From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 14:27: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (pogo.caustic.org [208.44.193.69]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE974184 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:27:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.9.3/ignatz) with ESMTP id OAA23301; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:27:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:27:14 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Dubbs Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Some very newbie questions... In-Reply-To: <013401bf6dde$c6847500$87db1b18@cfl.rr.com> 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 Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Dubbs wrote: > 1.) Is there a X-Server for the Diamond Viper V770 Ultra TNT2 Card? If so > where and how do I install it? the best place to check for it would be either http://www.xfree86.org or http://www.xi.com as either of them will have the latest information on the supported cards. > 2.) What is the most recent version of X available and where can I get it > and a description of how to install it? the most recent versions are the pre-4.0 snapshots. the most recent (from the ports directory) version is 3.3.6. if you install it from the ports collection, you should be fine. > 3.) What is the most recent version of afterstep available and where can I > get it and a description of how to install it? again, check the ports directory. afterstep should be in x11-wm/afterstep. > 4.) Is there a good all-in-one site for FreeBSD Newbies? the handbook, mostly. also check out the search pages at http://www.freebsd.org/search.html there are numerous other places, aswell, but the best, hands down (in my opinion) is http://www.freebsddiary.com. > 5.) How can I keep my ports collection up to date? cvsup. or, more exactly, edit the supfile called "ports-supfile" so that it will point at one of the cvs servers, and update it from there. the commands and files can be found in /usr/share/examples/cvsup. also, make sure you have cvsup built, or installed from the cdrom. it'll be under the net section of the packages, or in /usr/ports/net/cvsup (make install that one). > That's all...I know these are dumb questions but they're the only things I > haven't been able to sufficiently figure out... hope this helps you some. +-----/ f. johan beisser /------------------------------+ email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message