On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 12:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My Hardware: Dell Inspiron 8000 (laptop)
> 1Ghtz Pentium III Processor
> 128 MB Ram
> 15' LCD screen
> ATI Rage M4 graphics card.
> Operating system: FreeBSD 4.5-Current
> X-Server = XFree86 4.3.0
>
>
> RE: Unable to to get the X-Server started with XFree86 4.3.0 on
> FreeBSD 4.5-Current
I assume you mean 4.5-stable?
> I am sending an attachment which was generated by XFree86 -configure
> run at the command line. In the attachment you will find the log file
> that was generated by the X-Server crash Which your team can review.
It didn't crash, it exited with an error, apparently because of
misconfiguration.
>
> These ATI M4 graphics( included in popular laptop manufactures such as
> Dell) cards are rumoured to work with the the "r128" driver but it
> appears the screens can't be found or detected by XFree86 -config.
Works just fine on my Mobility M4, and has since 4.2.0.
> I am not sure why this is happening ?
>
> Everything else appears to be fine. XFre886 appears to detect the card
> but cannot find a screen that will work to display the graphics.
>
> If you could help by directing me to a source which could help solve
> the problem I would really appreciate it.
[...]
> (WW) R128(0): Monitor0: Using default hsync range of 28.00-33.00kHz
> (WW) R128(0): Monitor0: using default vrefresh range of 43.00-72.00Hz
Looks like you need to set your HorizSync and VertRefresh options in
your Monitor section. For my 1400x1050 laptop screen I have:
HorizSync 28-90
VertRefresh 40-110
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Eric Anholt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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