From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 6:21: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mbunix.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE7D37BC50 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:20:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA26768 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:20:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02974 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:18:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FXY52K00.NIB; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:20:44 -0400 Message-ID: <3975ABDB.D1331F19@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:23:40 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mohsin Rahman Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: OT - XFree86 4.0.1 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mohsin Rahman wrote: > > I have FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE installed on a AMD Athlon. Works great. > When I go to configure XFree86 4.0.1 from the ports collection, > it runs thru fine, and then according to the docs, I issue: > > XFree86 -configure > > It tells me to test the new server by > > XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new > > which I do, and I get the grey screen, but nothing else. Ctrl-Alt-+ > does not do anything, and other than just grey screen, I get nothing. > > Has anyone on the list gotten XFree86 4.0.1 to run with an ATI card. > It shoud be straight forward, but cant get it to work. Thanks in > advance. I have gone thru the docs on Xfree86.org, but still get > stuck at this grey screen. Any pointer appreciated. I think your X is working, you just don't have anything running. Try hitting ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the X server and run the "startx" command. It should bring up a few xterms and an ugly window manager (twm). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message