From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 21:46:19 2005 Return-Path: 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 90B4016A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:46:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5B6843D2D for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:46:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nkinkade@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 956E2C623F1; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:46:16 -0500 (EST) X-Sasl-enc: 0a55k4DyqwKDvkgJplurAQ 1110923175 Received: from gentoo-npk.bmp.ub (unknown [206.27.244.136]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F9E25535; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:46:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from nkinkade by gentoo-npk.bmp.ub with local (Exim 4.21) id 1DBJre-0007ym-BN; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:46:10 -0600 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:46:10 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade To: james@icionline.ca Message-ID: <20050315214610.GP8226@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Mail-Followup-To: james@icionline.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WOTjKnJ88wpJKlWH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3FDF A406 B149 3959 A8CB C5A9 3B46 4812 D852 7E49 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice on integrated video on friends system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nathan Kinkade List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:46:19 -0000 --WOTjKnJ88wpJKlWH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:27:29PM -0700, James Earl wrote: > Hi, >=20 > A good friend of mine asked me to setup FreeBSD and GNOME on his home > computer for his family to use. It is an old IBM Aptiva. The usual > stuff works, but of course it has to have integrated video: ATI Rage > Pro Turbo chipset. >=20 > I'm running the latest Xorg in the ports tree and started with a > configuration file using 'Xorg -configure'. No matter what I've tried > (no accel, no dri, defaultdepth 8, 16, Modes 800x600, 640x480), all > the results have been the same, even when trying to run xorgcfg... > when I run startx, my monitor blanks, and either tells me it's an > unsupported video mode, or the screen just goes blank. Doing > ctrl+alt+backspace doesn't restore my text mode, but I am able to > reboot the system using ctrl+alt+del, or I can even type 'shutdown -p > now' (but nothing is displayed). >=20 > Could anyone suggest any additional course of action, or is this > chipset clearly unsupported? It's really hard for me to give up on > this... it's not too often that I get to setup someone with FreeBSD > and GNOME (has only happened to me once before this). >=20 > James I don't know about Xorg and hardware compatibility for an ATI Rage Pro chip, but from what you are describing I would tend to point to an issue with the monitor settings rather than the video card itself. If the monitor is old, then EDID information may not be available from the monitor, so Xorg may just try some default monitor setting that don't happen to work with that monitor. Have you done some searches for Hsync and Vertical Refresh rates for the monitor in question? Once you know these values (ranges), you can set them manually in the xorg.conf file under the section titled "Monitor". For example: Section "Monitor" HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 EndSection As far as losing control of the display, but apparently still having control of the keyboard, is the machine on a network? Can you possibly ssh into the box and control it remotely? Nathan --WOTjKnJ88wpJKlWH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCN1eiO0ZIEthSfkkRAukSAKCWSDCd1Dc+36wb6xt+Wc+fBsBi4wCgrTtV K85lnMsaBXv+7jED5p6vTC8= =v4gb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WOTjKnJ88wpJKlWH--