From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 24 3:59:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mta04.onebox.com (mta04.onebox.com [64.68.77.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBD737B403 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 03:59:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onebox.com ([10.1.111.5]) by mta04.onebox.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with SMTP id <20011024105936.YYIB19615.mta04.onebox.com@onebox.com>; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 03:59:36 -0700 Received: from [64.193.153.33] by onebox.com with HTTP; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 03:59:36 -0700 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 06:59:36 -0400 Subject: Re: XFree86 -configure/Error From: "Christopher T. Jewett" To: jesper@partitur.se Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20011024105936.YYIB19615.mta04.onebox.com@onebox.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It's the refresh rate that will fry the monitor. Try using the generic SVGA video card drivers and you should be good to go. Every modern video card should support them just fine, and give you're running a 64MB Hercules, you should be more than fine. :-) Chris ---- Jesper =?iso-8859-1?Q?Blomstr=F6m?= wrote: > Hi again, > > Is it dangerous, that is can I burn my monitor, if I try > to use a different > video-card-driver than I should? Or is it just when I > altering the wrong refresh rate that could > burn it? > > / Jeppe > > > Jesper Blomström wrote: > > > > Hi there! > > > > I have recently installed FreeBSD but I didn´t install X from start, > that´s because > > I wanted to install v.4 and not the older version which was shipped > with the CD (FreeBSD 4.3). > > > > Anyway, I tried to do the "XFree86 -configure"-command and this is > > what I get: > > > > [SNIP] > > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 > > S3VProbe begin > > (II) Loading sub module "cirrus_laguna" > > (II) LoadModule: "cirrus_laguna" > > (II) Loading > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/cirrus_laguna.o > > (II) Module cirrus_laguna: vendor="The XFree86 Project" > > compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 > > ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 > > (II) Loading sub module "cirrus_alpine" > > (II) LoadModule: "cirrus_alpine" > > (II) Loading > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/cirrus_alpine.o > > (II) Module cirrus_alpine: vendor="The XFree86 Project" > > compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 > > ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.4 > > (--) VMware Guest X Server 10.4.0 - build= > > (II) ATI: Shared non-ATI VGA in PCI/AGP slot 1:0:0 > > detected. > > CYRIX: Device Sections found: 1 > > > > Fatal server error: > > > > XFree86 has found a valid card configuration. > > Unfortunately the appropriate data has not been added to > > xf86PciInfo.h. > > Please forward 'scanpci -v' output to XFree86 support > > team. > > > > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please > > send > > the full server output, not just the last messages. > > This can be found in the log file "temp.log2". > > Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org. > > [SNIP] > > > > My Video-Card is a Hercules-card: > > 64M 3D Prophet Kyro2-chipset > > > > Shall I give up on installing X with my Video-Card or do you think > there is a sollution? > > > > Thx in advance! > > > > / Jeppe > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > -- > Jesper Blomström > ---------------------------------- > Partitur Informationsteknik AB > Wenner-Gren Center > SE-113 46 Stockholm, Sweden > > tel. +46 8 566 280 00 > ext. +46 8 566 280 08 > fax. +46 8 566 280 20 > mob. +46 70 30 249 11 > > http://www.partitur.se > ---------------------------------- > P I N G P O N G - simply more fun > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > __________________________________________________ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message