Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:06:01 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Debashis Ghosh <debighosh@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Optiplex issue with Free BSD Message-ID: <20011019090601.D75197@jonc.itouch> In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F435n00zepDI8N0000aafa@hotmail.com>; from debighosh@hotmail.com on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:45:09AM %2B0800 References: <LAW2-F435n00zepDI8N0000aafa@hotmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:45:09AM +0800, Debashis Ghosh wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 Dell Optiplex GX150 desktops....specs are Pentium 3 @ 1Ghz , 512 MB > RAM and Intel 815 Chipset with 20 GB HDD. I was running Red Hat Linux 7.1 on > one of them and it runs XWindows without issues. I am running FreeBSD on the > other box....although FreeBSD is a lot faster than Linux I have a major > issue....I cannot get X Windows to work on the Free BSD box.... I have tried > all the possible solutions that I could find on the web.... I upgraded the X > Windows version, loaded the agpgart module and even tried the patch given on > the Intel website.... however X windows refuses to work. I can get XF86 to > work only in one mode generic SVGA....that wouldn't have been so bad but the > problem is the screen resolution is limited to only 600 x 480 ...... that is > too small a desktop for my requirements....any attempt to change the > resolution causes the XF86 server to crash. > > I am at a loss how to fix this.....Any help will be highly appreciated. Have a look at the questions archive. Key words: i810 XFree86 agp Lots of answers to your questions. -- Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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