From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 21:02:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4673916A4B3 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6771E43FBD for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:02:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from slave-mike@rv1.dynip.com) Received: from duron.rv1.dynip.com (c-66-177-119-177.se.client2.attbi.com[66.177.119.177]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2003102004015601100gkk4he>; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 04:01:57 +0000 Received: from rv1.dynip.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duron.rv1.dynip.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9K41vHh010588; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 00:01:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from slave-mike@rv1.dynip.com) Message-ID: <3F935E35.8020806@rv1.dynip.com> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 00:01:57 -0400 From: slave-mike User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "C. W. Talbot" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: screen font size X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 04:02:02 -0000 YOu X-Windowing installation is *not* right. Update your XFree86 to the latest available (via packages), not you might need to download and upgrade your FreeBSD 4.5 to 4.8-RELEASE or 4.9-PRERELEASE, this should give much up to date video card drivers, then you run XFree86 -configure and follow instructions (hopefully in your book) from there. C. W. Talbot wrote: > > > Greetings > I recently installed FreeBSD 4.5 with desk top KDE using a CD that came > with the book, FreeBSD Unleashed, by Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann. > Everything seemed to go fine until I executed startx. The desktop > environment on my screen "seems" to be at least four times as big as it > should be, displaying only the top left portion of the desktop. > > The strange part of this problem is that during the install process, > program option screens are the correct size and font. > > Any advice to get me going will be appreciated. > > C. W. Talbot > cwtalbot@hotmail.com > > _________________________________________________________________ > Frustrated with dial-up? Get high-speed for as low as $29.95/month > (depending on the local service providers in your area). > https://broadband.msn.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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"