From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Apr 11 10: 8:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 824B637BB8F for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:08:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA3411; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:09:32 -0700 Message-ID: <38F35BAC.18BAE819@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:06:52 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Max Kool Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dillema... References: <20000411025617.81746.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Max Kool wrote: > Firstly, it wouldn't multi-boot even though I told him > to when I installed it. Or is there a key I should have pressed when > it went "LILO boot..."? Yes, there was a key :-) Either type in the profile name, or hit TAB for a list of profiles. > Anyway, I got over that and then spent an > hour and a half trying to get GNOME to use 800x600x16bpp. > I ran xconf a couple hundred times (well.. :-)) but it would either use > the normal 640x480x8bpp or it just wouldn't start telling me that > no video modes are usable. Try other X configuration programs. I had a heck of a time with Xconfigurator and xf86config, and then I stumbled upon XF86Setup (which is the standard util) and it worked great for me. > So call me > stupid, but I couldn't install FreeBSD. Ah well, I'll try again and > eventually succeed. FreeBSD is not the newbies OS. Don't sweat it. > Hey you UNIX gurus don't need Corel Linux. It's for us newbies that > can't get RedHat or FreeBSD to run :-) Well, I couldn't get Corel Linux to install on mine! As indicated in the XFree86 documentation, you are not supposed to probe my video card. But Corel insisted on doing it anyway, resulting in a reboot everytime. Nowhere was there an option to do it any other way... David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message