From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 30 01:55:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8684016A4CE for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:55:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp109.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp109.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 563F343D2D for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:55:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lloyd545220-trucker@yahoo.com) Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.50.205.109?) (wyoming?antelope@204.110.228.83 with plain) by smtp109.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Oct 2004 01:55:38 -0000 Message-ID: <4182F497.8040407@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:55:35 -0600 From: Lloyd Hayes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." References: <4182C0A9.8040701@yahoo.com> <4182CE6A.60708@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <4182CE6A.60708@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg86 -config error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:55:38 -0000 These two pages are part of the same online document which you can download in PDF format. http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/doc/newport2.html http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/doc/newport3.html Lloyd Hayes Email: lloyd545220-trucker@yahoo.com URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Lloyd Hayes wrote: > >> I think that I have this figured out. >> >> On the X.Org website under New Port Users, it says that it only >> supports 1280x1024 mode and color depths of only 8 and 24 bit. >> >> My old laptop has a 800x600 screen and 16 bit color depth. >> (For that matter, my newest laptop only has a 1024x768 pixel screen!) >> >> > > That doesn't seem quite reasonable --- XFree86 doesn't have any > such constraints, why should its successor? I just don't think that > the Project would have switched to X.Org if it wasn't up to snuff. > What is the URI of the page to which you refer? > > The first thought that popped into my head upon reading your > first post is that you weren't "root" at the time you tried the > command .... > > Kevin Kinsey > DaleCo, S.P. > >