From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 13: 6:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5373337B408 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15uJQZ-0000Fq-00; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:06:03 +1300 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9IK61v75427; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:06:01 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:06:01 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Debashis Ghosh Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Optiplex issue with Free BSD Message-ID: <20011019090601.D75197@jonc.itouch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from debighosh@hotmail.com on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:45:09AM +0800 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 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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