From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 22 21:47:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.san.rr.com (smtp1.san.rr.com [24.25.195.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED3DF37B400 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:47:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 24-161-160-243.san.rr.com (24-161-160-243.san.rr.com [24.161.160.243]) by smtp1.san.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g5N4lcg01296; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:47:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:47:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: root@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com To: FreeBSD Questions LIST Cc: XFree86 FreeBSD LIST , XFree86 LIST Subject: I x-have x-amazing x-news! Message-ID: <20020622214152.U561-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Remembering reading something about just settling for UNaccelerated XFree86 use, I recently edited the ~/XF86Config.new file created by `XFree86 -configure` and changed the line saying "ati" (driver) to "svga" (having long-given-up on the r128 driver and replacement r128 driver I downloaded from sourceforge.net) That produced an error in my /var/log/XFree86.0.log file about a "Fatal error ... no screens found" or something. Well the x-AMAZING NEWS is that I remembered to check the contents of the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ directory and, noticing no svga driver, in seeing the vga driver ... [catches his excited breath] changed the line in my XF86Config.new file from svga to vga and ran X! Well it worked, but a hugely-dotted background and a huge X (movable) cursor is all I get. What's the next step, that is, to get a normal 1024x768 resolution and functional desktop manager? :) Yeay! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message