From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 28 11:34:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE7516A400 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:34:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5048B13C461 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:34:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so1303803wxc for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:34:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.50.18 with SMTP id x18mr10451174wxx.1169984090777; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:34:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.4? ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id g9sm13478754wra.2007.01.28.03.34.49; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:34:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:34:53 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert To: User Questions Organization: Seibercom.NET In-Reply-To: References: X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20070128063237.A9B3.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.30.01 [en] Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 won't run with ATI RADEON X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: User Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:34:51 -0000 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.