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From: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Getting X to work w/i840 chip set
To: Mindy Cotner-Loomis <eternaluxe@chartermi.net>,
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--- Mindy Cotner-Loomis <eternaluxe@chartermi.net>
wrote:
> After many trials and tribulations I now come to you
> to ask for your 
> advice.  Finally I have FreeBSD running on my
> system, dual booting no 
> less, with Windows ME (yuck).
> I plan on losing Windows here, but not until I have
> a gui for UNIX.  
> I've got X86 4.1 intsalled and have had no luck
> getting the gui to run.  
> I have set it up for i810 chipset and have also
> added the line 'Option 
> "NoDDC"' to the config file, so my initial problems
> have been solved.  
> (what a pain!)  Now when X loads, my screen goes all
> funky w/ colors and 
> pixels.  It is a flatscreen.  I have the manual for
> it and have tried it 
> at all levels of resolution with all possible v and
> h refresh rates 
> listed as compatible.  No luck.  Any ideas?
> I want to make the switch to UNIX, but this is
> really kicking my ass.  
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> -Patrick Cotner
> eternaluxe@chartermi.net

The problem could be your settings for Horizsync,
VertRefresh, or DefaultDepth.  Have you checked those?

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould

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