From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 29 05:16:38 2004 Return-Path: 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 CA96F16A4CE for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:16:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from grog.secure-computing.net (grog.secure-computing.net [63.228.14.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1350543D2D for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:16:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ecrist@secure-computing.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (nat-server.secure-computing.net [63.228.14.245]) (authenticated bits=0)i7T5Ep84056161; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 00:15:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ecrist@secure-computing.net) Message-ID: <41316394.6090905@secure-computing.net> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 00:03:16 -0500 From: Eric F Crist Organization: Secure Computing Networks User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: v_moore@bigfoot.com References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.74, clamav-milter version 0.74a on grog.secure-computing.net X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xf86config for Toshiba satellite pro laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ecrist@secure-computing.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:16:38 -0000 Vaughan Moore wrote: > I'm a complete newbie and I'm trying to set up X server on a Toshiba > Satellite pro 4620dvd laptop. Everytime I run through xf86cfg or > xf86cfg -textmode I get the error message "The XFree86 configuration process > seems to have failed. Would you like to try again?" Obviously, this is a > bit frustrating. > > Here are what I think are the valid parts of the XF86Config file, but I may > be missing something - please let me know. > > InputDevice > Driver = "mouse" > Option = "Protocol" "Auto" > Option = "Device" "/dev/sysmous" > InputDevice > Driver "Keyboard" > Option "Skbmode1" "pc101" (note: my laptop only has 85 keys" > Option "XkbLayout "us" > Monitor > HorizSync 31.5-31.5 > VertRefresh 50.0-70.0 > Card > Driver "s3" > VendorName "S3 Inc." > BoardName "86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV" > ChipSet "SuperSavage/IX64" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > Screen > Default Depth 8 > Display Depth 1 > Display Depth 4 > Display Depth 8 > Modes "640x480" > Display Depth 15 > Display Depth 16 > Display Depth 24 > > My main questions are: > > 1) The Toshiba documentation and Web site do not tell me what my internal > monitor's horizontal sync or vertical refresh rate is. (although it does > give me refresh rates for an external monitor - 60/75/85 @16M colors). Is > there a place I can go to find this information? > > 2) Are there other obvious reasons the configuration would fail other than > the monitor? > > 3) Are there any sites I can visit for more info? > > Thanks so much! > > Vaughan Moore > > Also, did I post this to the right list? If not, please let me know where > it should go. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > This seems to be a bug in recent releases (4.x and 5.x). Just skip it from there, and install KDE/Gnome from one of the other menus. Everything is fine. I don't remember exactly, but sysinstall is looking for the config file in /etc/X11/xf86config or something, while it's actually being installed in /usr/local/X11........ or some other thing. the way to get around this is to either ignore it (which I do), or type in the above text (/etc/X11/xf86config) as I typed it (IIRC). This is just a bug and things ARE getting installed correctly. Just move down, later in the process and install a 'window manager.' KDE, Gnome, and a couple others will more than likely be listed. HTH Eric F Crist