From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 7: 0:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E63037BA99 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 07:00:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mtech@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA13750; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:00:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mtech@buffnet.net) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:00:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Mohsin Rahman To: "Andresen,Jason R." Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: OT - XFree86 4.0.1 -- SOLVED In-Reply-To: <3975ABDB.D1331F19@mitre.org> 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 Jason, thanks for the pointer. I did forget to mention that I ran startx, and also had windowmaker, afterstep, blackbox and enlightenment, but none of them worked. I realised taht I should pay more attention to which XF86Config I was editing and read the FAQ more carefully. XF86Config's location changed in relase XFree86 4. I got everything working, and also sound (SB16 ISA). Just goes to show what a little reading can do. Now if I can just get the xcd/xcdplayer to play an audio cd, I would be all set. I can mount a data cd OK, just not the audio one. Well, back to the DOCs. On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Andresen,Jason R. wrote: > Mohsin Rahman wrote: > > > > I have FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE installed on a AMD Athlon. Works great. > > When I go to configure XFree86 4.0.1 from the ports collection, > > it runs thru fine, and then according to the docs, I issue: > > > > XFree86 -configure > > > > It tells me to test the new server by > > > > XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new > > > > which I do, and I get the grey screen, but nothing else. Ctrl-Alt-+ > > does not do anything, and other than just grey screen, I get nothing. > > > > Has anyone on the list gotten XFree86 4.0.1 to run with an ATI card. > > It shoud be straight forward, but cant get it to work. Thanks in > > advance. I have gone thru the docs on Xfree86.org, but still get > > stuck at this grey screen. Any pointer appreciated. > > I think your X is working, you just don't have anything running. > > Try hitting ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the X server and run the "startx" > command. It should bring up a few xterms and an ugly window manager > (twm). > Mohsin AbdulRahman MTech@BuffNET.Net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message