From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 15 8:44:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.jump.net (mail11.jump.net [207.8.124.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C14237B6C7 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 08:44:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kweiss@jump.net) Received: from kamui.animeniac.com (ns.animeniac.com [216.30.96.14]) by mail11.jump.net (8.9.0/) with SMTP id KAA15369; Mon, 15 May 2000 10:44:08 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Graphical Problems with X From: Kevin Reply-To: Kevin In-Reply-To: <000701bfbe84$d0f8f3c0$1616fed4@zerohero> Message-ID: <00036791e8639728_mailit@smtp.jump.net> References: <000701bfbe84$d0f8f3c0$1616fed4@zerohero> Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 10:48:16 +0000 X-Mailer: BeatWare Mail-It 2.0.4 X-BeOS-Platform: Intel or clone X-Priority: 3 (Normal) To: zerohero2@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG An excellent guide for getting X Window up and running is: http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/Xwindows.phtml Hope that helps! Kevin Weiss kweiss@jump.net >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 > > >> > > > > > > > >

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.& >nbsp; >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

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