From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 19:11:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11E5B16A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D476343D1D for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:11:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 745D369A7E; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 22:11:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 22:11:05 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "kc" Message-Id: <20040601221105.46bb61ee.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <000801c4483d$43cefca0$8449e5d8@yourqlbjxg2jw2> References: <000801c4483d$43cefca0$8449e5d8@yourqlbjxg2jw2> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 02:11:08 -0000 On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 18:02:22 -0700 "kc" wrote: > hello ive installed freebsd i have 3 versions all of which have the same > problem 4.3 4.8 and 5.1 when i go to run the x window it is just huge bigger > then the screen in fact so big i cant tell whats going on so its basically > unusable ive tried using the - + to change resolutions but nothing i do > changes it to a useable size do you have any solutions for me it runs fine in > text mode but x window its totalled so any ideas ? Sounds like your X settings are not conducive to any resolution higher than the minimum. I think it's been a long time since anyone wrote a GUI app that would work on a 640x480 screen! See this chapter of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html I'm guessing you somehow have either a monitor or vid card config that makes X think it has to run at a super low resolution. Try to use the information in that chapter to work things out. Sometimes it helps to look through /var/log/XFree86.0.log ... that file often contains information that may tell you what part of the configuration is the limiting factor. If you're not able to get anywhere, post again and include your XFree config, as well as the log file mentioned above. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com