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From: csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton)
Subject: Getting X working on my machine
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 20:28:14 GMT


Hi

I have a gateway 2000, P75 at work and I want to run FreeBSD on it.  I
have installed it with the manpages and some other things very nicely,
but I am having some trouble configuring X on it.  I think that I am
just screwed.  Here is the information:

I have a Vivtron 1572 monitor with a STB Powergraph 32 video card.  Is
this going to be a feasible thing?  (I really hope so.  I really want to
switch control and alt on this keyboard so that my left pinky stops
hurting sooo much in emacs...)

I have tried all of the STB video card drivers with the standard VGA
server (option #2 I think on the menu in xf86config).  None of these
work.  It just sits for a couple of minutes and quietly reboots.  

Suggestions??

Thanks
Soren