From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 21 09:50:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F70137B401 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 09:50:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amanda.ok.turkuamk.fi (amanda.ok.turkuamk.fi [193.166.135.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C99C43F75 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 09:50:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kim.fredenberg@dc.turkuamk.fi) Received: from dc.turkuamk.fi (private-27.private.softalabra.com [192.168.0.27]) by amanda.ok.turkuamk.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177885002A; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:50:54 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <3EF4B792.7000706@dc.turkuamk.fi> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:52:50 +0000 From: Kim Fredenberg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030324 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeandre du Toit References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: David Lodeiro cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 16:50:57 -0000 Jeandre du Toit wrote: >That option seems to work alot better than the graphical option. I am glad >that I am not the only person that suffers trying to use that. > >Thanks alot for all the help. >Jeandre > >On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, David Lodeiro wrote: > > > Hi, I typically do 'XFree86 -configure' as root. This method automtically detects your hardware. Then I manually edit the missing parts such as Monitor rates, keyboard layout etc. by hand. I find this an easy way of configuring X. After I did it in this way a couple of times it made me feel that it was much quicker and easier than any config frontend. Kim