From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 19:59:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF84E37B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 19:59:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust243.tnt3.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.20.91.243]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA15822; Wed, 9 May 2001 19:59:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA01120; Wed, 9 May 2001 22:58:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200105100258.WAA01120@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: Xfree86 In-Reply-To: <20010509205533.R56456-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain> from "Christopher W. Aiken" at "May 9, 2001 09:06:45 pm" To: cwaiken@icubed.com (Christopher W. Aiken) Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 22:58:56 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can still use xf86config. I actually prefer it because I have found that the newer configuration tools cause your video to leave and not come back until after a reboot(of course this is with a Matrox 450 card, YMMV). Ian As told by, Christopher W. Aiken > > I have FreeBSD 4.2 installed with XFree86 3.xxx installed. > I used the ports collections and "made" XFree86 4.xxx. > I have not done a "make install" yet because I have a few > questions first. > > 1) How do I configure XFree86 4.xxx?? I used xf86config > to configure XFree86 3.xxx > > 2) If I do a "make install" I would assume that I will > have both version 3.xxx and 4.xxx installed. When I do > a "startx" how does FreeBSD determine which one to use?? > If version 4.xxx fails I would need to go back to version 3.xxx > > BTW... Nice job on the port. After the two source files were > down loaded, the "compiles" took a couple of hours on my system. > I was pleasantly supprise that there were no errors or problems. > > -=[cwa]=- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message