From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 9 22: 8:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fed1mtao03.cox.net (fed1mtao03.cox.net [68.6.19.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 284DC37B406 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 22:08:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 733 ([68.8.250.56]) by fed1mtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with SMTP id <20020510050821.QIGJ1378.fed1mtao03.cox.net@733> for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 01:08:21 -0400 Message-ID: <002d01c1f7e1$e9b5e9c0$6501a8c0@cox.net> From: "Tuslers PC Repair" To: Subject: X386 stuff Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 22:16:56 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_002A_01C1F7A7.3B3654A0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01C1F7A7.3B3654A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I just got FreeBSD today and spent about 6 hours trying to get it to = show me some kind of GUI desktop. The command prompt is working fine but = does not do me anygood since I do not know any commands pass inputing my = password. I am using a Voodoo 5 5500 card with a standard Super VGA monitor = 1024x768. The best I can get is showing Half the screen, its like the = screen would need 4 17" monitors to see the whole thing. I figure this = is probably 640x480 mode. When I go back in and set it to 1024x768 it = will not even start. How do I configure this. Linux and windows runs = great on this computer, I'm just surprised that this 4.5 release does = not. Thaanks for your help. ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01C1F7A7.3B3654A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

I just got FreeBSD today and spent = about 6 hours=20 trying to get it to show me some kind of GUI desktop. The command prompt = is=20 working fine but does not do me anygood since I do not know any commands = pass=20 inputing my password.

I am using a Voodoo 5 5500 card with a = standard=20 Super VGA monitor 1024x768. The best I can get is showing Half the = screen, its=20 like the screen would need 4 17" monitors to see the whole thing. I = figure this=20 is probably 640x480 mode. When I go back in and set it to 1024x768 it = will not=20 even start. How do I configure this. Linux and windows runs great on = this=20 computer, I'm just surprised that this 4.5 release does not. Thaanks for = your=20 help.

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