Fwd: Re: question

[Spiros Papadopoulos]

On Thursday 19 January 2006 06:27, Jose Jesus Ortega wrote:
> thanks for the help, I tried edithing the
> xorg.conf.new but when I made the changes that says in
> the freeBSD website handout it made it worse. My
> laptop is compaq and the model is Presario 700 if that
> helps. You think changing from kde to another desktop
> or window manager will help? or its the X server thats
> the problem?

Well i found out some things you may want to look:
the command vidcontrol(1), syscons(4) and then
/usr/defaults/rc.conf has this line (375) in section
"system console options"
allscreens_flags=""     # Set this vidcontrol mode for all virtual screens

the modes are listed in vidcontrol and there are other interesting options in
this section.

Because if i understood well then you have problems with the console and the
gui, is this right?
Well the console has nothing to do with xorg.conf in this case. This is set
before you start the xserver.

I tryied allscreens_flags="VGA_90x60" i reboot but didn't work. However I
won't be able to see the machine for the next two weeks.
Let me know if you make it work.

Spiros

> --- Spiros Papadopoulos <spap at avrolymos.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 January 2006 00:23, Jose Jesus Ortega
> >
> > wrote:
> > > thanks but the Fn+F7 didn't help, nothing happens,
> >
> > and
> >
> > > yes I'm using a laptop. Is there another way?
> >
> > I never had this problem myself. I have a friend
> > with an HP laptop that gets
> > the command line interface always in the  middle of
> > the screen. However KDE
> > works fine for him so we never got messed with this
> > until know..
> > The only difference i can see right now is that he
> > gives
> > #kdm and not #startx to start KDE and it starts
> > normally (whole screen)
> > In his case Fn + F7 combination doesn't work with
> > the non-graphical interface
> > but works with KDE.
> > To further help you personaly i will have a look but
> > not in less than 10-12
> > hours from now.
> > are you editing the xorg.conf file or using
> > #xorgconfig (or similar command)
> > to make changes?
> >
> > Anyone else faced with this already?
> >
> > /* Sorry that i didn't cc before.... */
> >
> > Spiros
> >
> > > --- Spiros Papadopoulos <spap at avrolymos.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > > >
> > > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > > >
> > > > > questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jose Jesus
> > > >
> > > > Ortega
> > > >
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:20 AM
> > > > > To: questions at freebsd.org
> > > > > Subject: question
> > > > >
> > > > > I installed freeBSD 6.0 on my pc and kde but
> > > >
> > > > starting
> > > >
> > > > > "startx"
> > > > > will only display a small part of the whole
> > > >
> > > > screen.
> > > >
> > > > Is your pc a laptop?
> > > > For example if this happens on my laptop, I may
> >
> > be
> >
> > > > able to alter it with the
> > > > combination "Fn+F7". Is there such chance in
> >
> > your
> >
> > > > case?
> > > > Just in case this helps.
> > > >
> > > > >I tried
> > > > > configuring the X11 but when I add the
> >
> > "HorizSync"
> >
> > > > at
> > > >
> > > > > 30-107 and "VertRefresh" at 48-120 the screen
> >
> > only
> >
> > > > > diplays colors. How do I make it make kde
> >
> > appear
> >
> > > > with
> > > >
> > > > > the whole screen?
> >
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