From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 13:25:27 2005 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 6C46C16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:25:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B0B43D1F for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:25:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([82.161.136.218]:9942 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CqWsl-000N0o-Up for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:25:23 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E841A9A7 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:25:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.111] (ip54513cd0.direct-adsl.nl [84.81.60.208]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11AD43701F for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:25:19 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41EBBCB3.6050807@scii.nl> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:25:07 +0100 From: albi User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041228) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Configuring X 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: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:25:27 -0000 Walker, Michael wrote: > I have used XFree86 on this laptop before, however that was using FreeBSD > 5.2.1 and it worked fine. hmm, how did you configure it back then ? :) > And it also works fine on my desktop machine (that > to has a Intel i810 controller) > Does anyone have any ideas where in my setup I am going wrong, or have a > working XF86Config file for their Intel video controller. did you try XFree -configure ? an alternative is to use e.g. a knoppix-cdrom (till 3.6 it uses XFree86, not sure about 3.7) and if that's giving you a good resolution, then scp the /etc/X11/XF86* to another machine, and edit the mouse-section to make it work for your FreeBSD-machine, that is : replace the /dev/mouse or /dev/psaux etc. into /dev/sysmouse and change the mouse-protocol