From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 19:30:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marlo.eagle.ca (marlo.eagle.ca [209.167.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4339137B718 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 19:30:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freymann@eagle.ca) Received: from localhost (freymann@localhost) by marlo.eagle.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f342R7G40792; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 22:27:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freymann@eagle.ca) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 22:27:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Gerry Freymann To: Bates Burnell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xwindows nightmare In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Bates Burnell wrote: > I recently managed to install FreeBSD. Even got Xwindows working.. kind > of. It starts, but there is something (gee, that's specific) wrong with > the display: the virtual vertical space exceeds that of the monitor by a > great deal. Horizontally, everything seems to fit. I just got done playing with X-Windows and GNome Desktop... and for Windows Managers I have installed twm (the default), wmG, fvwm95 and so far the one I have enjoyed most, Blackbox. It took me about 3 or 4 days to escape 640x480 mode, and the problem of not being able to see the bottom of the screen, etc. Well, I "guessed" at some settings in the configuration, and these were not very good settings to guess at. I would pay close attention to what you specified for your monitor and video card. In my case, I think I actually had the right stuff for the Video Card, but completely blew the specs on the Monitor. Today, I found some specs for my very old, crappy Daytek DT-14SN monitor, re-ran the config program and voila! I'm in heaven! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gerry ... freymann@freebsd.sputnik.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message