Hi, A good friend of mine asked me to setup FreeBSD and GNOME on his home computer for his family to use. It is an old IBM Aptiva. The usual stuff works, but of course it has to have integrated video: ATI Rage Pro Turbo chipset.
I'm running the latest Xorg in the ports tree and started with a configuration file using 'Xorg -configure'. No matter what I've tried (no accel, no dri, defaultdepth 8, 16, Modes 800x600, 640x480), all the results have been the same, even when trying to run xorgcfg... when I run startx, my monitor blanks, and either tells me it's an unsupported video mode, or the screen just goes blank. Doing ctrl+alt+backspace doesn't restore my text mode, but I am able to reboot the system using ctrl+alt+del, or I can even type 'shutdown -p now' (but nothing is displayed). Could anyone suggest any additional course of action, or is this chipset clearly unsupported? It's really hard for me to give up on this... it's not too often that I get to setup someone with FreeBSD and GNOME (has only happened to me once before this). James _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
