Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:43:47 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "David Syphers" <dsyphers@igpp.llnl.gov> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XFree86 Message-ID: <199808261443.KAA01816@laker.net>
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On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:52:26 -0700 (PDT), David Syphers wrote: >(--) VGA16: There is no mode definition named "640x480" > >Fatal server error: >No valid modes found..." What's happening here: The configuration program asks for details about your monitor (in this case, your LCD) and your video board (in this case, it's on the motherboard). Do you know what refresh rates (or range) your video subsystem supports ?? Do you know what horizontal frequencies it supports ?? See, this is a little weird, because an LCD isn't an analog device like a monitor is... What happens during startup is, the X server (X332VG16) probes the "card" do determine which dot clocks it supports and then it tries to match one of those up for each mode (640,800,1024, whatever). In your case, it can find a "union" between the sets. You basically have two choices: 1. Learn enough to "hand configure" XFree86. 2. Forget XFree86 and buy a commercial X windows package. One suggestion made in Greg Lehey's book for number 2 is Xinside. See them at www.xinside.com Do you have a copy of Greg's book, "The Complete FreeBSD" ?? Specifically, do you know how to run the Xserver with -probeonly and redirect the output to a file, so you can post it here ?? I went thru hell getting XFree86 to work on one of my two desktop machines, and the other STILL doesn't run yet... If I wanted limited video support, I would have kept using OS/2 !! If you post the monitor's vertical and horizontal specs and the output of -probeonly, I may be able to help. But it will take some time... You can get a demo of the xinside product at www.xinside.com/support/demo.html The laptop product cost $200. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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