From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 12 09:48:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23727 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:48:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23722 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:48:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA14750; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:47:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:47:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: John Derk cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: installing XWindows In-Reply-To: <35CFC10D.895AA0B4@infoserve.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, John Derk wrote: > Then I backed out to the FreeBSD Configuration Menu where I selected > some Packages. > > Finally, I went into the "XFree86" screen, where I selected "XF86 > Setup". Then I got a message about which mouse protocols to use, > selected "OK," and finally, there was a screen with the message "Press > enter to switch to graphics mode..." I hit enter and waited. After > about a minute, I was simply returned to the previous menu. That's as > far as I got. Odd. What brand/model of video card do you have? As a stopgap you can use the text mode xf86config utility. Just follow the prompts and you should be ok. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message