Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:38:41 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, David Syphers <dsyphers@igpp.llnl.gov> Subject: Re: XFree86 Message-ID: <7718522FF10.AAA2052@smtp03.wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199808251638.QAA00640@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:52:26 MST." <199808252152.OAA13477@beowulf.llnl.gov>
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At 06:38 PM 8/25/98 , Mike Smith wrote:
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>> I ran xf86config and the basic vanilla
>> video setup (640x480 16 color using X332VG16) because my NeoMagic 128
>> isn't directly supported. This didn't work. I then tried using
>> XF86Setup through /stand/sysinstall, and while this seemed more
>> promising (hey, it could display the very X-like thing it uses for
>> setup), it got me no further. Every time I try to run X using
>> "startx," I get the same error -
Hmmm, NeoMagic eh? Have ye tried searching AltaVista for +neomagic +freebsd
? That got me a few sites with suggestions and a neomagic driver to include
within the X distribution... And I haven't bothered lately, but I got it up
at 640 x 480 stable and am increasing to 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 as soon
as I find the differences between their X and mine in the config file.
>> "{blah blah blah}
>> (--) VGA16: There is no mode definition named "640x480"
>>
>> Fatal server error:
>> No valid modes found..."
>
>Did you save the configuration file when you finished XF86Setup?
>Unless you do this explicitly, you won't have a configuration.
Not nessecarily, I tweaked the config files according to the sites which
people suggested worked and got the same error...
>> *briefly stands on soapbox*
>> I am new to FreeBSD. By this I do _not_ mean "I've only been a Sun
>> sysadmin for 10 years" new to FreeBSD. I mean that I've come directly
>> from the world of Microsoft. I've been playing around with FreeBSD off
>> and on for over a year now, and obviously haven't accomplished much. I
>> really like FreeBSD and the atmosphere of it's users, but I'd just like
>> to cast one more vote for the idea that FreeBSD doesn't have adaquate
>> support for those of us with absolutely no experience with this stuff -
>> no experience with Sun, with SYSV, with Linux, or with DOS.
>
>That's fair enough; however we don't have a multi-billion dollar
>organisation which can control the hardware market and pay people to do
>the corner smoothing.
Please, I come from a one year experience using Solaris at university but
Amiga and Windows mostly. Whenever I don't see something correctly I often
join Undernet's #FreeBSD or type either lynx
/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html or lynx /usr/share/doc/FAQ/FAQ.html
those two are little wonders...
Remember that the FreeBSD effort is one of volunteers and thus we don't
have the support power microsoft has (although I must say, the knowledge
base is always checked first, would that slightly be akin to GNATS?).
>One more point; XFree86 is a third-party product supplied by the
>XFree86 Project. If you are having problems with it, you should be
>talking to them. If we were Microsoft, we would be charging you $55
>for this advice.
Heh, yer prolly right on the $$ thing... NeoMagic is an unsupported chipset
in the current XFree86, but ye can however try the altavista search I
suggested. Don't have the time to paste the URL's.
Regards,
--
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai <asmodai(at)wxs.nl>
ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises
Network/Security Specialist
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