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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 06:22:58 +0000 (GMT)
From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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Subject: Re: need help with Xwindows
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Hi,

1) these are typical newbie experiences
2) there is a graphical configuration-tool for X:
   # XF86Config
   try it.
3) start with a very simple configuration (SVGA or even
   VGA16), it will not be brillant, but one can see
   at least something.
4) For fine-tuning search www.google.com


Regards

Uli.


On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Brock Kreiser wrote:

> Hey all,
>
>     Ok let first state that i am a total newbie to
> fbsd!!! and also im lovin it except for X.... I no i
> gotta be doing something wrong someware but cant figure
> it out.... I'm running 4.4R and vs.3.3.6 of X (Gnome
> with Enlightment}i got fbsd runnin on a amd 700 with
> 128megs of ram my vid card is a Nivida riva TNT2 with
> 32megs of ram.. My monitor is a gateway ev 500
> horizontal sync range is 31-69 kHz vetical is 50-100....
> i can get x to start but the display is just nasty its
> either 1 all grey and no pics or the display pixels are
> so huge and unclear you cant see anything at all... for
> the vid card selection i tried the nvidia riva
> tnt2(generic) also tried the Riva tnt 2 but either way
> cant get it to work... I did have it working the first
> time i ran fbsd but then i messed something up severly
> and i ended up formating and starting all over again
> (what can i say Damn Newbies) and yes i have read over
> the handbook and even the complete fbsd book... but no
> matter what i cant get it to work.. 1 more thing the one
> time i did get X to work... when runnin xf86config my
> vid card was # 362 which now is 466 how that happen i
> will never no but thats one of those lovely things about
> computers i guess..
>
> someone please help me!!!!!!!!!
>
> if you need more info just let me no!!!!! like i said
> before im just a newbie trying to escape from microsoft
> :)
>

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