From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 6 10:52:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2B716A468 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:52:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew.walters@cerebrum.com.au) Received: from vps315.ourhelpdesk.net (vps315.ourhelpdesk.net [67.15.144.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6078D13C480 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:52:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew.walters@cerebrum.com.au) Received: (qmail 24330 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2007 20:45:18 +1000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Jul 2007 20:45:18 +1000 Received: from cust3638.nsw01.dataco.com.au (cust3638.nsw01.dataco.com.au [203.171.75.54]) by webmail.cerebrum.com.au (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 20:45:18 +1000 Message-ID: <20070706204518.0o7gwq56sgo8sokg@webmail.cerebrum.com.au> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 20:45:18 +1000 From: andrew.walters@cerebrum.com.au To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.3) Subject: Xorg woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:52:01 -0000 Hello I am hoping that this is the right place to request help for such a problem - I am attempting to make the transition from Windows to FreeBSD so bear with me, Also, my apologies if you receive this more =20 than once, I have never subscribed to a mailing list and suspect that =20 my first request did not come through as I was not subscribed - but if =20 it did, I am sorry. My issue is this: I cannot, for the life of me, get a working X configuratio= n. I am running an AMD-64 (Asus M2V-TVM) with an integrated VIA K8M890 graphics chip. I have installed a working (text only) version of FreeBSD 6.2 following the FreeBSD installation instructions and have downloaded and built Xorg using the same instructions. I attempted to configure Xorg for my setup but on every test could not get a usable screen. Having done a bit of research and discovering that the VIA chip was problematic, I bought a NVIDIA 85000GT because the NVIDIA driver support seemed to be much better. Unfortunately, the results were no better. I am also running Windows and have tried an installation of Ubuntu on the box with both cards without any real hassles. I have set the refresh and sync rates amd the modes for the screen (have even copied the working "Vesa" setup from Ubuntu) but I still can't get a working screen (it varies from completely black using the NVIDIA cars to a fuzzy mess using the Via). If anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be extremely appreciated. Regards Andrew