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Date:      26 Apr 2002 17:55:29 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com>
Cc:        Ben Lovett <blovett@bsdguru.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dell 8200 - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go - XF86
Message-ID:  <1019858129.40336.9.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <200204262141.RAA05261@heimdall.ttsg.com>
References:  <200204262141.RAA05261@heimdall.ttsg.com>

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On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 18:41, Tuc wrote:
> > > 	How do I find out the V/H on the screen?
> > 
> > This is the same problem I saw.  Use xf86cfg to get things like the
> > keyboard and mouse right, then set the resultion to 1600x1200 in
> > XF86Config.  Note what I say in my article that anything less than
> > 1600x1200 resulted in the effect you're seeing now.  Check out my
> > example XF86Config in the article if you need more guidance.
> >
> 	Yours makes my X lock up, not even CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE works.
> > 
> > On the bright side, 1600x1200 looks awesome on my 8100.
> >
> 	I've got it to the point where there is about a thumb width (I'm a
> big guy) of black border.
> 
> 	I'll deal with this if its the best I can get!
> 
> 	So, how do I get a better window manager... TWM, YUCK!

Being a FreeBSD GNOME developer, I recommend making sure your ports tree
is up-to-date, then doing:

# cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome
# make clean
# make install clean

Once that completes, add the following to ~/.xinitrc:

exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session

And run startx.

Joe

> 
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