From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 28 11:24:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8D5737B406 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:24:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A884143E42 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:24:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H4P00H6PHTILA@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:22:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:20:04 -0800 Received: from balderdash.acuson.com (dhcp-46-171.acuson.com [157.226.46.171]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id RSV18V5G; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:22:11 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:23:15 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: Re: Fbsd 4.7 - where is XF86Setup ? In-reply-to: <20021021060543.B2441E27A@server2.fastmail.fm> To: leegold , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <200210281123.16003.djohnson@acuson.com> Organization: Acuson MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021021060543.B2441E27A@server2.fastmail.fm> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday 20 October 2002 11:05 pm, leegold wrote: > I definitely confirmed it. No XF86Setup in X 4.2.0. > In my opinion, this is a gigantic blunder. And it hurts the > average user the most. The most time saving config tool is gone! > XF86Setup has saved people LOTS of time. Jumping in late here... I suspect that the XFree86 guys don't consider a GUI config tool all that important anymore, since just about every Linux distro uses their own anyway. Just speculating... David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message