Very Computer

        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.

--

 "I met a Christian in Christiansands.  A devil in Helsinki."  - Tricky

As far as how many colours... I'm still working on that :-)
Typing 'startx bpp 16' or something like that used to work (?)

If it looks and feels horrible, you've probably got the default "twm" as
your window manager. Use another one. I installed afterstep and like it, but
there's many other good ones, including some that are a bit like win95.

Read your chosen window manager's man pages, edit some configuration files,
and you can make that screen look and feel like anything you ever dreamed
of. It's one of the most rewarding hard slogs you'll ever encounter.

Regards,
        -*Sue*-

startx -- -bpp 16