Re: XFree86 on OpenBSD

["Chris Campbell" <ijkdc_(_at_)_hotmail_(_dot_)_com>]

I decided to dump the output of XFree to a file and then I was able to see 
what the problem was.  Monitor specs were too low.  I went back and selected 
an appropriate monitor config and now everything is ok.


> You wrote (in your message from Monday 20)
>  > I have OpenBSD 2.5 running on a 486 (box I described earlier).  The 
> machine
>  > has 20 MB of RAM and a Trident ISA video card with a TVGA9000B chip.  I
>  > successfully configured and tested the card with the XF86 configuration
>  > program and set it to 640x480, 8bpp, but when I run startx, it says,
>  >
>  > (--) SVGA: There is no mode definition named "640x480"
>  >
>  > Fatal server error:
>  > No valid modes found.
>  >
>  >
>  > and then it quits.  Any ideas on how to fix this?
>
> Look at your /etc/XF86Config file and the full output of the
> server. Either the "640x480" mode line is not included in
> /etc/XF86Config, or it is rejected by the SVGA server for some reason
> (which is probably listed above the error line you're quoting here).
>
>
> --
> 					Matthieu

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