emachine x window trouble

[Bob Collins]

At 12:40 PM 7/30/2003, Ken Copling wrote:
>hello i bought an emachine and i chose to put freebsd on it to try it out 
>and when i go to use the x window it goes and shows it to big on my screen 
>so i went to the manufacturers website to get the specs of the system so i 
>can get the display to show correctly like the book said but they wouldnt 
>give out the information so what is there that i can do now to get it to 
>work properly


Have you tried the key combination Ctrl + Alt + plus sign on the keypad? 
You should be able to cycle through different resolutions.

Otherwise, you should modify the X config file to address your resolutions.

-- Bob