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Date:      Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:18:03 -0400
From:      "Christopher T. Jewett" <ctjewett@onebox.com>
To:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   XFree86 Configuration Problems...
Message-ID:  <20011011151803.HEQG29220.mta06.onebox.com@onebox.com>

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I'm trying to run XFree86 4.1.0 on FreeBSD 4.4 with KDE 2.2.2.  X seems
to run correctly under user "root" (which I'm only using for configuration
purposes), but for some reason, I can't get it to display the screen
in the 1024x768.  I used XFree86 -configure to setup my XF86Config file
(Which worked like a charm, configuring my NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX/400 and
Monitor settings to the perfect HSYNC and VSYNC settings), and went back
in using vi to add DefaultDepth so that it would display in 24-bit color.
 I also tried adding only "1024x768" to Modes in the 24-bit Color Subsection
under Display, but that didn't seem to help.  I really wish they would
implement the GUI based setup utility that was in XFree86 3.3.6, but
they still haven't done that yet.

Also, for some reason, when I try to start X under my unpriviliged user
it fails to load saying something about "<name.domain.domain> 0 not in
XAuthority function 'add' or 'list'".  I've tried adding the correct
settings to my .XAuthority file, but it still doesn't seem to want to
load.

I'm hopelessly confused about the screen resolution issue, and the other
issue with unpriviliged users not being able to boot X is just really
irritating too.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  I could really use
the help.  I've read just about all the useless documentation on this
issue as I could find (on Xfree86.org and FreeBSD.org and Daemonnews.com's
newbie help.)

Very Frustrated,

Chris

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