Hi Chip,
I had a very similar problem on a rather simplistic mother board that had a buil-in video card; I was trying to use a card in a pci slot and the problem was in the configuration. I suspect that what you have to do is just try diffrent configurations for the Screen section:
For instance, try a different depth, like 8 with "1024x768" and "800x600" . My card is supposed to go to 1600x1200 at 24bits but just does not do it - I think it has to do with the memory you have for the video. Oddly, mine started working when I configured Depth 8 and Depth 16 to Modes "1280x1024" & "1024x768"
HTH,
PJ
I put this on chat becuase it's a bit off topic, and it has yet to be answered on the xfree lists. I just installed fbsd 4.7 on a new box, at the prompt to configure the x server said no, and finished the install. I then ran XFree86 -configure and copied the XFree86Config to /etc/X11/. When I start X it starts okay except it will only run in 4 bit mode. Even when I try to force it to 16 bit at the startx prompt, it will default to 4. I tried to comment out the 4bit subsection the XFree will only complain that it's not there and fail to load. I know the video card and monitor will do 16 bit and 1024x768, it was on the previous install, and the box dual-boots win2000, which is using that config. I noticed there are no lines for modes in the screens subsections, so I added one to the 16bit subsection, it only breaks X again. I've included the XFree86Config at the bottom of this message. Hopefully someone will be able to help me here. :) Regards, Chip W------ XFree86Config ------ Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "pex5" Load "record" Load "xie" Load "xtrap" Load "speedo" Load "type1" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] #Option "VGAClocks" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "vga" VendorName "SiS" BoardName "630" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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