From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 8:52:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB80150E1 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 08:52:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id VAA13405; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:49:23 +0600 (ESS) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id VAA00699; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:46:21 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by localhost.cgu.chel.su (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA00566; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:35:44 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:35:40 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@localhost.cgu.chel.su To: Wayne Sprouse Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: X-Windows In-Reply-To: <01BF136B.5DEB66C0.wasprouse@earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Wayne Sprouse wrote: > To Whom It May Concern: > > When I enter into any of the X Windows the display is very bad. I have X Window, not X Windows (unless you have many of them installed :-) > tried multiple this out of The Complete FreeBSD book but the display is > still bad. The problems are as follows: > 1) Not all of the words or writings in a windows is displayed this usually happens when you're trying to input cyrillic in the XTerm, when LANG is not set. > 2) The screen does not refresh ?! > 3) It keeps defaulting to 8 bpp at 640x480 even though when I start the X > windows I type in "startx -bpp 24 -bestRefresh send us output of "startx > startx.out 2>&1" > 4) My video card keeps defaulting to 1 MB of memory even though I have > specified that it has 8 MB. what is your video card and what is your X-server (/usr/X11R6/bin/X is just a symlink to _your_ server) ? Is /usr/X11R6/bin/X a symlink to SVGA X-server ? I definetly seen some Diamond card with S3 chip. If so, try S3 X-server. If your card if an AGP one, you need to choose one of the PC98 X-servers. > > I have gone through the X86Config and specified my Monitors Horizontal and > Vertical refresh rates (30-70 and 50-160) and have selected my video card > and entered all the data for it (Diamond SpeedStar A50 8MB with the SiS63xx > RamDac.) Could you please help me with these problems please. I would like > that thank you in advance for all your help. > > Sincerely, > Wayne Sprouse > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBOAIDzuRxlWKN2EXhAQGgggL+OMNJ3F1Ge7j9OAbcsjozbt4Io1nmDY/y 2Rbdnqg0+r4mmxRvyxmAmRVrV1osRG2kywfXkzL+OkbRI1ygnKN1r8iq17QxlaEe k4llau8hR4ahxmfaFuSC4ZrjtPaCrpfw =EI7W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message