From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 19 20:20:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9191516A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:20:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1318143D54 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:20:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ecomeasurement@comcast.net) Received: from 204.127.205.142 (sccrwbc57.attbi.com[204.127.205.157]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with SMTP id <20050119202051011000ntrce>; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:20:51 +0000 Received: from [24.20.76.33] by 204.127.205.142; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:20:51 +0000 From: ecomeasurement@comcast.net To: freebsd-X11@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:20:51 +0000 Message-Id: <011920052020.1167.41EEC1210006C0C60000048F22058860149B020A030A9D9A9C0E0A03010C0A@comcast.net> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Dec 17 2004) X-Authenticated-Sender: ZWNvbWVhc3VyZW1lbnRAY29tY2FzdC5uZXQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: X11 device detection issue, Part II X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:20:57 -0000 Hi folks, I've continued to work on the "no screen", "no devices detected" issue. After looking at some additional archived user comments, I tried the following: 1. Changing from "nv" to generic vga in the card selection list did not help; changing to generic vesa did at least get me a scrambled screen. 2. Next, I played around with the color depth and monitor frequencies. The first number refers to the menu selection number for the horizontal frequency, and the second for the vertical refresh rate frequency. Going to 16 color with 8,3 frequency selection yielded a partial AfterStep screen (the manager I chose at configuration time), but it was squashed into the top third of the physical screen, with tiny lettering. 3. So I lowered the vertical refresh rate, with frequency selection 8,2. That made things worse --just a scrambled screen again. 4. So I went back to 3 for the vertical, and changed the horizontal: 4,3. Nothing. 5. 8,4 did not work either. 6. 6,4: nil. I assume you get the picture. I started with the best (#2, above), and then tried to tune things to get a satisfactory X-rendering of the desktop. It didn't work. Any thoughts would be appreciated. I've considered trying to configure the chipset, but I don't know if that's the problem. Thanks.