From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 7 8:21:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net [24.69.46.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F26237B423 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 08:21:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (localhost.gv.shawcable.net [127.0.0.1]) by h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f47FOGV04184; Mon, 7 May 2001 08:24:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Michael O'Henly" Reply-To: michael@tenzo.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation question (FreeBSD 4.2) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 08:24:16 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <94.13e4a310.28280e46@aol.com> <20010507094828.E11494@armadillo.itg.ti.com> In-Reply-To: <20010507094828.E11494@armadillo.itg.ti.com> Cc: UDDANE@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01050708241608.03068@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Another possibility is that you need to install the /usr/ports/x11/wrapper port so that you can "startx" from the command line. (Although, the version 4.0.2 advice sounds more likely. I don't think that not installing wrapper should cause your system to freeze.) If you haven't already done this, Marianne, you can (as root) change to /usr/ports/x11/wrapper and do a "make install clean". Then try "startx" again. Even if the problem turns out to be the version of X you're running, you should still do this if you intend to run X using startx rather than xdm. M. On Monday 07 May 2001 07:48, David Huff wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:42:14AM -0400, UDDANE@aol.com wrote: > > > > The monitor is a Samsung SynchMaster 753DF 17inch screen running > > 1280x1024 video card is ATI Radeon AGP with 64MB memory > > Marianne, > > I bet the problem is that the version of X which FreeBSD installs (XFree86) > is 3.3.x. Your ATI Radeon requires version 4.0.2 or higher. I have a > question posted on freebsd-questions myself today RE: how to setup XFree86 > 4.0.x with a Radeon (I've got a 32 Mb DDR Radeon in a system at home :) -- Michael O'Henly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message