From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 8 6:54: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from lima.epix.net (lima.epix.net [199.224.64.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FBF537B408 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 06:53:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brockspc (svcr-adsl-216-37-223-34.epix.net [216.37.223.34]) by lima.epix.net (8.12.1/2001100501/PL) with SMTP id f98DrjhD000929; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 09:53:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <005d01c15000$9ea01d40$0500a8c0@brockspc> From: "Brock Kreiser" To: "Claudiu Balogh" Cc: References: <001001c14fbc$485fac00$0500a8c0@brockspc> <006001c14fd4$f3d81410$0901a8c0@claus> Subject: Re: Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 09:53:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hey all, sorry for posting in here but many thx for the help and to give you all an update i did get it up and working finaly i upgraded tp the newest vs of X and everything is fine now!!!!!!!!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claudiu Balogh" To: "Brock Kreiser" Cc: Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 4:40 AM Subject: Re: > Hi, > > It seems to me that XFree86 3.3.6 isn't capable of handling some newer > nVidia cards correctly... I have had exactly the same problem with my > GeForce 256, so I upgraded my X to ver. 4.*. XFree86 ver.4+ is changed in > structure compared to previous versions. It's more modularized and has > support for many newer cards (allegedly the nv4 driver, that I am using with > my card, supports everything through GeForce3, as I remember reading the > documentation for it). Upgrading to XFree86 is very simple, just follow the > readme files and that's all. Everything went perfectly and I am now able to > use my card with whatever resolution I please to. Maybe it's not the best > solution, but it seems to be the simplest. I experiment a lot with FreeBSD, > so I reinstall it very often. I never had a problem with upgrading to the > latest version of XFree86. Maybe there are problems but I didn't notice any. > So jump on the XFree86 ftp site and get the newest version. > > Hope this helps, > Claus. > > P.S. Question: why isn't the latest XFree86 included in FreeBSD 4.4 ? I know > this question should go to freebsd-questions, but since this problem has > come up here I thought I might just ask it. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Brock Kreiser > To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 07:44 > > > Hey all, > > Ok let first state that i am a total newbie to fbsd!!! and also im lovin > it except for X.... I no i gotta be doing something wrong someware but cant > figure it out.... I'm running 4.4R and vs.3.3.6 of X (Gnome with > Enlightment}i got fbsd runnin on a amd 700 with 128megs of ram my vid card > is a Nivida riva TNT2 with 32megs of ram.. My monitor is a gateway ev 500 > horizontal sync range is 31-69 kHz vetical is 50-100.... > i can get x to start but the display is just nasty its either 1 all grey and > no pics or the display pixels are so huge and unclear you cant see anything > at all... > for the vid card selection i tried the nvidia riva tnt2(generic) also tried > the Riva tnt 2 but either way cant get it to work... I did have it working > the first time i ran fbsd but then i messed something up severly and i ended > up formating and starting all over again (what can i say Damn Newbies) and > yes i have read over the handbook and even the complete fbsd book... but no > matter what i cant get it to work.. 1 more thing the one time i did get X to > work... when runnin xf86config my vid card was # 362 which now is 466 how > that happen i will never no but thats one of those lovely things about > computers i guess.. > > someone please help me!!!!!!!!! > > if you need more info just let me no!!!!! like i said before im just a > newbie trying to escape from microsoft :) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message