From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 28 02:21:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 919E816A402 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:21:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from BrendaBPowers@aol.com) Received: from imo-m25.mx.aol.com (imo-m25.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D7413C47E for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:21:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from BrendaBPowers@aol.com) Received: from BrendaBPowers@aol.com by imo-m25.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.6.) id n.c05.edb2523 (41810) for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:11:09 -0500 (EST) From: BrendaBPowers@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:11:06 EST To: questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 6.0 for Windows XP sub 10500 X-Spam-Flag: NO Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: FreeBSD 5.2.1 won't run with ATI RADEON 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: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:21:24 -0000 Hello: I am new to Unix and purchased a copy of FreeBSD 5.2.1 from Fry's to begin learning. FreeBSD is used at my work and I wish to learn the OS myself. Hoping that an integrated package would be easier to install and have all the packages I needed, I bought this version. My system is thus: - Compaq Presario with Pentium D - 512 MB ram - 200GB drive - ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 graphics card - NEC 1740CX multisync monitor After installation the 'startx' command will not start the GUI KDE. I get an error message ' no screens found'. I have tried all the combinations of horizontal-vertical sync that are within the range of my monitor but all fail. I have tried every one of the different resolutions that are within the horizontal-vertical sync range of my monitor but all fail. Here are additional problems: - The XFree86 installer has no entry for the ATI RADEON device - The XFree86 installer has no entry for the NEC 1740CX monitor Since I am completely new to Unix I do not know how to send you the log file. I am using a different system to install Unix than my Internet connected system. I am sure others have seen problems with the graphics portion of installation. This must be a common problem. I had exactly the same problem installing Suse Linux before trying to use FreeBSD. I found that with Suse, if I installed at the lowest resolution the OS would resolve the problem during the first boot and reset the resolution to the max. size. FreeBSD does not do this. Can anyone help? Brenda Powers