Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:57:21 -0500 From: Michael Rothenberg <rothenberg@automationonline.com> To: "'8 BSD Qs'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: XSetup trouble Message-ID: <01BF2529.6BC93AE0.rothenberg@automationonline.com>
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I did a quick read of the chapter in Greg's book on X setup and proceeded to get my hardware info: card chip set, memory, monitor info, etc. I was unable to get info on my monitor as it was a hand me down and came with no docs. Though I was running windows 800x600 with 24 bpp just dandy. Windows no longer exists. HW is cirrus 5434 set integrated in the Compaq motherboard. Donor PC is a Compaq Presario 710 75 MHz Pentium with 40 meg ram. I read the readme on cirrus chips and made appropriate notes. I read the QuickStart.doc and FreeBSD readme as well. I then ran XF86Setup and all was going well till I hit 'Done'. It went and crunched some disk then came up with a message box that said something to the effect of: Could not start the X server. No other info was given. Then the screen went black. A second later it came up with an eye searing dot pattern with the mouse cursor as a big 'X'. The mouse is a PS/2 mouse and works fine (i.e. it moves and clicks). I thought I was done, as in hosed, and without a command prompt. I tried a bunch of keys and key combos (including the 3 finger salute) to no avail. I also tried ctl + alt + '+' which is supposed to switch video modes in X? I didn't want to turn the machine off as that is a bad thing to do. So I went to brush my teeth and think a little(12:30 am ya know). In the middle of brushing my teeth the disk starts to crunch like mad. So I figure things might return to some resemblance of normalness. Crunch crunch crunch.. on and on and on for about 10 minutes.... Then it stops and I get a larger version of the dotted screen and mouse cursor. No error messages shown. So I left it in that state. Dotted screen showing and mouse running. I turned off the monitor just in case. This morning I check to see if things had change.. hahaha not a bit different. What now? If I just turn it off without the proper shutdown how do I recover? I don't have the freq info for the monitor, nor is it listed on the shell. I'm working on getting it from the mfgr. Perhaps this was the problem. Still, I chose a default range that was good for the card and I know that the card and monitor can work together from the previous windows install. Ideas? -Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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