From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 31 1:22:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailin2.email.bigpond.com (juicer14.bigpond.com [139.134.6.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC09437B423 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 01:22:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle ([139.134.4.51]) by mailin2.email.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GE6Y5Y00.D0Q; Thu, 31 May 2001 18:27:34 +1000 Received: from CPE-61-9-142-202.vic.bigpond.net.au ([61.9.142.202]) by mail7.bigpond.com (Claudes-Superb-MailRouter V2.9c 15/3006047); 31 May 2001 18:22:12 Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 18:22:01 +1000 (E. Australia Standard Time) From: Doug Young To: bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au, arjan@jak.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X install always hangs on my Intel 815 celeron Message-ID: X-X-Sender: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au 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 > > Hi all, > > Problems as usual! with installing X > > I have never been successful in installing it on 4.2 > > release. > I've typically found X a worry, however I think its mostly because of the extremely flaky auto-detect routine for video devices. I tried a test install last week with XFree 3.x, bog standard S3 Virge 325, & blackbox instead of those KDE / Gnome monstrosities ..... voila !!!!! I still can't see a lot of point in X on a server though ..... unlike Solaris / SCO virtually all the config is command line so all X does for me is waste a bit of space & open a potential security hole or three. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message