From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Aug 21 0:20:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from master.telia.net (master.telia.net [194.237.170.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF96837B42C for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 00:20:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (elite@localhost) by master.telia.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA91791; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:20:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from khaled@w-arts.com) X-Authentication-Warning: master.telia.net: elite owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:20:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Khaled Daham X-Sender: elite@master.telia.net To: Robert Bailey Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X on alpha 4.1-RELEASE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Robert Bailey wrote: > I've been using RedHat Linux on my alpha 164LX machine and wanted to play > with FreeBSD for the alpha. I installed 4.1-RELEASE via ftp and all seems > well except that when I switch to X Window, none of the window managers > seem to behave correctly. Specifically, dialog boxes appear, but I can't > see any of the dialogs or buttons. Xterm works, but none of the widgets > look right and the docked apps are just black squares. Anyone have an > idea what I have done wrong? Sorry if this is not an appropriate > question for this list. If it's not appropriate here, please let me know > where would be better. I figured the freebsd-questions list seemed to be > intel-centric. I have succesfully used matrox millenium I/II, G200, S3 Virge Trio3D, diamond FireGL 1000 pro with windowmanagers like windowmaker, enlightenment and fvwm2 so the only basic thing I can think of ( since Ive had 0 problem ) is what depth resolution are you using ? ( xwininfo could help ) /Khaled Daham, w.arts Mail: khaled@w-arts.com Cell: +46-70-6785492, +966-54491462 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message