From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 28 4:17:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omega.ailab.sztaki.hu (omega.ailab.sztaki.hu [193.225.86.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2AFA14CCB for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 04:17:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan@omega.ailab.sztaki.hu) Received: from localhost (stefan@localhost) by omega.ailab.sztaki.hu (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA00622; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:15:56 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:15:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: Stefan Peter To: "Andy V. Oleynik" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: startx In-Reply-To: <379EE4E2.6B94F9B8@prime.net.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 1st of all: U didnt correctly define modes for ur X server. > Depending on ur monitor and videocard U may define > different videomodes with different color depth. > My advice is to run X86Setup utility which will write > appropriate config file for U. But U *must* know > which video hardware U have and its features. > Of course ur videocard must be supported by XFree. > (man X86_Accel.1 X86_SVGA.1) That's fine, but in this case how it was possible that the install-process was able to switch into video mode? And also started the X-server without any problems. How can I gain information about my videocard without having paper-based hardware description? > second traverse ur /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* dirs > and run there mkfontdir utility to create fonts.dir files. I'm gonna try this. Thanks, Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message