:55:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnny@tds.color-laser.com) Received: from Johnny5.hiline.net ([207.43.223.86]) by venus.hiline.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA23456 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 17:55:31 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199905252255.RAA23456@venus.hiline.net> X-Sender: johnny@mirror.color-laser.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:55:10 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Johnny F. Morris" Subject: RE: XF86 - Gray screen In-Reply-To: <000701bea700$18257860$f9a3f9cf@megared.net.mx> References: <199905252239.RAA22521@venus.hiline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've already tried that...nothing happens. Johnny At 05:44 PM 5/25/99 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, > > You should try cntrl_alt_+ and cntrl_alt_-, (plus and minus signs) these >will change your resolution. > >Ales > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Johnny F. Morris >To: >Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 7:39 PM >Subject: XF86 - Gray screen > > >> I've recently installed XFree86 and thought I had everything set correctly >> but apparently not. >> When I launch X the screen turns gray, the mouse begins working but >nothing >> ever comes >> up on the monitor. >> >> I think I have my monitor settings correct. >> HorizSync 30 - 66 >> VertRefresh 50 - 120 >> and several different modelines are available. >> >> Is there an error log for X I can check? >> >> BTW...when I ran the xf86config program it went fine and at the end popped >> up a window saying >> "Congratulations...your server is running" but after I exit from that and >> then try to actually start >> the X program it just goes into that gray limbo mode and I end up >> cntrl+alt+bkspce after waiting >> several minutes. >> >> Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated. >> Johnny >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message