From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 25 21:03:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA15228 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 21:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hod.tera.com (hod.tera.com [206.215.142.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA15219 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 21:03:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [206.215.142.62]) by hod.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA21804 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 21:02:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA28898; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 21:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608260402.VAA28898@athena.tera.com> Subject: questions@freebsd.ORG To: questions@freebsd.ORG Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 21:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Update on upgrading to the X 3.1.2 W32 driver: After some hours things began to succeed. It was, of course, a problem with my XF86Config file rather than the driver. I knew this, or assumed this. My quandary was how-to fix my older config file that did run under X3.1.1. I did this is stages. First, after reinstalling the older driver, I plugged in more and more data (configuration settings) from my old /etc/XF86Config file. This involved over a dozen tests, reboots, re-resetting, retrying. When I finally had the new /etc/XF86Config file working with the older driver I knew that I was 80% of the way done. BTW, I used the xf86config binary according to Greg Lehey's instructions (INSTALLING FREEBSD) to generate the new template. ---Good book, Greg.--- After the old driver worked with the new config file I pointed the new X3.1.2 driver at it. There were several things to straighten out, but things finally worked. An additional bonus was that `xvidtune' worked with my new setup and I did some very fine tuning with that tool. Last fall when I originally got X to work, figuring this out took days of trial-and-erroring a few hours at a time. Fine tuning was strictly by hand, and once things were acceptable, I left the configuration alone. With this newer version of X, we are all better off. Two weekends for 2.1.5 compared to 10-12 days for 2.0.5. ...So hats off to the XFree86 team and to the FreeBSD team. gary kline