From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 30 03:11:45 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 DCB6A16A4CE for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 03:11:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D22643D39 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 03:11:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:08:09 -0500 Message-ID: <41830671.3040107@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:11:45 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lloyd Hayes References: <4182C0A9.8040701@yahoo.com> <4182CE6A.60708@daleco.biz> <4182F7E6.3030606@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4182F7E6.3030606@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2004 03:08:10.0513 (UTC) FILETIME=[AFC7D010:01C4BE2D] 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 03:11:46 -0000 Lloyd Hayes wrote: > Sorry, I didn't finish the reply before sending the previous message. > > Yes, I was logged in as root. > I was looking and could not find a configuration file, so I started > reading the docs. They refer to setting the X- software during the > installation, but that option was not presented to me. I can install > v5.2.1 and it will be right there. But on v5.3, it isn't there. > > The docs on the CD also referred to using : Xorg -configure > You've read the error that I got. > > So, I headed for the Xorg website and downloaded some of their PDF > help files. > > 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 > > Xorg only has a 1280x1024 mode. My old laptop supports an 800x600x18 > screen. (As opposed to the 800x600x16 that I posted before.) Xorg > supports 8 and 24 bit color. > > > Lloyd Hayes OK, so what you meant to say is something like "X.Org only supports 8 and 24-bit modes at 1280x1024 for the SGI newport cards." Now, is that really the card you have? I'm rather dense, but I thought you said you have a Gateway laptop, not an SGI workstation with a "newport" video card in it ... KDK