From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 05:45:43 2003 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 0C43537B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 05:45:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cordis.lu (mail.cordis.lu [212.190.217.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580CD43F85 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 05:45:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.carter@cordis.lu) Received: from mailsvr.intrasoft.lu (mail.intrasoft.lu [212.190.217.251]) by mail.cordis.lu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h46Cvn9g027418; Tue, 6 May 2003 14:57:49 +0200 Received: by mail.intrasoft.lu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Tue, 6 May 2003 14:41:49 +0200 Received: from 212.190.217.170 ([212.190.217.170]) by mailsvr.intrasoft.lu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2656.59) id JS23C2FL; Tue, 6 May 2003 14:41:47 +0200 From: CARTER Anthony To: Gary and El Byrnes , CARTER Anthony , Matthew Seaman Organization: Intrasoft Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 14:46:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030506100549.GC95479@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <200305061402.17653.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> <013001c313cc$6243c310$0137a8c0@rooter> In-Reply-To: <013001c313cc$6243c310$0137a8c0@rooter> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305061446.21164.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-131.9 required=4.2 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_KMAIL,USER_IN_WHITELIST version=2.53 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Window problem 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: Tue, 06 May 2003 12:45:44 -0000 Ah, I've had that before....the getty stuff... ok, post your entry from /etc/ttys for /dev/ttyv8 should be something like: ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure verify that you don't have 2 entries...Now, while you do that I'll rack my brain to remember what I did to stop that... Anthony On Tuesday 06 May 2003 14:38, Gary and El Byrnes wrote: > I actually don't know. I tried searching www.fcc.gov > for it but no data. I tried reducing to what you > suggested. The screen rapidly flashes from the command prompt to black. > When I hit ctrl+alt+del I can see a message "getty repeating too quickly > on port /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs". ? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: CARTER Anthony > To: Gary and El Byrnes ; Matthew Seaman > ; CARTER Anthony > > Cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva ; > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:02 PM > Subject: Re: X Window problem > > How much RAM is on your S3 Trio64? Are you sure you are not trying to > get a > resolution that your card has not enough RAM for? > > Try reducing colours to 16-bit and screen resolution to 800x600 and test > > that... > > Anthony > > On Tuesday 06 May 2003 13:41, Gary and El Byrnes wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am so glad I learnt so much already. I rebooted several times and > > ran > > > mount -a and it didn't give me any error messages. > > > > I tried playing around with my system and I can't get X to work. Could > > somebody please help me. I am wondering what would be the closest > > ranges > > > I should pick to get this to work. I tried a few and they didn't work. > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > Elvira > > > > Video card: S3 Trio64 > > Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 171s - > > Horizontal Rate > > Vertical Rate > > Maximum Pixel Rate 30 ~ 81 KHz > > 56 ~ 76 Hz > > 135MHz > > 1280 x 1024 > > VGA 640 x 480 @ 85Hz > > SVGA 800 x 600 @ 85 Hz > > XGA 1024 x 768 @ 85 Hz > > SXGA 1284 x 1024 @ 76Hz > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Matthew Seaman < mailto:m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk > > > > > > To: CARTER Anthony < mailto:a.carter@cordis.lu > > > > > > Cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva < mailto:mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx > > > ; Gary and El > > > < mailto:elgaz@iprimus.com.au > Byrnes ; > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > < mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 9:19 PM > > Subject: Re: X Window problem