From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 6 21:20:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67DE37B6AC for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 21:20:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA70356; Sat, 6 May 2000 23:20:41 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 23:20:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling To: Ian J Greely Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I thought I had SiS working before. Maybe you need a working config file to start it up though. I actually cheated when I set up my X config. I ran the easy install for Caldera Linux which has a nice autodetect system for the video and audio and copied the config files to a floppy. Then I used that to fine tune the X config on the the FreeBSD side. It would be nice if the config tool that Caldera could be simply put on a floppy and run as a tool for other systems to simply generate a working X config file instead of actually doing a full Linux install. Perhaps this is possible and I am not aware of such a tool. Anyone know a of such a tool or a reason this cannot happen? Why not take that easy autodetection software from Caldera Linux and use it in the FreeBSD installation process? 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, Ian J Greely wrote: > 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 > >> > >> 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: > >> > >> "No "Display" subsection for default depth 8" > >> > >> My video card is a SiS 620 which is supported by FreeBSD v.4.0 > >> Hope you can help. > >> > >> - FP. > >> > > > > > > > >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message