On Saturday January 27, 2007 at 09:11:06 (PM) BrendaBPowers wrote:
> I am new to Unix and purchased a copy of FreeBSD 5.2.1 from Fry's to begin
> learning. FreeBSD is used at my work and I wish to learn the OS myself.
> Hoping
> that an integrated package would be easier to install and have all the
> packages
> I needed, I bought this version.
>
> My system is thus:
> - Compaq Presario with Pentium D
> - 512 MB ram
> - 200GB drive
> - ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 graphics card
> - NEC 1740CX multisync monitor
>
> After installation the 'startx' command will not start the GUI KDE. I get an
> error message ' no screens found'.
>
> I have tried all the combinations of horizontal-vertical sync that are within
> the range of my monitor but all fail. I have tried every one of the different
> resolutions that are within the horizontal-vertical sync range of my monitor
> but all fail. Here are additional problems:
> - The XFree86 installer has no entry for the ATI RADEON device
> - The XFree86 installer has no entry for the NEC 1740CX monitor
>
> Since I am completely new to Unix I do not know how to send you the log file.
> I am using a different system to install Unix than my Internet connected
> system.
>
> I am sure others have seen problems with the graphics portion of
> installation. This must be a common problem. I had exactly the same problem
> installing
> Suse Linux before trying to use FreeBSD. I found that with Suse, if I
> installed
> at the lowest resolution the OS would resolve the problem during the first
> boot
> and reset the resolution to the max. size. FreeBSD does not do this.
You might be able to gleam some useful information from this URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html
--
Gerard
For AOL (L)Users:
"RAM Disk" is not an installation procedure.
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