From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 22:32:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E5B37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:32:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ettnet.se (mail.ettnet.se [212.109.4.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3208143E54 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:32:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tw@ettnet.se) Received: (qmail 23132 invoked by uid 0); 3 Jul 2002 05:32:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chappe2) (212.109.5.128) by mail.ettnet.se with SMTP; 3 Jul 2002 05:32:47 -0000 Message-ID: <012a01c22253$113b8ae0$80056dd4@chappe2> From: "Thomas Widlundh" To: "James" Cc: "freeBSD" References: <00b101c22227$a54c38a0$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> Subject: Re: Help please! Still Problems with XFree86 -configure on FreeBSD 4.6 -release Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 07:32:08 +0200 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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- >From: "James" >I've been struggling with this problem nearly every waking hour since late >Saturday night. >I'm a newbie to running Unix, so please bear with me. I just installed >FreeBSD for the first time Saturday night. >I'm using FreeBSD 4.6 -release and XFree86 4.2.0 >I'm using an AOpen NVidia GeForce 3 Ti200 card with 128MB of DDR RAM, which >XFree86.org claims is supported by version 4.2.0 > >Is anyone using a video card like mine successfully? > >I cannot configure XFree86 with any of these commands: >XFree86 -configure >xf86cfg >X -configure ------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, The configure command is xf86config (note the size of the characters). You can try to use xf98config as well. They are both residing in /usr/X11R6/bin. They will write and save the XF86Config file. Otherwise you can config X from the install CD with /stand/sysinstall and choose the X86Config option (I don't recall the exact name of the option). Note: I've noted that X is extremely sensitive about i.e. the mouse protocol. The wrong protocol and X will not start. This is about PS/2, IMPS/2 and so on, so try different protocols. See: man XF86Config. You'll have to do all this as root of course. You can edit XF86Config (in /etc) directly with the editor vi, and change i.e. the protocol, and then directly try to start X to see if it worked. You.ll have to know how to use vi. Se: man vi. I think there is a tutor as well. But first you are recommended to copy the (/etc/)XF86Config to e.g. XF86Config-orig, or something with: cp XF86Config XF86Config-orig If you mess up XF86Config after a lot of tries and changes, you can make a new fresh one from the *-orig by cp XF86Config-orig XF86Config You can log in as root as soon as the OS started. Then you can log in as root again after Alt+F2. You can then switch between Atl+F1 and Alt+F2, editing X in Alt+F1 and read the man in Alt+F2. It's like two separate computers in a way. God luck, Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message