Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 01:01:08 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Gary Kline" <kline@tao.thought.org>, "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: any ideas why these xorg hassles??? Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEKIFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050304085526.GA88144@thought.org>
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What version FreeBSD we talking here? And if it's 4.X, why on earth did you change it? Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Gary Kline > Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 12:55 AM > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: any ideas why these xorg hassles??? > > > > Guys, > > Here's the story XFree-4 vs xorg. I have 4 platforms on > a KVM so every machine uses the same tube. With XFree, > my 3 FBSD systems had a flawless 1280x1024 display. With > xorg, on my E-machines (ATI-Rage- 4M Video) the screen > quivers. On my HP Kayak (Matrox II 8M) the display is > steady but the tube is complaining "INVALID SYNC". The > CRT is a high-end Hitachi. I got the exact specs for both > the horiz and vert hertz ranges. Before, I was just > close. Now everything is dead-on. > > Another couple things. With XFree, I set the DefaultDepth' > to 8; now, on both computers it is maxed out at 16. If I > do set the default depth to 8, xdm fails. (It "tries" to' > initialize, then something clicks/resets, the screen > flashes grey for an instant; repeats infinitely.) > > Can anyone clue me in on howto get back to XFree on both > systems? I know about make.conf, but what should I > pkg_delete? > > thanks for any help, > > gary > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org > Public service Unix > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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