From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 6 21:10: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rhenium.btinternet.com (rhenium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E8537B6AC for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 21:09:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ian@tirnanog.org) Received: from [62.7.74.148] (helo=host62-7-74-148.btinternet.com) by rhenium.btinternet.com with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12oINh-00063d-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 7 May 2000 05:09:25 +0100 From: Ian J Greely To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 05:09:45 +0100 Message-ID: References: <000801bfb7d0$92db7640$2623fea9@win98> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The SiS card do not work with the graphical configuration tools to my knowledge. regards, Ian On Sat, 6 May 2000 23:03:27 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >Try using the script at ... > >/stand/sysinstall > >Select Configure->XFree86 > >There is a graphical configuration tool which is pretty helpful. You = can >use this instead of doing it manually. If you have a somewhat working X >configuration this will help you fix it up to get it to where you want = it >to be. > >It helps to know your monitors sync rates and your card type. Run = through >it until you get a working configuration that you like. > >Perhaps in the near future there will be a tool that is even easier to >use, but this works with some mucking around. > > >Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin >projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com > >Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? > >On Sun, 7 May 2000, Farhana Pethani wrote: > >> hey >>=20 >> I'm having major problems with configuring X for FreeBSD. First of all= the colours is at like 8bpps or something and the desktop is larger than= my actual 15" screen. When i tried to edit the XF86Config file manually = and removed the 8bpps, I got an error messaging saying: >>=20 >> "No "Display" subsection for default depth 8" >>=20 >> My video card is a SiS 620 which is supported by FreeBSD v.4.0 >> Hope you can help. >>=20 >> - FP. >>=20 > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message