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From: dominion@ripco.com (Michael Chisari)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD and X-Windows.
Date: 5 Jul 1997 00:02:14 GMT
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        I recently installed the Walnut Creek version of FreeBSD, and 
everything seems to be working fine.  Except for X-Windows.  It's a bit hard 
to explain (I'm a unix newbie, so far my only exposure has been to a unix 
shell for my ISP), but X-Windows looks almost nothing like what I've seen it 
look like (for instance, I noticed they were using it on the Discovery Channel 
a couple of hours ago on the Discovery Channel and CNN to show live pictures 
of Mars).  Instead, it's a lot less intuitive, and looks like it's running in 
640x480x16c, using a 1024x768 virtual screen, whereas I'd like it to run in 
800x600x64k, using no virtual screen (like I'm running Win95 currently).  I 
believe it might be a problem with my video card setup (I have a Diamond 
Stealth64 Video VRAM with an S3 chipset).

        Any help would be appreciated.

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