From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Oct 10 13:16:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26411 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:16:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sar.anit.es (sar.anit.es [195.76.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26318 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:16:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swalk@anit.es) Received: from cyrix (p2h249.anit.es [195.76.122.249]) by sar.anit.es (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA22936 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 22:15:41 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981010215645.0080c210@sar.anit.es> X-Sender: swalk@sar.anit.es X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 21:56:45 +0200 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Steven Walker Subject: XFree86 & things Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I have read the XFree86 chapter in "The Complete FreeBSD" on installing this and am worried that I might damage my hardware having an old second hand monitor with no documentation. The snag is that I do not actually know what the prog does. Is it a must have, a luxury or a load of junk? I would hate to spend ages getting it set up and zap it 10 minutes later. Incidentally I did see the following in the recent FreeBSD-Newbies First Aid Kit "FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG is the place to send all questions about installing, configuring, running and using FreeBSD. All help requests are handled by FreeBSD-Questions, including newbies questions. FreeBSD-Newbies is different. We don't ask for help or answer how-to questions. It is a discussion forum for newbies." I think my posting just about complies with that but I do find it rather restricting. The questions group is very busy and most of what goes on there is completely unintelligible at the moment. What would really suit me is a less busy group dealing with more elementary questions without feeling intimidated. It would also be a lot less time consuming not having to wade through 100 messages a day looking for the odd nugget. I suspect some of the corporate network managers have the same feeling about finding interesting topics. A good example today is ML Duke's explanation of how to reinstall Boot Manager after M$ zapped it. I was having exactly this problem, and was going to start searching around. I would have got to the FAQ after searching the book. I have just been saved a lot of time and am grateful. Maybe it is because I have no Unix background that I am finding it hard going. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message