Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:38:21 -0400 (EDT) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: Talbot <cwtalbot@intellex.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Screen size Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1031009132053.13550A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <001a01c38e79$407c97c0$71624541@hppav>
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Yea - I keep submitting a request to the XFree86 folk. I have never had success with the graphifical program. Use one of the text based programs. There are xf86cfg and xf86config, as I recall. Basicall you need the Horizontal and Vertical rates and you need to make sure the screen size and depth can be handled by your video card and monitor. Either of the text based programs will lead you through the appropriate questions. http://www.xfre86.org and the newbies mailing list can help. On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Talbot wrote: > > > Greetings > I recently installed FreeBSD 4.5 with desk top KDE using a CD that came with the book, FreeBSD Unleashed, by Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann. Everything seemed to go fine until I execute startx. The desktop environment on my screen "seems" to be at least four times as big as it should be, displaying only the top left portion of the desktop. > > The strange part of this problem is that the install program displays all of the display option screens in the correct size and font. > > Any advice to get me going will be appreciated. > > C. W. Talbot > cwtalbot@hotmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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