From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 4 22:55:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA09524 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:55:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA09464 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:54:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA26947; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:54:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:54:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: D Boss cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running X on Compaq Contura In-Reply-To: <19980605021849.22675.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, D Boss wrote: > I have installed Xfree86 3.3.2 on the FreeBSD 2.2.6 on Compaq Contura > 430 C. I used the full graphical installation method, which I believe > is using VGA16 server. After everything set up, when trying to start > X, using startx, the screen goes blank, than the server died. It said > no valid mode found- I set it to use 640*480 - 8bpp. The graphic > controller is WD90C24 A2. XFree86 3.3.1 did not like this chip on my old 486. I'm not sure it's even supported. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: gdi.uoregon.edu is going down, please use dwhite@resnet! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message