From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 29 22:15:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21556 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:15:11 -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 WAA21520 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:15:02 -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 WAA23650; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:14:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:14:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Mike Shimony cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setup Problems In-Reply-To: <35167B4C.D3D33939@thunder.ocis.temple.edu> 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 Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Mike Shimony wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a few problems setting up FreeBSD to run on my > system. > > 1. Beside looking at the hardware is there a way to > determine the address and irq of devices? If the hardware is working under another OS, check it's settings. > 2. I have Compudyne KD-1700V Monitor and a Diamond Speed > Star Pro Video Card. While setting up Xwindows I entered the > ranges for Horizontal (30-82kHz) and Vertical (50-120Hz). > When I move a window I get small white horizontal lines > flashing on the screen. And sometimes my mouse cursor turns > into a bunch of vertical bars (like a bar code). I didn't > set a clock for the video card. Should I run Xprobe even > though It says not to. I was able to get this setup to work > under Linux, and I've tried it with the same settings but it > still doesn't work. Any suggestions? It should work; Linux and FreeBSD use the same X server, XFree86. I don't know about the noise, it may be a resource conflict or chip misdetection. 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