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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Xfre86 on a VGA monitor Date: 18 Aug 1996 07:53:51 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4v6i6f$8v@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <accentkc-1708961750520001@line62.sellersburg.thepoint.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E accentkc@qni.com (jake) wrote: > i have a trident svga video card, but an old crappy vga monitor. the > problem is that X is linked to XF86_SVGA, not XF86_VGA_16. actually, the > problem is that XF866_VGA_16 doesnt even appear in /usr/X11R6/bin. So you forgot to install it. Simply unpack the .tgz file directly. There used to be a README in the XFree86 distribution explaining the contents of the various archive files. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)