From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 20:13:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAAFC37B404 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:13:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id AB79A9050090; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:15:53 -0800 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:13:10 +0000 From: Chip Wiegand To: "Louis" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question about xfree86 version and FreeBSD Message-Id: <20020318201310.7b81a585.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <000a01c1cefa$66285670$0400a8c0@trollbox> References: <000a01c1cefa$66285670$0400a8c0@trollbox> Organization: Alternative Operating Systems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:58:54 -0600 "Louis" wrote: > Hi, > > I can't find the answer to this question in your docs: > > What version of your software includes xfree86 4.1.0 or higher as the > default version of xfree86 available during install? None, only 3.3.6 is installed by default. > I use a Matrox > G450. I was not able to get xfree86 installed on my system > post-install. What are the error messages? Provide a bit more info please. > I'm a newbie. For some reason, the cvsup without gui package I > downloaded via ftp and installed with pkg_add after my 4.5 release > install doesn't seem to work either. Again, you need to provide details. > So basically, I'm not able to learn FreeBSD yet using the GUI. So for > now, I'm stuck learning *nix using Linux instead of FreeBSD. Help! > > I downloaded 4.5 release. It installed OK without gui, but I want to > use FreeBSD as both a server and as a desktop with Gnome or KDE; so I > need xfree86 4.1.0 to work with my video card. use sysinstall - /stand/sysinstall to install XFree86 4. The handbook has an excellant chapter on just this subject. Make sure you read it and follow it exactly, you will get it working. -- Chip W www.wiegand.org chip@wiegand.org > Thank you very much, > > Louis > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message