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Date:      Wed, 12 May 2004 22:05:44 -0400
From:      Bruce Hunter <bhunter@solisix.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: instillation problem
Message-ID:  <40A2D7F8.70607@solisix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040512180316.42bc8976@vixen42.>
References:  <000c01c43832$43440cf0$e72bbada@none> <20040512180316.42bc8976@vixen42.>

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Vulpes Velox wrote:

>On Wed, 12 May 2004 23:02:10 +0800
>"Jeremy Saville" <jemsav@iafrica.com> wrote:
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>>Hello
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>>I'm installing freebsd on a i386 machine, using the iso image off
>>linuxiso.org
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>>Once I configure my mouse and keyboard (ps/2 mouse, microsoft
>>natural keyboard) the text goes completely wonky. Huge gaps between
>>lettering and I cannot read any of the instructions beyond that
>>point.
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>>Please can you point me in the direction of the relevant FAQ.
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>Trying to config X?
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>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
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>also, check out xf86cfg -textmode
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you are getting that problem b/c you aren't configuring X correctly. 
what display adapter do you have? you are selecting / configuring it wrong.
Bruce..



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