From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 8 0:44:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from terminus.dnttm.ro (terminus.dnttm.ro [193.226.98.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE48737B401 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 00:44:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gateway.saguaro.ro (dnt-gw-saguaro.dnttm.ro [193.226.98.106]) by terminus.dnttm.ro (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA30989; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:43:46 +0300 Received: from saguaro.ro (samba.spr [192.168.1.100]) by gateway.saguaro.ro (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA30675; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:43:34 +0300 Received: from claus (claus.spr [192.168.1.9]) by saguaro.ro (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f987gic13088; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:42:53 +0300 Message-ID: <006001c14fd4$f3d81410$0901a8c0@claus> From: "Claudiu Balogh" To: "Brock Kreiser" Cc: References: <001001c14fbc$485fac00$0500a8c0@brockspc> Subject: Re: Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:40:45 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, It seems to me that XFree86 3.3.6 isn't capable of handling some newer nVidia cards correctly... I have had exactly the same problem with my GeForce 256, so I upgraded my X to ver. 4.*. XFree86 ver.4+ is changed in structure compared to previous versions. It's more modularized and has support for many newer cards (allegedly the nv4 driver, that I am using with my card, supports everything through GeForce3, as I remember reading the documentation for it). Upgrading to XFree86 is very simple, just follow the readme files and that's all. Everything went perfectly and I am now able to use my card with whatever resolution I please to. Maybe it's not the best solution, but it seems to be the simplest. I experiment a lot with FreeBSD, so I reinstall it very often. I never had a problem with upgrading to the latest version of XFree86. Maybe there are problems but I didn't notice any. So jump on the XFree86 ftp site and get the newest version. Hope this helps, Claus. P.S. Question: why isn't the latest XFree86 included in FreeBSD 4.4 ? I know this question should go to freebsd-questions, but since this problem has come up here I thought I might just ask it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brock Kreiser To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 07:44 Hey all, Ok let first state that i am a total newbie to fbsd!!! and also im lovin it except for X.... I no i gotta be doing something wrong someware but cant figure it out.... I'm running 4.4R and vs.3.3.6 of X (Gnome with Enlightment}i got fbsd runnin on a amd 700 with 128megs of ram my vid card is a Nivida riva TNT2 with 32megs of ram.. My monitor is a gateway ev 500 horizontal sync range is 31-69 kHz vetical is 50-100.... i can get x to start but the display is just nasty its either 1 all grey and no pics or the display pixels are so huge and unclear you cant see anything at all... for the vid card selection i tried the nvidia riva tnt2(generic) also tried the Riva tnt 2 but either way cant get it to work... I did have it working the first time i ran fbsd but then i messed something up severly and i ended up formating and starting all over again (what can i say Damn Newbies) and yes i have read over the handbook and even the complete fbsd book... but no matter what i cant get it to work.. 1 more thing the one time i did get X to work... when runnin xf86config my vid card was # 362 which now is 466 how that happen i will never no but thats one of those lovely things about computers i guess.. someone please help me!!!!!!!!! if you need more info just let me no!!!!! like i said before im just a newbie trying to escape from microsoft :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message