From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 31 17:53:30 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA18059 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 31 Jan 1995 17:53:30 -0800 Received: from grendel.csc.smith.edu (grendel.csc.smith.edu [131.229.64.23]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA18051 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 1995 17:53:28 -0800 Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by grendel.csc.smith.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) id UAA12669; Tue, 31 Jan 1995 20:53:33 -0500 From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Message-Id: <199502010153.UAA12669@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Subject: Re: setting up X To: jerryk@indy.net (Jerry Kelley) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 20:53:32 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501281932.AA17544@IndyNet.indy.net> from "Jerry Kelley" at Jan 28, 95 02:32:08 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1466 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jerry Kelley writes: > I'm a new user to FreeBSD. I have just gotten release 2.0 up and running on > my machine. The hurdle I'm attempting to jump now is getting XFree86 up and > running. The install notes leave a _lot_ to be desired. The documentation project is working on that. However, XFree86 is simply an application thrown in on the CD-ROM (and wcarchive.cdrom.com) and is not directly supported by the FreeBSD project and very little of any XFree86 documentation would be FreeBSD specific anyway. (But still, we *are* working on an X installation tutorial!) The newsgroup comp.windows.x.i386unix would probably provide quicker answers to these questions. > 1. Installing XFree86 > 2. Configuring the server for your hardware > 3. Installing windows managers (i.e., OpenLook, Motif, etc...) > 4. Configuring users for X > 5. Maintenance, application installation, etc... 1 and 2 have some system specific aspects, but mostly hardware specific aspects. For the rest, any general reference books on X, or the comp.windows.x.* newsgroups are the best place to look for help. > By the way, is there a Motif manager for XFree86 and FreeBSD? I've found > the OpenLook manager already. For a fee. Motif is not free software (monetarily or otherwise). -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ================================================ =================================== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===