From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 5 10:42:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay1.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (www.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua [212.111.192.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C37537B418 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:42:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (eth0.comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua [10.0.1.184]) by relay1.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981242EE57; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 20:42:04 +0300 (EEST) Received: from pm5149 (pm514-9.comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua [10.18.54.109]) by comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f95HhBV13356; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 20:43:12 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <001101c14dbc$28b00820$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> From: "Andrey Simonenko" To: "Christoph Sold" Cc: References: <3BBDD7FA.1020209@web.de> <005d01c14dae$ea84bb20$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> <3BBDE439.4090904@web.de> Subject: Re: XFree86 4.1.0 xf86cfg dumps core, config file needed Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 20:38:25 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Christoph Sold Newsgroups: lucky.freebsd.questions Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 8:54 PM Subject: Re: XFree86 4.1.0 xf86cfg dumps core, config file needed > >>Hi Folks, > >> > >>running FreeBSD-4.4-Stable, CVSuped yesterday, made world, d/l'ed XF86 > >>4.1.0 from the catch-all port, make install. > >> > >>xf86cfg consistently dumps core after drawing the initial screen. After > >>that, the (default VGA) X server is still running, but no chance to do > >>anything there. > >> > >>Has anybody out there a working config file for my nVidia GeForce2 GTS > >>graphics board and a basic 17" monitor? > >> > > [snip] > > > > You can run "xf86cfg -textmode" and configure XFree86 in ncurses-menu. > > > This worked. Anyhow, I got errors: "No driver found" when using the nv > driver, "no suitable screen found" when using the generic Vesa driver. > I don't know anything about GeForce, but you can check if XFree86 supports this video card is supported on www.xfree86.org. Are you sure that generic Vesa driver is a correct choice, generic VGA driver should always work (at least it was so on X 3.x). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message