From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 6 22:48:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dune.clickarray.com (adsl-63-197-76-246.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.197.76.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAF5437B9F5 for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 22:48:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sshah@dune.clickarray.com) Received: (from sshah@localhost) by dune.clickarray.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA18737; Tue, 9 Jan 1990 19:48:32 -0800 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1990 19:48:32 -0800 From: Steve Shah To: Brennan W Stehling Cc: Ian J Greely , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <19900109194832.A18734@clickarray.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 11:20:40PM -0500, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > 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. I cheated in a similar way to get X working with a card that wasn't explicitly listed in the card list and a monitor that definately wasn't listed. I created a RedHat installed on a 340M disk that I use to run Xconfigurator which does a pretty reasonable job of autodetecting. Once I had that as a basis, I could easily move it over to a FreeBSD box and get it working with a few tweaks. (e.g. changing the font server, etc.) For the monitor (which wasn't listed in Xconfigurator's database), I used the following web site to help me create a modeline: http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec/linux/modeline/ Best of luck. -Steve -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Steve Shah (sshah@clickarray.com) | Developer/System Administrator/Res. DJ http://www.clickarray.com | Voice: 408.772.8202 (e-mail preferred) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beating code into submission, one OS at a time... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message