From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 22:51:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B590E16A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:51:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from web14611.mail.yahoo.com (web14611.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A91743D2F for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:51:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from plageotakes@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040131065157.26392.qmail@web14611.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [69.3.222.181] by web14611.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:51:57 PST Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:51:57 -0800 (PST) From: peter lageotakes To: Matt Juszczak , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20040130154214.Y42855@sparky.webaries.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: X Windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 06:51:58 -0000 --- Matt Juszczak 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/