From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 18:40:34 2003 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 7C87B16A4B3 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 18:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-d04.mx.aol.com (imo-d04.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC1D43FE1 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 18:40:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from JGrunberg@aol.com) Received: from JGrunberg@aol.com by imo-d04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id n.54.1a294443 (25711) for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:40:27 -0400 (EDT) From: JGrunberg@aol.com Message-ID: <54.1a294443.2cb6168b@aol.com> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:40:27 EDT To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 8.0 for Windows sub 6018 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 06:22:15 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Hello! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 01:40:34 -0000 Hello, my name is Erik and I have a great love for alternative OS's, and I just want to comment on FreeBSD 5.0 and how I like it so far. Ever since I got FreeBSD 4.4(sometime ago?!), I have had reccuring problems with some parts of the installation. As far as the main installation goes, that is working GREAT! But, with the KDE desktop and the X server, I cannot get a perfect 100% install of the x server. My current monitor is a Gateway 2000 Vivitron, I believe its a 17 inch monitor.. I inputed the correct Vertical and Horizontal frequencies as well as the correct video card I have, but for some reason X server does not provide a signature file for ATI RAGE FURY PRO 32 MB video card. What to do!??!? I donnot want to blow my monitor or card!! Also, I have a sound blaster 16 PCI card(PNP), and even 5.0 FreeBSD still reports it as UNKNOWN DEVICE.. What can I do to resolve these errors so that I can migrate 100% over to FreeBSD and abandon Winblowz by Microsoft?? "A concerned FreeBSD user" Erik