Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 18:45:24 +0800 From: - U L Y - <mvrck@snap.portalinc.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Configuring the X Window Message-ID: <355D6E44.4E62D0A5@portalinc.com>
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Dear Sirs,
I am one of the Technicians here in our company (Portal, Inc.
[www.portalinc.com]) which is located in Metro Manila, in the
Philippines. I recently downloaded a bunch of stuffs from your ftp
site... (FreeBSD release 2.2.6 and its almost complete package...
including the XFree86) and installed them on one of the PCs here. I have
successfully installed and configured the networks and is working very
fine now...
But the problem is... when I started setting up the Xfree86, it seems
that i couldn't make the X server start properly, why is this? BTW, the
specs of the computer I have installed FreeBSD into is this:
Intel DX4-100 Overdrive
12M Memory
A Mouse (Of Course)
2 Seagate IDE Harddisk drive
Primary Master 540 Meg Capacity (This is where FreeBSD is
installed)
Primary Slave 640 Meg Capacity (This is where the FreeBSD
sources are and this is DOS Partitioned)
3Com 3C509 Ethernet card
S3 Gendac Video card (S3 86C805, 1MB Ram, GENDAC Super-VGA)
The thing is, I use the XF86Setup to setup the X Server, I went through
the routine of selecting various devices:
for the mouse, I chose Microsoft mouse
for the keyboard, U.S. Standard, 101 Key
for the card, S3 801/805 with S3 Gendac
for the monitor, Super VGA 800 X 600 @ 56 Hz
for the mode selection, 640 X 480 with 8BPP color depth
(I also tried on another session these settings: 800 X 600 8BPP color
depth and another on: 800 X 600 16BPP color depth)
for the other, I chose the default settings
after these, it tried to start the X server and another graphical screen
comes out that says I have the options of saving the current screen
settings or run 'xvidtune' to allign the sreen. So, as a beginner, I
just save the current config and exit (it looks perfectly alligned with
the current monitor). Afterwards... it ask me to make an alias of X on a
specified directory and the next window tells me that it was
successful... afterwards...I shut it down and reboot the PC, after
logging in, I type X and then the screen turns into grey with a big X
for a cursor inside the screen...and it just stays there for i don't
know how long... ( I tried leaving it for 2 hours and when i came back,
it is still there, no change in the screen, although the cursor can move
around freely,)
What had happened? Is it the way i configured it or my devices don't
support the settings I gave them?
Please advise me on what to do or if you have an online manual
regarding this problem, can you please e-mail it back to me, or if you
have some documentation about this matter can you please e-mail it to
me ...
Hoping for your very fast response....
Thanks a lot in advance...
- U L Y -
mvrck@portalinc.com
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