From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 13:57:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0095D37B408 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:57:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rac2.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac2.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.142]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00032; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:57:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac2.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA00673; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:57:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac2.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00669; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:57:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac2.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:57:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: mc@speakeasy.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.4rc4 & XFree86 4.1.0 In-Reply-To: <200109131723.f8DHNa201361@spidey.speakeasy.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > i installed 4.4 rc4 from cd and xfree86 4.1.0 (since i have a GeForce2 > GTS card)... XF86Setup doesn't exsist so i can't correctly setup > xwindows. I even tried XFree86 -configure and it made the config file > and then proceeded with XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new . > XWindows did start but remained at the point were just the zig zag > background and "x" mouse icon were the only things displaying. The > same thing happens when i use xf86cfg... How can i fix? This is the > error i get when i run the configuration programs. It seems that i > don't have my x11 fonts. I don't know how to install them, i've > installed the XFree86-4-FontServer but same result. After you have a config file, mv /root/XF86Config.new /etc/X11 then startx That SHOULD get you working, but with an 8-bit depth. I'll let you get that far and then tell you how to enable 16/24 bit color depth if that matters to you. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message