From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Nov 3 7:42:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from cell-works.com (cell-works.com [216.112.245.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A011508F for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 07:42:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@cell-works.com) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by cell-works.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14554 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:51:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john@cell-works.com) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:51:58 -0500 (EST) From: John Daniel To: freebsd-newbies@freeBSD.ORG Subject: xfree86 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i am cuurently setting up xwindows but I all th e documentation for it I haven't been able to find a discription of what the variuos failures are and what they look like. I'm working on a tyan 1668 dual ppro MB wit a matrox millenium 2mb with a additional 2mb daughter card. But I haven't been able to get it to work well. Either startx doesn't work or it works but the whole screen is covered with vertical lines. the box is 2.2.8 ( I like it better then 3.x.x ). the xfree86 is what ever came with the distribution. I'm just not sure what the vertical lines are indicative of so it hard to figure out what settings I need to fix. I'm also wondering if i should do a reinstall of xfree86. By the way how do you check to figure out what version your using of the packages your installing? or Have installed? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I hope that after I die, people will say of me : " That guy sure owed me a lot of money." -JH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message