From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 25 12:33:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F58516A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:33:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C9643D3F for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:33:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i6PCXIx3014938 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:33:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i6PCXI3V014937; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:33:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:33:18 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." Message-ID: <20040725123318.GB14398@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , DK , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040725020849.44439.qmail@web41006.mail.yahoo.com> <4103327E.1080606@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4103327E.1080606@daleco.biz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.3 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:33:18 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: DK cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD v4.10 - Newbie Needs Help - KDE Really Slow !! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:33:33 -0000 --b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:09:34PM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wro= te: > DK wrote: > >If it helps, the only thing I can think of is whether the system loaded= =20 > >the correct Graphics Card > >?? > >- BUT I don't know how to check this ?? - Cannot find a Display Properti= es=20 > >like windows that lists > >the Graphics Card ?? > KDE, and any other wm/environment, runs on top of XFree86. XFree86 reads > from configuration files ... mine is /etc/X11/XF868Config. Like I said= =20 > above, you > need to read up a bit before you get it going. The XF86Config file is actually not going to be amazingly helpful. Nowadays X Windows essentially configures itself completely automatically -- you can often run it successfully *without* any XF86Config file -- and the XF86Config just serves to override various default choices. When X autoconfigures it will choose the graphics mode that gives the largest possible screen resolution it knows your monitor and card will support (but not necessarily the greatest colour depth). However, if your monitor doesn't provide the X server with the horizontal and vertical frequency information it needs, it will choose a conservative low resolution setup that any monitor should be able to cope with. To see exactly what settings are being used run: % xdpyinfo | less Scroll down until you find the section marked 'screen #0' where it tells you the display size and colour depth. Most of the rest of the information that command prints out is unlikely to be interesting to you. To see exactly what X Windows recognises your graphincs hardware as, you need to look into the log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log Again, that's much more information than what you need, but if you scan through the file you should see an entry like: (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro] rev 164, M= em @ 0xee000000/24, 0xf0000000/27, BIOS @ 0xefff0000/16 although the details will be different from system to system. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBA6iNiD657aJF7eIRAnjOAJ484CeEWzgRSXBzQwfnVl3dCWgXSQCgk/nc qJmPMQ6GCYdtf0nGNySSMk8= =7J4c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW--