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From: "Aaron Burke" <aburke@nullplusone.com>
To: "Robert L. Bostic" <neozulu@attbi.com>
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Subject: RE: Monitor & video configuration on a laptop
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:18:28 -0700
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> > > I successfully installed FreeBSD 4.6 on a Sony PCG-FXA47 laptop.
> > > However,  I was unable to find a monitor and video card setting
> > > that will allow me to startx. Startx fails complaining of being
> > > unable to find a usable configuration. After several days of trial
> > > and error, I was compelled to give up and conclude that 4.6 has no
> > > monitor/video card settings compatible with my laptop. Does anyone
> > > know of a work around that I use? Thanks.

> > For starters, what is the model number of the video card? Who
> > makes it? Also, dont worry about the monitor definition. That is
> > generally not a problem at all.

> The information you requested is as follows:
> 
> Card model: ATI Rage Mobility-M1 AGP
> Ram: 8.00 MB
> Driver: ati2drab.dll
> Driver version: 6.13.10.5779
> Resolution: 1024x768x60 hertz
> Bits/pixel: 32

Fantastic, now we have some info to start looking up. This has now
been forwarded to freebsd-questions for now, people with similar 
hardware should also be able to tell you how they got it working.

Also, was this install an upgrade? Did you have an older version
of X11 on this box? If this was an install on a new box, try 
changing to roots home directory and do 'XFree86 -configure'.
The machine is going to try and configure several things. When its
done, it should tell you how to launch X-Windows with the new 
config file.

> Any assistance that you can render will be greatly appreciated. 

Thats what some of us are here to do.

> > > Robert
> > > neozulu@attbi.com

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