Thanks for the advice! -----Original Message----- From: Ted Spradley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: February 7, 2002 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Newbie]X Install
"Parrott, Tyler (Brunnet)" wrote: > > Hey All, > > I recently installed FreeBSD 4.5 on my machine (I'm not sure which > version of X comes with it but I'm sure it's fairly recent) I finally found it: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.5R/relnotes-i386.html#AEN677 "FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE includes the older 4.1.0 version of the XFree86 package." > and I just can't > get the server running. I have a PIII700, Riva TNT2 card, I set the mode at > 1024x768 with 24 bit color, the mouse works when I test it. But when the X > graphical config tries to start the X server, it fails. I don't get any > error messages because it's just the setup script that's running it. Isn't that annoying? Sysinstall does a good job usually, but when it doesn't, you're mostly helpless. I've been running 4.1.0 with a Riva TNT2 M64 chipset for some months. Works fine, mostly, but when Netscrape 4.76 gets its knickers in a twist and has to be killed the Xserver also takes a SIGSEGV and fills my root filesystem with a core dump. I installed it from the port or package (don't remember which) and it configured itself and "just worked". Try "XFree86 -configure" (as root) and see if that works. Or xf86cfg, from a root shell on a text console, rather than from sysinstall. > I've > tried editing the XF86Config file myself but all the settings look fine to > me...as they are the same settings I had when I was running X with Slackware > 8.0? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Tyler Parrott > > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
