From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 17:57:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1584637B405 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a012.otenet.gr [212.205.215.12]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3M0v45q001126; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 03:57:19 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3M0um76017326; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 03:56:48 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3M0ucjt017321; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 03:56:38 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 03:56:38 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Andrei Zaitsau Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fonts and X Message-ID: <20020422005637.GB17192@hades.hell.gr> References: <000501c1e98d$15e84a50$6601a8c0@xmpu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000501c1e98d$15e84a50$6601a8c0@xmpu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-04-21 18:34, Andrei Zaitsau wrote: > Hello, > > I have just installed FreeBSD 4.5. When I install X windows manager, fonts > do not show up properly, instead of letters I see blank spaces, or something > similar to 'pipes'. This happens to any X I install. However letters display > just fine on the console. > > Does anyone know what could be the problem? This tends to happen when you push the video adapter to frequencies it can't handle nicely. Try lowering the resolution to see if it fixes things. I have found the following page invaluable when trying to configure my XFree86 modelines in /etc/X11/XF86Config: http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines Try it out, and make your own custom modelines for X11, that do not push the adapter in frequencies it can't handle. Lowering the maximum refresh rates in that web page, will give you the Right(TM) modelines to put in XF86Config :) Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message