Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 08:33:02 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Jamie Wright" <yhiannah@itlnet.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: help!!! Message-ID: <005a01c0d9a1$30186100$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <000801c0d99c$1b52a320$9e0de2d8@win32>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I think a lot of people have had major problems getting open source X to work properly. I gave it up as a lost cause, but then my FreeBSD systems are all webservers / gateways / etc & there isn't any particular reason to run X. Its quite a different exercise with the Solaris & SCO (CDE) renditions .... everything works brilliantly providing one has a supported videocard .... I've always had extremely good results with ATI Rage Pro, but the HCL includes quite a list of commonly available devices. I'll be interested however to see what responses that posting generates. My guess is that the detection routine for the videocard chipset is badly broken but maybe there are at least one or two videocards that do work without aggro. How about bog standard "common or garden variety" S3 Trio / Virge or even Tseng ET6000 / ET6100 ?? Not everyone wants or needs "you beaut" 128Mb / turbocharged / watercooled gameplayer specials :) ........ and for those Matrox fanatics out there, I refuse to pay over $AU400 for ANY videocard (which is what I was quoted a while back) ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamie Wright To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 7:56 AM Subject: help!!! To whom it may concern, I cant get X to install. I installed FreeBSD and rebooted, logged in, and typed "startx" and it couldent find it. Perhapse this was due to a message i recieved during installation that said "Xfree86 3.xxx could not be installed" and the only option was the "abort" option. I have a voodoo banshee card, and I dont think its the graphics card. I had 6 gigs to work with. do i just start over and try to install ALL of the ports? the install only used the first CD. I just bought the FreeBSD powerpak 4.2 from amazon.com because I hate Linux. I just want to use a UNIX-type OS. What do I do???????? Help, please!!!!!!! Sincerely, Robert Gallimore yhiannah@itlnet.net [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2462.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think a lot of people have had major problems getting open source X to work properly. I gave it up as a lost cause, but then my FreeBSD systems are all webservers / gateways / etc & there isn't any particular reason to run X. Its quite a different exercise with the Solaris & SCO (CDE) renditions .... everything works brilliantly providing one has a supported videocard .... I've always had extremely good results with ATI Rage Pro, but the HCL includes quite a list of commonly available devices.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'll be interested however to see what responses that posting generates. My guess is that the detection routine for the videocard chipset is badly broken but maybe there are at least one or two videocards that do work without aggro. How about bog standard "common or garden variety" S3 Trio / Virge or even Tseng ET6000 / ET6100 ?? Not everyone wants or needs "you beaut" 128Mb / turbocharged / watercooled gameplayer specials :) ........ and for those Matrox fanatics out there, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I refuse to pay over $AU400 for ANY videocard (which is what I was quoted a while back)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=yhiannah@itlnet.net href="mailto:yhiannah@itlnet.net">Jamie Wright</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG href="mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG">freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 11, 2001 7:56 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> help!!!</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To whom it may concern,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I cant get X to install. I installed FreeBSD and rebooted, logged in, and typed "startx" and it couldent find it. Perhapse this was due to a message i recieved during installation that said "Xfree86 3.xxx could not be installed" and the only option was the "abort" option. I have a voodoo banshee card, and I dont think its the graphics card. I had 6 gigs to work with. do i just start over and try to install ALL of the ports? the install only used the first CD. I just bought the FreeBSD powerpak 4.2 from amazon.com because I hate Linux. I just want to use a UNIX-type OS. What do I do???????? Help, please!!!!!!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sincerely,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Robert Gallimore</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>yhiannah@itlnet.net</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>help
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