Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 07:49:03 +0100 From: Richard Morte <ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> To: whitehat@home.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bad resolution Message-ID: <37FEE55F.E38B87B8@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> References: <37FE5446.6353C34B@home.com>
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whitehat@home.com wrote: > > Ok..I got X up and running, but there's one small thing wrong. I told > it to go 640x480 (my win95/linux resolution) but for some reason X only > goes to the top right of my screen, and everytime it starts my monitor > identifies it as a "new video", which did not happen with Xfree86 in > Linux. I tried the xvidtune program, but it looked a little scary. > Another reason might be that I defined my monitor vertical sync rate > 50-120, and my horizontal sync rate as 30-85. Should I just use a > number in between those? Like instead of 50-120 should I use 90? > > I also suffer failure at the hands of KDE. I have a suspicion that the > packages for KDE are scattered among the other 3 CD's...because when I > begin to install KDE (from the second Cd) it begins to install, but > stops after it cannot find a package on the CD. Whats going on? The > error is like this "Unable to fetch package kdelib from selected media. > No package add will be done." > > Help > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Are you using the gui or the text-based version for setting up Xfree86? I had many problems using the gui version with a more or less single mode 640x400 VGA monitor, but had very good results with the text-based version. First thing is to have your monitor specs to hand. You must get them *exactly* right or you could find yourself driving your monitor beyond its intended range - and paying for the resultant damage. If you know the vert refresh rate of your monitor at the screen resolution you intend to use, specify this as a single value if you can. If you use the text-based interface it will generate a much larger XF86Config file than via the gui interface. It will create lots of modeline statements in the MONITOR section, many of which will be redundant - but you can leave them in because X will reject invalid ones when it starts up. Further down the file you can check the values for your DEVICE (card) and bring the whole thing together in the SCREEN section. I do recommend going through this file by hand if you are having problems. Remember - please don't make up any numbers, get the right ones first. And don't worry about xvidtune. Get your display working first and only use xvidtune if you need to tweak it. xvidtune won't cure a broken Config file. Finally, I'm not sure what you mean by "X only goes to the top right of the screen". Do you mean that the raster is at the top right (surely not) or that the raster fills the screen but my image is only at the top right? Are you using the basic twm? Check the contents of .xinitrc in your home directory. If it has something like exec startkde then it configured OK for kde; if it has something like twm & \ xterm -geometry etc,etc it is configured for simple X-windows and you will need to change it. If you mean that you get an X-window only at the top right, it looks like it's configured for twm with the position of your terminal window being dictated by the geometry settings in .xinitrc. As to the "Unable to fetch package kdelib..." message, I had this in 3.2-RELEASE, but kde worked just fine. If it still doesn't work then someone else will need to help you over this hurdle - I don't know the answer. Hope you get it working OK. Ric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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