From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 8 16: 5: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx.emailqueue.net (mx.emailqueue.net [209.240.140.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 566C51569B for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 16:04:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from postmaster@paganlibrary.com) Received: from serv09.tierra.net (www09.tierranet.com [209.75.4.19]) by mx.emailqueue.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA67700 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 13:53:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from postmaster@paganlibrary.com) Received: from gunnar.my.domain (pool0189.cvx15-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.44.189]) by serv09.tierra.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA09518 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 13:53:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold Organization: The Pagan Library To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree strangeness... Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 13:50:09 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <37D6BD3D.85E1FC42@xonix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99090813520103.00389@gunnar.my.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a similar problem, (still do, but I know why now). Before I firmly plant my foot, could you run: startx > xerrors.txt to capture the errors that are otherwise slipping past? On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, Ugen Antsilevitch wrote: > All right.. I have here 4.0 snapshot from 27 of August. I also installed > XFree 3.3.4 - yes, they say it's not the best release and it does behave > weirdly but this is not the problem.. > Anyhow, i run XF86Setup and it starts X in 640x480 mode which is good. > I am able to configure it , however results never get saved and restart > of server doesn't work. I copied the same files XF86Setup uses as X > configuration file (it's in /tmp/.XF86Setupsomething etc) and tried > to run X with those files - but i only get 320x200 mode. > Now, i do have ATI Rage Fury card which as itself is not supported > by XFree yet AFAIK. But it should work in SVGA mode? Instead > SVGA server ignores all my mode settings and goes right for 320x200 built-in. > Why does it do that? How is it that XF86Setup succeedes to run X in 640x480 > with the same config file? And what the hell do i do now (short of buying another > video card)? > > --Ugen > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold Postmaster, The Pagan Library http://www.paganlibrary.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message