On 2006-01-31 03:41, Jozef Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Many thanks to everyone who answered my previous e-mail about this subject
on this list or by private e-mail.
As some of you suggested, I have installed PC-BSD (http://www.pcbsd.com/). I
am sure a Unix guru would not like to install FreeBSD in this way, as it
doesn't offer many choices. But it is just wonderful for a Unix newbie like
me. At the end of the installation, the GUI, the cable Internet connection,
and even the sound system worked fine. Some configuration still needs to be
done (printing and German keyboard). But now at least I have a system I can
use right away to do some usefull work with, and to further explore.
I will try to configure the printing myself before perhaps eventually asking
some specific questions about it here.
I found an interesting explanation about the configuration of the German
keyboard, so if some other German speaking newbie asks about it:
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~eserte/FreeBSD/doc/umlaute/umlaute.html
Giorgos Keramidas asked me:
Can you explain *how* you configured your X11 desktop?
Like explained in the handbook. First I created an xorg.conf.new
configuration skeleton file with
# Xorg -configure
Then I tested this configuration with
# Xorg -config xorg.conf.new
The result was a Mode not supported message on the display screen
until I found out the HorizSync and VertRefresh values to write in the
Section Monitor which were supported, and which were much narrower
than the hardware manufacturers specifications.
That's probably a bug in the configuration file generated by Xorg and,
quite possibly, a bug in the Handbook section. Most modern monitors and
video adapters work without any HorizSync or VertRefresh line in
`xorg.conf'. This forces the X11 servers to query the hardware for the
supported refresh ranges, and I've found that it tends to be much easier
to get things right this way :)
The display adapter is an nVidia GeForce4 MX with integrated GPU (which uses
64 MB of the system's 512 MB physical working memory). The LCD monitor is a
Proview 780.
I'm using an ATI on the laptop used to type this message. The file
/var/log/Xorg.0.log lists it as:
ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
The `xorg.conf' file has commented out entries for HorizSync and
VertRefresh, but this doesn't keep things from working.
Section Monitor
Identifier Monitor0
# Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC:
#HorizSync31.5 - 79.0
#VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0
EndSection
You may find it easier to comment out these lines from xorg.conf, start
X11 and then tune the best refresh ranges later, after you get things
working fine :)
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