From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 22 15:33:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A66637B71B for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:33:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsdq@yahoo.com) Received: from h2.impactidealsolutions.com (HELO support10) (216.98.200.91) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Mar 2001 23:33:31 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:35:08 -0700 X-Priority: 3 From: Peter X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: k7ns@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re:Help Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.57 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's one thing I've seen, is if the X server does not start first time second time the config doesn't even start straight. Do 'ctrl+alt+backspace' to kill it, and then go into config mode again. My problem I've noticed is to first better try with 24 bit color or less to see if that works and just narrow down your problem from there, or even try a smaller resolution and build from a working Xconfiguration. On 03/22/2001 9:02:11 AM, "John Mich" is quoted as saying: . . . .|Hey I can't get X windows running. When I'm setting up the xFree86 3.3.6 in . . . .|a grahical setup. I selected my right Video card "S3 Savage rev 4" and the . . . .|resolution 1024 * 768 and 32 bit color. After that it start the testing, I . . . .|waited about a few sec, until I got this message "Can't start server, Would . . . .|you like to try again" when I click enter to try again. The screen shows a . . . .|black and white color and the resolution was bad. And the computer just hang . . . .|there. . . . .|___________________________________________________________ ______ . . . .|Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com . . . .| . . . .| . . . .|To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org . . . .|with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message