From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 18:27:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F07D37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:27:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.acd.net (smtp.acd.net [207.179.102.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192E643FA3 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:27:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taxman@ACD.NET) Received: from Knoppix ([207.179.85.53]) by smtp.acd.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:27:55 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: taxman To: Peter van Eck , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:XF86Config. Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:29:53 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <3E48E2F2.1010508@bru-hub.dhl.com> In-Reply-To: <3E48E2F2.1010508@bru-hub.dhl.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200302112129.53178.taxman@acd.net> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Feb 2003 02:27:56.0379 (UTC) FILETIME=[5A40B2B0:01C2D23E] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 11 February 2003 12:48 pm, Peter van Eck wrote:=20 > I've installed freebsd 4.6.2. >=20 > I'm still having toruble to get my X window system to run properly. > It loads the X server succesfull but the display is isshowing 3 Vertica= l > stripes thru the Desktop. > The frequencies seem OK , but it is like the desktop is split up in 3. > USing an HP Ultra VGA 15 inch Monitior + a S3 Trio32/64 videocard . > XFree86 4.2.0 > Anyone a suggestion for me to check/change ? Easiest way I can think of is to run knoppix and take the Xfree config fi= le=20 and copy it to freebsd. Knoppix has some great hardware autodetection. = It=20 has perfectly configured x on every computer I've tried it on. besides it boots to a perfect working kde setup. I'd love to see more of= the=20 tools knoppix uses ported to freebsd. Too bad I haven't the skills mysel= f. the website is: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ and a mini iso is available here: ftp://ftp.es.debian.org./pub/miniKnoppix have fun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message