From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 16:31:21 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA03562 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 16:31:21 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA03551 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 16:31:19 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA15023; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 09:12:15 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507132342.JAA15023@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: X Problem To: steinber@SLINKY.CS.NYU.EDU (Joseph Steinberg) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 09:12:15 +0930 (CST) Cc: Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Joseph Steinberg" at Jul 13, 95 10:40:33 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1817 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Joseph Steinberg stands accused of saying: > > 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...) 1) Don't keep the config file in /etc; it doesn't belong there. 2) Use the xf86config program to write the config file, it has a useful database of suitable modes built-in. By default, there's a Virtual 1100x900 line in many XF86Config files; removing this will give a virtual screen the size of the highest supported resolution. > 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...) You've got the X server running, but no window manager. The best way to start X is by replacing the getty entry in /etc/ttys for the vconsole that you're running X on with one that looks like : ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure All of this is in the (very easy to read) documentation for XFree86. > | | ___ ___ ___ _ __ | |__ Joseph Steinberg -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[