Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:16:55 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A strategic question (continued) Message-ID: <CE8194A3-ECFE-4020-94BC-B60A1110C8E6@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <GEEBILKJFGOEBNHGLKIHGEBFCCAA.jozef.baum@telenet.be> References: <GEEBILKJFGOEBNHGLKIHGEBFCCAA.jozef.baum@telenet.be>
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On Jan 30, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Jozef Baum wrote: > Many thanks to everyone who answered my previous e-mail about this > subject > on this list or by private e-mail. > > As some of you suggested, I have installed PC-BSD (http:// > www.pcbsd.com/). I > am sure a Unix guru would not like to install FreeBSD in this way, > as it > doesn't offer many choices. But it is just wonderful for a Unix > newbie like > me. At the end of the installation, the GUI, the cable Internet > connection, > and even the sound system worked fine. Some configuration still > needs to be > done (printing and German keyboard). But now at least I have a > system I can > use right away to do some usefull work with, and to further explore. > > I will try to configure the printing myself before perhaps > eventually asking > some specific questions about it here. > > I found an interesting explanation about the configuration of the > German > keyboard, so if some other German speaking newbie asks about it: > > http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~eserte/FreeBSD/doc/umlaute/umlaute.html > > Giorgos Keramidas asked me: > >> Can you explain *how* you configured your X11 desktop? > > Like explained in the handbook. First I created an xorg.conf.new > configuration skeleton file with > > # Xorg -configure > > Then I tested this configuration with > > # Xorg -config xorg.conf.new > > The result was a "Mode not supported" message on the display screen > until I > found out the HorizSync and VertRefresh values to write in the Section > "Monitor" which were supported, and which were much narrower than the > hardware manufacturers specifications. > > The display adapter is an nVidia GeForce4 MX with integrated GPU > (which uses > 64 MB of the system's 512 MB physical working memory). The LCD > monitor is a > Proview 780. You may have actually been limited by your video card in this respect. Given that it is a GeForce4, the options for resolution and scanlines and stuff may have been lower. I know that when I went from a GF4 to a GF6 my system's available resolution increased quite a bit. Too bad though that my monitor doesn't though... :(. Take care and hopefully this time around things will be better for you. -Garrett
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