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From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc>
To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>,
	Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Configuring XFree 4 (was: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall
 Makefile dispatch.c dist.c install.c menus.c sysinstall.8)
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--On jeudi 4 avril 2002 03:55 -0800 Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> 
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:10:30PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> What's the current situation with configuring XFree 4?  I still don't
>> see any real configuration utilities.  Does anybody know of some in
>> the offing?
>
>   XFree86 4.2 provides a graphical configuration tool called
> 'xf86cfg', donated in part by one of the Linux distributions.  It is
> similar in concept to XF86Setup, but faster, and less intuitive for
> new users.
>
>   xf86cfg uses "XFree86 -configure" to detect the hardware before
> entering graphical mode, then allows you to edit the configuration
> file that is generated.
>
>   So the three methods for configuring X4.2 are now :
>
>   1. xf86cfg (GUI)
>   2. xf86config (terminal)
>   3. XFree86 -configure (no user input)
>
>   David's recent change to sysinstall give you the first two options
> from the "configure X" menu.

well, I believe that xf86cfg -textmode is quite a good textmode way of 
configuring X4.2

-- 
Mathieu Arnold

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