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  On 08/23/10 12:11, Warren Block wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote:
>
>> I forgot to mention that previous to my installing 8.1 I had PCBSD 
>> 8.1 installed just to check it out (no likee), and the PCBSD 
>> installer had no problem configuring X.  Unfortunately, I don't have 
>> a copy of that xorg.conf.
>
> PCBSD has a live mode to run without installing.  Boot into that and 
> copy the xorg.conf to external media.

I forgot.  The version of PCBSD that I had installed on the Thinkpad was 
the legacy version.  The latest version, PCBSD 8.1, won't install.  The 
screen goes blank and the computer freezes, just as happens when trying 
to install X11 with FreeBSD 8.1