Do you know if 4.3.0 will work on a OPEN BSD 2.9 Kernel? Tom Colson Minister Of Information (919) 788-1366 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: Ted Spradley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Newbie]How to configure X on OpenBSD 2.9 Help! On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:24:20 -0500 "Thomas P. Colson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tried "xf86config" , "xf86cfg -textmode" , "XF86Setup" , "xf86cfg". > Tried LITERALLY every combination of every setting. Tried with a > Matrox G100 VId Card, and a STB card. Still, always get the same > error. [...] > > [...] I get either "no screens found" Or "No mode". You're going to have to stay calm and approach this methodically. I've never touched OpenBSD, so I can't account for any oddities that might be specific to that, but IIRC 2.9 came out about the middle of last year, so it probably was released with XFree86 3.3.6. The release notes for 3.3.6 claim that it supports Matrox G100 PCI cards. STB use video chips from various sources, so you'll have to read the labels on the chips on the board to even guess which server to use for that. Depending on your future plans, you may want to get XFree86 4.2.0 so you won't have to go through this again later. 3.3.6 -> 4.x is a fairly big step, and 4.2.0 does a remarkably good job of configuring itself. ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.0/binaries/OpenBSD-3.0/ In any case, you're going to have to find the log file. Near the top it will tell you what version of XFree86 wrote it and what configuration file it read. If you always get the same error, perhaps the configuration you're changing is not the one that's being used? Further along in the log it will list all the configuration decisions it made, and whether each was based on command-line arguments, configuration file, querying the equipment, or defaults. Error messages at the bottom of the log are usually misleading cascade failures, you need to look earlier in the file for the first sign of trouble. If there's something in the log file that looks significant (e.g., any line that starts with "(EE)") that you don't understand, post the log file and the matching XF86Config file here and maybe someone can explain it. Have you never gotten any sort of graphic display at all? Even with the configuration tool that uses VGA16, 640x480, and Tcl? You'll have to be as specific as you can about symptoms when you post -- it's hard to provide a helpful response to "nothing works right". -- 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
