Fwd: Re: question

[Nathan Vidican]

Spiros Papadopoulos wrote:
> 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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Had a Pressario 730CA myself, and the machine's video goes bazerk switching back 
from GUI/graphics to console - same problem under netbsd and openbsd too... 
Upgraded a year ago to an AMD64-based Compaq Pressario 3000-series, same problem 
still ... turned out to be the video driver. I 'upgraded' to the nvidia driver 
and things are WAY better now, can switch consoles, smoother 3d performance too. 
Not recall the video chipset in the 700 series though, but if I recall they were 
nvidia too no?

Anyhow - just thought I'd drop my two cents, took me a million 
support/frustrated emails to various lists before I got it figured out too, hope 
this might help.

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Nathan Vidican
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