From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 15:46:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from megamail.megared.net.mx (www.megacable.com.mx [207.249.163.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A786156B6 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 15:46:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from [207.249.163.249] by megamail.megared.net.mx (NTMail 3.03.0017/4c.ab3r) with ESMTP id ha243107 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 17:43:28 -0500 Message-ID: <000701bea700$18257860$f9a3f9cf@megared.net.mx> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Alejandro_Ram=EDrez?= To: , "Johnny F. Morris" References: <199905252239.RAA22521@venus.hiline.net> Subject: RE: XF86 - Gray screen Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:44:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, You should try cntrl_alt_+ and cntrl_alt_-, (plus and minus signs) these will change your resolution. Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: Johnny F. Morris To: Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 7:39 PM Subject: XF86 - Gray screen > I've recently installed XFree86 and thought I had everything set correctly > but apparently not. > When I launch X the screen turns gray, the mouse begins working but nothing > ever comes > up on the monitor. > > I think I have my monitor settings correct. > HorizSync 30 - 66 > VertRefresh 50 - 120 > and several different modelines are available. > > Is there an error log for X I can check? > > BTW...when I ran the xf86config program it went fine and at the end popped > up a window saying > "Congratulations...your server is running" but after I exit from that and > then try to actually start > the X program it just goes into that gray limbo mode and I end up > cntrl+alt+bkspce after waiting > several minutes. > > Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated. > Johnny > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message