From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 19:55:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06680 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:55:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mutsgo.dyn.ml.org (root@dal16-15.ppp.iadfw.net [206.66.4.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA06575 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:54:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vagner@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org) Received: from mutsgo.dyn.ml.org (mugsy.dyn.ml.org [192.168.0.2]) by mutsgo.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA23574; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 21:53:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from vagner@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org) Message-ID: <352068DF.50FD5009@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 21:54:07 -0600 From: Laszlo Vagner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-BETA i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setup Problems References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Mike Shimony wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm having a few problems setting up FreeBSD to run on my > > system. > > > > 1. Beside looking at the hardware is there a way to > > determine the address and irq of devices? > > If the hardware is working under another OS, check it's settings. > > > 2. I have Compudyne KD-1700V Monitor and a Diamond Speed > > Star Pro Video Card. While setting up Xwindows I entered the > > ranges for Horizontal (30-82kHz) and Vertical (50-120Hz). > > When I move a window I get small white horizontal lines > > flashing on the screen. And sometimes my mouse cursor turns > > into a bunch of vertical bars (like a bar code). I didn't > > set a clock for the video card. Should I run Xprobe even > > though It says not to. I was able to get this setup to work > > under Linux, and I've tried it with the same settings but it > > still doesn't work. Any suggestions? > > It should work; Linux and FreeBSD use the same X server, XFree86. I don't > know about the noise, it may be a resource conflict or chip misdetection. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I had a similiar problem but without the mouse problem, the solution was torun less colors instead of 32 bit color try 16 bit. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message