From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 26 17:14:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sm0101.promedia.net (sm0101.promedia.net [209.160.170.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13332152A9 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:14:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from natedawg@office.ompages.com) Received: from office.ompages.com (mail@ppp-209-160-172-52.01.promedia.net [209.160.172.52]) by sm0101.promedia.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA30548 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:14:24 -0800 Received: from natedawg by office.ompages.com with local (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) id 11rWHr-0002aG-00 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:04:27 -0800 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:04:27 -0800 From: Nate Puri To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Ports and X Message-ID: <19991126170427.A9922@office.ompages.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > yah, XF86Setup is the way. There is also Xconfigurator or some such > program that'll help you out some if you don't have the former. > > Quite honestly, RedHat Linux has great installation support here, so I just > stole the appropraite sections from my XF86Config file from that machine and > copied it over. Much better :-) > > marc. Thanks, I managed to solve this problem. I needed to RTFM. ;) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nate Puri [mailto:natedawg@office.ompages.com] > > Sent: Fri, November 26, 1999 3:09 PM > > To: Marc Wandschneider > > Subject: Re: Problems in X and ports > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 03:09:10PM -0800, Marc Wandschneider wrote: > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Subject: Problems in X and ports > > > > > > > > 2. When I run X, everything looks fine, except for when I do > > > > opaque moves in > > > > my windowmanager (wmaker) or scroll up or down in an > > > > application. It's > > > > damn slow and choppy. Again, why? What do I fix and how? > > > > > > I would guess that this is an issue with the XFree86 > > Server's support for > > > your video card ... sometimes it's just not opimized all > > that much, or there > > > are problems with the video chipset that prevent it from > > working turbo well > > > with their way of doing things ... > > > > Using the same Xserver (3.3.5) on Debian (potato) I didn't > > have that problem > > so that's not it. Is there a way to change refresh rate or something? > > > > > you might want to post to an XFree86 newsgroup or > > mailing list and see if > > > there are any suggestions there. > > > > > > marc. > > > > > > > -- > > NatePuri publisher@ompages.com > > FreeBSD Newbie http://www.freebsd.org > > Freedom Fighter http://www.ompages.com > -- NatePuri publisher@ompages.com FreeBSD Newbie http://www.freebsd.org Freedom Fighter http://www.ompages.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message