any ideas why these xorg hassles???
Michael C. Shultz
ringworm01 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 01:34:40 PST 2005
On Friday 04 March 2005 12:55 am, Gary Kline wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Here's the story XFree-4 vs xorg. I have 4 platforms on
> a KVM so every machine uses the same tube. With XFree,
> my 3 FBSD systems had a flawless 1280x1024 display. With
> xorg, on my E-machines (ATI-Rage- 4M Video) the screen
> quivers. On my HP Kayak (Matrox II 8M) the display is
> steady but the tube is complaining "INVALID SYNC". The
> CRT is a high-end Hitachi. I got the exact specs for both
> the horiz and vert hertz ranges. Before, I was just
> close. Now everything is dead-on.
>
> Another couple things. With XFree, I set the DefaultDepth'
> to 8; now, on both computers it is maxed out at 16. If I
> do set the default depth to 8, xdm fails. (It "tries" to'
> initialize, then something clicks/resets, the screen
> flashes grey for an instant; repeats infinitely.)
>
> Can anyone clue me in on howto get back to XFree on both
> systems? I know about make.conf, but what should I
> pkg_delete?
I'm running portmanager on a test system to see if it is able to
switch between XFree86 and xorg, if it is all you need due is make the
change in make.conf then run portmanager -u. I'll know in an hour or
so the results.
-Mike
>
> thanks for any help,
>
> gary
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