From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 5 0:49:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5685115280 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 00:49:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA09066; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 01:13:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 01:13:30 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Nikolaos Nikou Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation problems In-Reply-To: <38229454.92FC34E9@lmf.ericsson.se> 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 Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Nikolaos Nikou wrote: > Hello, > > I just started with freebsd and I had previous experience only with > Solaris but only as user. > > I have a notebook Zenith Z-NOTE 1000 with pentium 48MbRAM and 2G HD. > > I have installed the freebsd and the desktop environment but I cannot > get it to start. > > I have tried several configuration alternatives through the graphical > interface but every time I get that the xserver could not start. > > Is there anyway to configure the system so that it will run; > The strange thing is that the configuration of the xserver is in > graphical mode but then after that I cannot get any graphical interface. > > I do not know the card on my laptop or all the cryptic questions asked > be the configuration procedure so I choose generic VGA and whatever I > couldn't answer I left it empty Well that's not going to work, go to the company website or give them a call and find out the graphics chip on it, then get back to us with that. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message