From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 19:23:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD1F37B405 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 19:23:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from cartman.wirerats.com (cartman.wirerats.com [64.49.220.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4CC943F79 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 19:23:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sean@rackoperations.com) Received: (qmail 7570 invoked by uid 104); 3 Feb 2003 21:23:28 -0600 Received: from sean@rackoperations.com by cartman.wirerats.com by uid 101 with qmail-scanner-1.15 (clamscan: 20030110. spamassassin: 2.43-cvs. Clear:SA:0(1.2/5.0):. Processed in 0.586402 secs); 04 Feb 2003 03:23:28 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.2 required=5.0 Received: from slkc-dsl-gwthree81.slkc.uswest.net (HELO engineering) (sean@rackoperations.com@63.226.70.81) by cartman.wirerats.com (qmail 1.03 + ejcp) with SMTP; 3 Feb 2003 21:23:27 -0600 From: "Sean J. Countryman" To: "FreeBSD Questions" , "C. W. Talbot" Subject: RE: Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:23:27 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: 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 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