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Date:      Wed, 26 May 1999 10:31:22 +0300
From:      Charlie Root <root@www.koral.bg>
To:        "Johnny F. Morris" <johnny@tds.color-laser.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XF86 - Gray screen 
Message-ID:  <199905260731.KAA00395@www.koral.bg>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 May 1999 17:55:10 PDT." <199905252255.RAA23456@venus.hiline.net> 

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Try to change VertRefresh from 50 - 120 to 50 - 70.


> I've already tried that...nothing happens.
> 
> Johnny
> 
> At 05:44 PM 5/25/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >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 <johnny@tds.color-laser.com>
> >To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> >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
> >>
> >>
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