From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 29 0:34:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from volodya.prime.net.ua (volodya.prime.net.ua [195.64.229.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41C7615535 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:34:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Received: from prime.net.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by volodya.prime.net.ua (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01075; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:33:33 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Message-ID: <37A003CC.51A90C14@prime.net.ua> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:33:32 +0300 From: "Andy V. Oleynik" Organization: M-Info X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru, uk MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Peter Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: startx References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Send here ur XF86Config. Stefan Peter wrote: > > The problem probably is in videomode U've choosen. > > If ur monitor's properties relevant to HSYNC VSYNC > > etc dont agree with those choosen X will fail to start. > But how can I find the proper videomode? I tried the standard, > 640x468x256, this setting should have worked, but it didn't work at all. > Of course when I used startx. And when I configured using /Graphical > X111 config, it was perfect, even in cases of higher resolutions > (1024x768). The graphical screen appeared, without any errors. How it is > possible to preserve these settings for startx. What's the difference > between the /stand/sysinstall's X-server initialization (which works), and > the startx's initialization (which does not)? > > > See ur error log. > (--) ET4000W32: Ramdac speed: 86 > (--) ET4000W32: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 86.000 MHz > (--) ET4000W32: There is no mode definition named "1024x768" > *** A configured device found, but display modes could not be resolved.*** > > Which error-log do you mean? The previous is from the xdm-errors. It says > that mode 1024x768 cannot be resolved. But where startx (or xinit, or xdm) > looks for "1024x768" identifier in the file-system. How this information, > 1024x768 is used starting the X-server. > > > try to start xdm in nodaemon mode to see what happened > > in real time. > Unfortunately nothing happened. > > You, see I want to backtrack the resolution of "1024x768". Maybe a file is > missing from somewhere. > > Unfortunately I have no idea, what to do! Absolutely! > > So? > > Cheers, > Peter -- WBW Andy V. Oleynik (When U work in virtual office prime.net.ua's U have good chance to obtain system administrator virtual money ö%-) +380442448363 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message