From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 10 13:46:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from schooner.routergeeks.net (schooner.routergeeks.net [204.75.228.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE4637B403 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kozowski@routergeeks.net) Received: (from kozowski@localhost) by schooner.routergeeks.net (8.9.1a/routergeeks.net) id NAA18094; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:46:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:46:46 -0700 From: Eric Kozowski To: Doug Denault Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: another xfree86 question Message-ID: <20010710134646.A18014@schooner.routergeeks.net> References: <20010710112748.C16356@schooner.routergeeks.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2i In-Reply-To: ; from doug@safeport.com on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:52:15PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:52:15PM -0400, Doug Denault wrote: > Did you try XFree86 -configure? This seems to scan your video > card/monitor and starts with something that (it thinks) might work (must > be run as root). i re-ran XFree86 -configure and that did the trick. thanks everyone! > > xf86cfg and xf86config are the other configuration programs. Install (or > README - I forget which) in the XFree86 distribution describes them. One > of these is text based. If you have your monitor specs you might have some > luck with that one. > > newbie@XFree86.Org is helpful if you are just getting started. It is a lot > of traffic but I think archives are available. > > G'luck > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Eric Kozowski wrote: > > > > > ok, now i can run xf86cfg as root and create a config file. however, > > i cannot run XFree86 -xf6config XF86Config as another user. i get: > > > > Fatal server error: > > no screens found > > > > i checked the config file and there are valid screens defined. > > > > anyone have any ideas? > > > > > > 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