Grainy X

2005-06-12 Thread Subhro
Hello Folks, I am running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE on an old PIII (1G) Box with 512MB RAM. This box has a GeforceFX 5700LE card fixed into the AGP slot. The ports tree had been upgraded just now and I have installed the Nvidia Drivers from the port tree. However after the driver is loaded from

Re: Grainy X

2005-06-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 02:40:05PM +0530, Subhro wrote: Hello Folks, I am running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE on an old PIII (1G) Box with 512MB RAM. This box has a GeforceFX 5700LE card fixed into the AGP slot. The ports tree had been upgraded just now and I have installed the Nvidia Drivers

Re: Grainy X

2005-06-12 Thread Subhro
On 6/12/2005 14:42, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 02:40:05PM +0530, Subhro wrote: Hello Folks, I am running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE on an old PIII (1G) Box with 512MB RAM. This box has a GeforceFX 5700LE card fixed into the AGP slot. The ports tree had been upgraded just now

Re: Grainy X

2005-06-12 Thread Z.C.B.
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:07:19 +0530 Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/12/2005 14:42, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 02:40:05PM +0530, Subhro wrote: Hello Folks, I am running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE on an old PIII (1G) Box with 512MB RAM. This box has a GeforceFX 5700LE

Re: Grainy X

2005-06-12 Thread Subhro
On 6/12/2005 21:55, Z.C.B. wrote: Taking a look at the xorg.conf, I am surprised that even works. There is no screen section. I dont have a clue about what you are talking about. My xorg.conf *does* have a Screen section. Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device

Re: Grainy X

2005-06-12 Thread Alistair Sutton
On 6/12/05, Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont have a clue about what you are talking about. My xorg.conf *does* have a Screen section. Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 SubSection Display Viewport

Re: Grainy X

2005-06-12 Thread Z.C.B.
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:33:32 +0530 Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/12/2005 21:55, Z.C.B. wrote: Taking a look at the xorg.conf, I am surprised that even works. There is no screen section. I dont have a clue about what you are talking about. My xorg.conf *does* have a

Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.

2005-02-17 Thread Greg Barniskis
Dmitri Furman wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts. Your help with this would be greatly appreciated. I spent a week now trying to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Dimension 8200 Desktop. Most of the time was spent setting up Xorg to work. I have Nvidia video card GeForce MX4400 with 32 MB or RAM. I had to

Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.

2005-02-17 Thread Dmitri Furman
Thank you Greg. Yes it is native resolution for the display. This is what I run Windows on. It is also using 60 Hz for refresh rate. From: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dmitri Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE. Date: Thu

Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.

2005-02-17 Thread Paul Mather
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:25:05 -0600, Dmitri Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts. Your help with this would be greatly appreciated. I spent a week now trying to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Dimension 8200 Desktop. Most of the time was spent setting up Xorg to work. I have

Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.

2005-02-17 Thread Greg Barniskis
Dmitri Furman wrote: Thank you Greg. Yes it is native resolution for the display. This is what I run Windows on. It is also using 60 Hz for refresh rate. From: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dmitri Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grainy X Windows

Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.

2005-02-17 Thread Greg Barniskis
Greg Barniskis wrote: ... Well, sorry it's not the simplest thing. Being an old school CLI mode server monkey, I don't really have any great X Windows expertise to offer. No sooner had I sent this than I recalled the result of a previous experiment I performed trying to get KDE running on 5.2

RE: Grainy X Windows and KDE.

2005-02-17 Thread Dmitri Furman
I was able to resolve the issue. I did not have DefaultDepth setup in Monitor section. I added a line: DefaultDepth 24 In screen section and everything looks great now. Thank you. From: Dmitri Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Grainy X Windows and KDE. Date

Grainy X Windows and KDE.

2005-02-16 Thread Dmitri Furman
Dear FreeBSD experts. Your help with this would be greatly appreciated. I spent a week now trying to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Dimension 8200 Desktop. Most of the time was spent setting up Xorg to work. I have Nvidia video card GeForce MX4400 with 32 MB or RAM. I had to rebuild kernel to

Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.

2005-02-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 23:25:05 -0600, Dmitri Furman wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts. Your help with this would be greatly appreciated. I spent a week now trying to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Dimension 8200 Desktop. Most of the time was spent setting up Xorg to work. I have Nvidia video

Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.

2005-02-16 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: How about posting a screen shot somewhere? It's not very clear what you mean here. It sounds like 256-color mode and/or dithering of colors. That shouldn't be necessary at 16-bit color or beyond, though. -- Anthony