Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:04:57 -0500 From: "Dinesh Nadarajah" <dxn1972@hotmail.com> To: jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz, debighosh@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Optiplex issue with Free BSD Message-ID: <F246FDF7WCI5TrcDd4i0000729a@hotmail.com>
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I had the same problem. We have a couple of Compaqs we wanted to use as servers but they have the i810 chip set too. And I followed every step of the document at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html but no luck. I loaded the agpgart module and it did recognize it. But when I did XFree86 -configure the screen blanked out. Had to Alt-Ctrl-Del to get out (did this about 15 times today with the freeBSD box). Configured the XF86Config.new files and everything. No luck. Finally installed Linux (breeze) and got the work going. I am hoping to get this problem fixed and install FreeBSD on the second machine soon. Any more advice/pointers/experience on fixing this would be a help. I am going to try and duplicate the XF86Configure file from linux. Also, if both X-3.x.x and X-4.x.x are installed in your system, how do you specify which to start or would freeBSD overide 3.x.x with the 4.x.x? Thanks. -D >From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> >To: Debashis Ghosh <debighosh@hotmail.com> >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Dell Optiplex issue with Free BSD >Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:06:01 +1300 > >On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:45:09AM +0800, Debashis Ghosh wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have 2 Dell Optiplex GX150 desktops....specs are Pentium 3 @ 1Ghz , >512 MB > > RAM and Intel 815 Chipset with 20 GB HDD. I was running Red Hat Linux >7.1 on > > one of them and it runs XWindows without issues. I am running FreeBSD on >the > > other box....although FreeBSD is a lot faster than Linux I have a major > > issue....I cannot get X Windows to work on the Free BSD box.... I have >tried > > all the possible solutions that I could find on the web.... I upgraded >the X > > Windows version, loaded the agpgart module and even tried the patch >given on > > the Intel website.... however X windows refuses to work. I can get XF86 >to > > work only in one mode generic SVGA....that wouldn't have been so bad but >the > > problem is the screen resolution is limited to only 600 x 480 ...... >that is > > too small a desktop for my requirements....any attempt to change the > > resolution causes the XF86 server to crash. > > > > I am at a loss how to fix this.....Any help will be highly appreciated. > >Have a look at the questions archive. Key words: i810 XFree86 agp >Lots of answers to your questions. >-- >Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity > -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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