From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 03:15:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 25FEA16A420 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:15:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64F5143D48 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:15:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k0V3FeoD029271 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:15:41 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [128.208.7.218] (pinocchio.dyn.cs.washington.edu [128.208.7.218]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k0V3Felw028669 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:15:40 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Garrett Cooper Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:16:55 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __FRAUD_419_CONTACT 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __HAS_X_PRIORITY 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Subject: Re: A strategic question (continued) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:15:42 -0000 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