Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:16:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Cannot change X screen resolution Message-ID: <20020305141610.E64582@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020304222820.N96680-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020305120749.B64582@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020304222820.N96680-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Monday, 4 March 2002 at 22:34:03 -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 4 March 2002 at 20:06:55 +0000, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: >>> [snip] I am using the same XF86Config as before. >> >> There has been a format change since 3.3.6. Are you sure it's >> really using the same config file? >> >>> Any idea how I can restore this "zoom" feature? >> >> Capture the output of the X startup and check the messages. > > Question, how *DO* you capture the output of the X startup? $ startx 2>&1 > /var/tmp/startuplog > I upgraded from 3.3.6 to 4.2.0 and have exhausted myself trying to > get XFree86 to work; now when I run it after doing the configure, I > get a blank screen that does not respond to C-A-BS nor Alt-(F1) or > whicheverhaveyou. That should be ctrl-alt-F1. Does that work? Or does it hang the computer completely? With 4.x, you should be able to create a config file with # X -config Does that config file not work? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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