From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 19 15:30:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15160 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:30:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15040 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:30:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA00736; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:29:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:29:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: axtjr@UAA.ALASKA.EDU cc: FreeBSD Users Lists , Arkay Networking Unix list Subject: Re: X configuration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Feb 1998 axtjr@UAA.ALASKA.EDU wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.5 on a P5/166 with 32 megs of RAM. We have a > Diamond Stealth 2500 Series Video card with 2 megs of RAM. When I get SVGA > X Server to load, the desktop comes up no problem. But I have vertical > lines appearing all over the screen and the characters are virtually > unreadable (alot of distortion). I have a 15 inch monitor capable of 1280 > x 1024, whoever I've been running it in 800x600 (as well as a few tests at > 1024 x 768). Its a KDS Monitor Model VS-51, VSync 50-120, HSync 28- 70, > Refresh 1024x768, 85 Mhz. > > Anyone have any idea how to clear this problem up? I'm pretty sure the > video card is working properly. Comments? Ideas? The modelines are incorrect for your system type. Did you run xf86config to select your card and appropriate modelines? > On another minor problem, I've been evaluating the different POP3 servers > that come with FreeBSD ports. I've installed popper and ipop3d. Both work > very well, I think I like popper better for its logging ability, but I've > been unable to find any method to do any sort of configuration, or a > reference to how to resolve certain errors I get from clients. (Netscape > mail causes popper to report incorrect number of arguments during > authentication). The Netscape problem is a known bug. In general, the pop servers aren't too configurable except from the command line perhaps. Take a look through the mail archives to find out how to fix your Netscape POP problems: http://www.freebsd.org/search.html. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message