From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 5 11:37:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server1.axiomadvertising.com (server1.axiomadvertising.com [207.7.11.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565D837B407 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:37:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axiomadvertising.com ([10.0.0.227]) by server1.axiomadvertising.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f95Ibgj54648 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:37:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joe@axiomadvertising.com) Message-ID: <3BBDFDF9.2E44FF1E@axiomadvertising.com> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 13:37:46 -0500 From: Joe Guetler X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 4.1.0 xf86cfg dumps core, config file needed References: <3BBDD7FA.1020209@web.de> <005d01c14dae$ea84bb20$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> <3BBDE439.4090904@web.de> <001101c14dbc$28b00820$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Andrey Simonenko wrote: > > ----- 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). I have a Hercules Geforce DDR and found that running XFree86 -configure sets up the config file almost the way I needed it. It even recognized my monitor by name. The only thing I had to do by hand was insert the default depth and resolutions, and the middle mouse button. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message