From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 10 4:11:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from carbon.slackerbsd.org (cn434050-d.wall1.pa.home.com [24.40.72.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081B037B401 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 04:11:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@slackerbsd.org) Received: by carbon.slackerbsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1029) id 8B8F710D501; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:11:11 +0000 From: Carl Schmidt To: "Michael J. Turner" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X Message-ID: <20010810111111.A49634@slackerbsd.org> References: <003f01c1218c$5ec9b520$0504a8c0@daimon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003f01c1218c$5ec9b520$0504a8c0@daimon> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-PGP-Key: http://slackerbsd.org/~carl/carl_schmidt.asc 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 On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 06:05:29AM -0500, Michael J. Turner wrote: > Hi, theres a problem i have been having for a while now. > its with X windows. XFree86-4 and 3.3.6 i have tired this on. > with XFree86-4 when i do xf86cfg to get the visual configuration > it just craps out, like i cant make out whats on the screen. > i have tried other video cards and monitors with no luck at all. > so i tired the console config and theres no luck either. > Im totally running out of ideas. I have herd some people > with this prob also in IRC. If anyone has any suggestions > or soloutions i would greatly appreciated it. > > Thank you. Well, I honestly don't know why xf86cfg does that because it does the same thing to me. My suggestion is to use xf86config instead since it just uses the console. Is there some particular reason you need to use xf86cfg? -- Carl Schmidt Just like the pied piper led rats through the streets We dance like the marionettes swaying to the symphony of destruction. http://slackerbsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message