Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:03:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Michael Henry <mhenry@hons.cs.usyd.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: basic info on freebsd needed... Message-ID: <19990804110354.C62948@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990803042118.7D615151C7@hub.freebsd.org>; from Michael Henry on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 02:20:51PM %2B1000 References: <19990803120725.N62948@freebie.lemis.com> <19990803042118.7D615151C7@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 14:20:51 +1000, Michael Henry wrote: >> I have just set up a laptop with X and all that good stuff. I had no >> difficulty installing FreeBSD, but I haven't been successful in >> installing X on the Red Hat system, this despite that fact that it's >> the same XFree86 on both platforms, and that I think I understand it >> pretty well. > > You wrote the book, after all :) > > (Which includes an excellent chapter titled "XFree86 configuration in depth". > I didn't read this chapter when I did the initial install, but when I did > a major upgrade I read it so I could "tweak" my configuration. Very > interesting stuff. I just wish the @%^#!&*$ manufacturers would provide all > the data about their products!) > > Getting back on topic, I recently installed FreeBSD on a PC here at uni, and was > able to use the same XF86Config that Linux had been using. Good point. Since I have FreeBSD and Linux on the same laptop, I just copied the file. I had to change the name of the mouse device, but then it worked. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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