PWS 600au / Matrox G450 / XFree86-4.3.0 (fwd)

[Jean-Francois Gobin]

What did he do when you press [CTRL][ALT][BACKSPACE] ?

JF


On Sun, 30 May 2004, Marco Beishuizen wrote:

> On stardate Sun, 30 May 2004, the wise Thomas Schwarzkopf entered:
>
> > On Saturday 29 May 2004 17:56, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> >> (WW) MGA: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:0)
> >> found (EE) No devices detected.
> >>
> >> Fatal server error:
> >> no screens found
> >> ...
> >>
> >> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> >> xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "tsunami.bsd:0" in "remove" command
> >
> > I had the same problem with a PC 164 but with a different videocard.
> > Adding a line like
> >
> > BusID      "PCI:0:9:0"
> >
> > to Section "Device" of my XF86Config file helped. pciconf -l can help
> > you to find the BusID. /var/log/XFree86.0.log should also report the
> > BusID of yor card.
>
> I added the line BusID "PCI:1:0:0" and Xfree tries to start. But now my
> monitor turns to black and I get a big warning that the "signal frequency
> is out of range". Really weird because I always used the (correct) values
> for horizontal and vertical frequencies for the monitor. The only thing I
> can do at that point is to reset the computer.
>
> Marco
>
> --
> Gray's Law of Programming:
>  	`_n+1' trivial tasks are expected to be accomplished in the same
> time as `_n' tasks.
>
> Logg's Rebuttal to Gray's Law:
>  	`_n+1' trivial tasks take twice as long as `_n' trivial tasks.
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-alpha at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>

----------
Jean-Francois Gobin - Administrateur gobinjf.be
http://www.gobinjf.be   mailto:gobin at gobinjf.be