From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 18:30:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D2137B423 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8F1U1h35413; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:00:01 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:00:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Stephen Beitzel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting X11 to work Message-ID: <20000915110001.H71517@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200009150103.e8F13VF14260@sf-gw.envolved.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200009150103.e8F13VF14260@sf-gw.envolved.com>; from sbeitzel@envolved.com on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:03:19PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 14 September 2000 at 18:03:19 -0700, Stephen Beitzel wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD several times, now, on different machines, but > I have never managed to get X11 working successfully. Since there's a > big section of the ports tree that is devoted to X11 and since I've seen > messages to -questions and to -stable regarding behaviors of X11 apps, I > assume that *someone* has accomplished what I have not. Is there a HOWTO > or something that I could look at? > > For example, here's a hardware system that I've set up and installed > FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE on: > > ABIT KA-7 motherboard with an Athlon 750 > 128MB RAM > Netgear 10/100 PCI Ethernet card > Aureal Vortex 2 PCI sound card > Diamond Speedstar A90 AGP (16MB) video card > Western Digital Caviar 13GB hard drive > LITE-ON 48x CD-ROM > Mitsubishi 1.44 floppy drive > 104-key keyboard from CompUSA (yeah, it has the silly Windows keys) > Logitech wheelmouse (PS/2 connector) > > Now, when I ran /stand/sysinstall and tried to configure X11, I was able > to get into the configuration tool (XF86Config?) but there was no entry > for this particular video card. I guessed, but I must have guessed > incorrectly since when the configurator tried to start the X11 server > with the configuration I'd built, Nothing Happened. Trying to run the > configuration again didn't work at all -- the application just hung. Try running SuperProbe and seeing what it tells you. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message