From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 21 06:35:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA04632 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 06:35:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emi.net (emi.net [208.10.128.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA04627 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 06:35:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com) Received: from nt (tc1-45.emi.net [208.10.129.61]) by emi.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA26314; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 07:30:34 -0400 Message-Id: <199808211130.HAA26314@emi.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "johnderk@infoserve.net" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 09:35:31 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.00.1500) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: It's right in front of you dude 8o) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Config Error: /etc/XF86Config:317 VertRefresh (null) ^^^^^^^ Vertical refresh value expected X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). This means you haven't properly configured your X configuration file. Run xf86config again or the /stand/sysinstall (go to Configure, XFree86, it has three options at that point, option 3 is only for PC98 machines, option 1 is a GUI type program and option 2 is a command line type interface). You need to tell xf86config what king of monitor you have and what it's horizontal and vertical specifications are. This is discussed in "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg and the handbook on your newly installed system (the handbook is in /usr/share/doc/handbook as handbook.html and you can use lynx to view it, if lynx doesn't exist on your system, build it (make) and install it (make install) in /usr/ports/www/lynx) For anyone brand new to FreeBSD, let me suggest that you spend the money buying "The Complete FreeBSD", which comes with four CDs packed with software and contains the info most people will need to install and configure their initial FreeBSD system. Then buy "UNIX System Administration Handbook" and a basic Unix tutorial book like one of the ones by Sobell, and/or "Unix Power Tools". I know that it's tempting to just do everything the "free" way, but it's really not free. You are passing off the cost of your learning to the user community at large. These forums (mailing lists) should be devoted to solving problems not already addressed by the existing documentation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message