Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 10:40:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Steinberg <steinber@SLINKY.CS.NYU.EDU> To: Nik Clayton <Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Problem Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950713103825.18499F-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> In-Reply-To: <10905.9507130905@molnir.brunel.ac.uk>
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On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Nik Clayton wrote:
> The first is your monitor positioning. That's easy to fix. Go into
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and edit XF86Config (make sure you don't have a copy
I keep the config file in /etc so I edit it there. Apparently, after hours
of tweaking, I now see that the monitor is running in 1280x1024 for real
and virtual mode -- how do I set it to go into 800x600 for real and for
virtual. (My monitor does not do 1280x1024 -- but it is trying to -- not
so good for the hardware...)
I now get a console window. But no menu when I click on the screen with
the mouse (using any buttons). Is this correct? (I don't think so...)
> Your looking for the "Modeline" entry for whichever resolution your
> using. You need to tweak a couple of parameters to shift the picture
> back into place. The process is documented in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/VideoModes.doc, so I won't duplicate it here.
>
> The second sounds like bits of your window system (the window manager
> specifically) aren't starting up properly. Try doing
>
> startx >& /tmp/startx.error
>
> which will redirect any error messages to the file /tmp/startx.error,
> which you can then inspect and try and spot some likely candidates for
> problems.
>
> Rather than turning your machine off if X hangs, try doing
> <CTRL><ALT><BACKSPACE>, which should kill the X server and return you to
> the prompt.
>
> N
> =-[Opinion, n: See the above text for an example]=-=[Kibo #: e]-[RYRYRY]=-=
> =-[The Silly Sod Society: To perfect and to swerve]=-[beable]-=[TP U BG]=-=
> Down with categorical imperative!
>
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