From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 2 8:56:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.shore.net (polaris.shore.net [207.244.124.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A45F114ED3 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 08:56:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rothenberg@automationonline.com) Received: from shore.shore.net [192.233.85.136] by polaris.shore.net with esmtp (Exim) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id 11ihEJ-00022v-00; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:56:19 -0500 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by shore.shore.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id LAA14277 for shore!freebsd.org!freebsd-questions; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:56:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from baffle. automationonline.com by slider.automationonline.com via SMTP (911016.SGI/911001.SGI) for shore!freebsd.org!freebsd-questions id AA21764; Tue, 2 Nov 99 12:01:29 -0500 Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:57:22 -0500 Message-Id: <01BF2529.6BC93AE0.rothenberg@automationonline.com> From: Michael Rothenberg Reply-To: "rothenberg@automationonline.com" To: "'8 BSD Qs'" Subject: XSetup trouble Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:57:21 -0500 Organization: Intelligent Automation X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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