From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 3 18:34:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 538F314C0A for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 18:34:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA03310; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:03:55 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA68163; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:03:55 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:03:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Michael Henry Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: basic info on freebsd needed... Message-ID: <19990804110354.C62948@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990803120725.N62948@freebie.lemis.com> <19990803042118.7D615151C7@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990803042118.7D615151C7@hub.freebsd.org>; from Michael Henry on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 02:20:51PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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