From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 28 12:41:52 2002 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 5BD3A37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:41:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from 12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA5143E3B for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:41:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (master.gorean.org [10.0.0.2]) by 12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9SKfhmX007329; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:41:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3DBDA107.CA9B937F@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:41:43 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johnson David Cc: leegold , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fbsd 4.7 - where is XF86Setup ? References: <20021021060543.B2441E27A@server2.fastmail.fm> <200210281123.16003.djohnson@acuson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Johnson David wrote: > > On Sunday 20 October 2002 11:05 pm, leegold wrote: > > I definitely confirmed it. No XF86Setup in X 4.2.0. > > In my opinion, this is a gigantic blunder. And it hurts the > > average user the most. The most time saving config tool is gone! > > XF86Setup has saved people LOTS of time. > > Jumping in late here... > > I suspect that the XFree86 guys don't consider a GUI config tool all that > important anymore, since just about every Linux distro uses their own anyway. > Just speculating... It's a bad idea to send guesses to a list that's widely distributed. I belive that what the original poster wants is xf86cfg. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message