Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:23:27 -0700 From: "Sean J. Countryman" <sean@rackoperations.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "C. W. Talbot" <cw_talbot@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: Message-ID: <EOELLBCOGJPNEBBJEKDKOEHOEPAA.sean@rackoperations.com> In-Reply-To: <F71iGXix4A2DreBBsQw00000024@hotmail.com>
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What keyboard, mouse, graphics card, color depth, X-driver, and screen size did you select AND what are the exact models that you have actually installed??? I've had this a bunch, it 99.99% of the time that you selected a combination of graphics card and screen size/color depth that can't be handled with the X-Driver you choose. NORMALLY, simply choosing a lower color depth and screen size will at least get your thru the setup. - Sean Countryman -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of C. W. Talbot Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 7:18 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: I really hate to bother you - maybe it's something simple. I'm loading FreeBSD 4.5 from a CD obatined from a Sam's Unleashed publication "FreeBSD Unleashed", authors Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann. This all takes place during configuration after selecting the mouse, keyboard, graphics card and screen size. I: click on "done" Screen: Attempting to start server then screen: Unable to start X server Press enter to reconfigure I: press enter Screen displays: very large X in middle of scree on a background of large white dots. I: ctl-alt-bkspc screen displays msg: the Free86 configuration process seems to have failed. Would you like to try again? _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail 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
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