From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 18:59:25 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 3055316A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:59:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2A643D31 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:59:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:59:53 -0600 Message-ID: <405E5688.5000008@daleco.biz> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:59:20 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "IT2 Wishon, Corey" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Mar 2004 02:59:54.0140 (UTC) FILETIME=[C036CDC0:01C40FB9] cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Intel chipset to work 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: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 02:59:25 -0000 IT2 Wishon, Corey wrote: >Sir or Ma'am > > > I guess I'm a "sir", but we're all just FreeBSD users around here. Greetings to you wherever the "Vella Gulf" is ATM, and thanks to all of you .... >Sorry to bother you. I am trying to get a intel chipset to work on my >version of freebds. > > No trouble.... >I am currently unable to run free86 GUI interface. The drivers will not >install referring to a 1240: syntax error: Bad fd number >and when I try to run startx I get fatal server error: "no screens found". >Is there any suggestion to help my situation. Any assistance >will be greatly appreciated. > >IT2 Corey Wishon > > >Systems Administrator >USS Vella Gulf (CG-72) >USN/AD > > Can't say as I can help with the "Bad fd number". It's obviously an error in line 1240 of some file or other ... now what file, I don't know, and whether the message is really the indicator of the problem I can't say. You didn't mention what chipset ... I assume the Intel i810? There's a subsection of the Handbook (5.4.3.1) dealing with that specific chipset, I suppose due to the fact is was very popular for a while....if that's your chipset, I'd definitely look it up. The handbook is available at www.freebsd.org/handbook, or via ftp .... "No screens found" means that the X server hasn't found any viable entries in the "Screen" section of the XFree86Config file (which is probably /etc/X11/XF86Config) ... I've attached mine; the "Screen" section is about 2/3 of the way down.... HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.