Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:51:57 -0800 (PST) From: peter lageotakes <plageotakes@yahoo.com> To: Matt Juszczak <matt@atopia.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Windows Message-ID: <20040131065157.26392.qmail@web14611.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040130154214.Y42855@sparky.webaries.com>
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--- Matt Juszczak <matt@atopia.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > About 6 months ago, I was having trouble generating > my X config file (so > that it would run in 800x600, etc. etc.). The > command line config would > work but I would never know my video card, etc. > Then someone told me a > utility to use that actually automatically detected > my video card and > generated the config for me. I don't believe I even > had to install > anything extra.... Configurator? or something like > that. Any ideas? > > Thanks! > > -matt > > --------------------------- > Matthew Juszczak > matt@webaries.com > 888-588-0556 x. 84 > --------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Here is a quick and dirty way of getting your card detected and getting x up fast. The command below will build a skeleton file. XFree86 -configure Step 2: copy the file to /etc/X11 and remove the .new extension. cp XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config Then either go into /stand/sysinstall and do a post configuration setup. Select X server and use ncurses based interface to edit your monitor and keyboard settings. Double check all the settings to make sure they are correct. Instead of going into /stand/sysinstall you could actually use: xf86cfg --textmode which is the same ncurses based installer. The advantage for myself is that almost all possible tweaks and settings are set inside the file for tuning at a later date. You can go and use the same ncurses installer via /stand/sysinstall but it wont add all the settings. Just my 2 cents worth, hope it helps. Pete ===== ESCape with VI. Cheese A La mode. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/
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