From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 22 7:10:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f86.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DF4D37B700 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 07:10:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zerohero2@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 24333 invoked by uid 0); 22 May 2000 14:10:05 -0000 Message-ID: <20000522141005.24332.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 212.254.22.122 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 22 May 2000 07:10:05 PDT X-Originating-IP: [212.254.22.122] From: "William Roberts" To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Graphical Problems with X Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 07:10:05 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 3.3 on the slave HD in my gaming box (running windows 98, the original not "special edition") and I'm having trouble getting X to run. I installed X using x86config from sysinstall and had to configure my video card, a Guillemot 3D Prophet SDR (nVidia Geforce chip), manually as best I could. I selected the XF86_SVGA server, ignored the chipset, and specified that I had 32768 kb of RAM. I configured my monitor correctly based on the manual, so this shouldn't be the problem. When I boot into X, I get nothing but garbled blocks of color and the odd greyish scrambled line, and ctrl+alt+backspace doesn't work. ctrl+alt+del works after I've been at the screen for about 30 seconds. I'm thinking this is a result of misconfiguring my video card... what should I do? Here is a little info about my system (all that should be necessary I hope): ADI Microscan 6P monitor - I don't think this is a problem MSI 6167 Motherboard, BIOS v1.3 AMD Athlon 600 mhz CPU overclocked to 700 mhz (with a very nice peltier cool system -- never presented any problems) 256 MB PC133 SDRAM Guillemot 3D Prophet SDR Video Card I've checked all the FAQ's, a couple books (The Complete FreeBSD and UNIX Power Tools), and posted to several forums with no luck. I've also tried running XF86Setup without any luck - I got the same problem except when I booted into windows my resolution had been decreased to 640x480 and my refresh rate seemed pretty low. Anyways, I'd appreciate it if you guys could help me out in any way. I'm still really new to UNIX, although I've done plenty of reading and used Linux a bit -- I just figured out vi last night, although I'd used emacs before and intent to use it with FreeBSD -- so a point to some good newsgroups and other resources would be nice too. Thanks, Scott Brackett zerohero@dreadnaught.net ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message