Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:34:53 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 won't run with ATI RADEON Message-ID: <20070128063237.A9B3.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <c05.edb2523.32ed603a@aol.com> References: <c05.edb2523.32ed603a@aol.com>
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On Saturday January 27, 2007 at 09:11:06 (PM) BrendaBPowers wrote: > I am new to Unix and purchased a copy of FreeBSD 5.2.1 from Fry's to begin > learning. FreeBSD is used at my work and I wish to learn the OS myself. Hoping > that an integrated package would be easier to install and have all the packages > I needed, I bought this version. > > My system is thus: > - Compaq Presario with Pentium D > - 512 MB ram > - 200GB drive > - ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 graphics card > - NEC 1740CX multisync monitor > > After installation the 'startx' command will not start the GUI KDE. I get an > error message ' no screens found'. > > I have tried all the combinations of horizontal-vertical sync that are within > the range of my monitor but all fail. I have tried every one of the different > resolutions that are within the horizontal-vertical sync range of my monitor > but all fail. Here are additional problems: > - The XFree86 installer has no entry for the ATI RADEON device > - The XFree86 installer has no entry for the NEC 1740CX monitor > > Since I am completely new to Unix I do not know how to send you the log file. > I am using a different system to install Unix than my Internet connected > system. > > I am sure others have seen problems with the graphics portion of > installation. This must be a common problem. I had exactly the same problem installing > Suse Linux before trying to use FreeBSD. I found that with Suse, if I installed > at the lowest resolution the OS would resolve the problem during the first boot > and reset the resolution to the max. size. FreeBSD does not do this. You might be able to gleam some useful information from this URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html -- Gerard For AOL (L)Users: "RAM Disk" is not an installation procedure.
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