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From: "Totally Jayyness" <Jayyness@mindspring.com>
To: "Martin Karlsson" <martin.karlsson@visit.se>
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Subject: Re: Configuring XFree86 4.X ............... GRRRRR
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 07:24:42 -0700
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Thanks for the tip... doesn't seem to be workign for me... the only place I
can find that file is in

/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4/work/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf86cfg/cf86cfg

and that is with the locate command... if I try to cd to that directory, I
get permission denied... even as root...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Karlsson" <martin.karlsson@visit.se>
To: "Totally Jayyness" <Jayyness@mindspring.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: Configuring XFree86 4.X ............... GRRRRR


> On Fri Dec 21, 2001 at 06:51:52AM -0700, Totally Jayyness wrote:
>
> > But when I try to run XFree86 -configure, it can't find it.  I have done
> > find searches and even updated my Locate Database but this file just
doesn't
> > exist.  I tried looking through the man XFree86 and it says there are a
> > couple of config files but I can't find these either.
>
> I had the same problem. Eventually I found out about 'xf86cfg'. See if
> you can find that one. That comand will fire up an X session, in which
> you can configure X.
>
> However, it doesn't seem to fix everything, so I had to go in manually
> afterwards and add the 'DefaultDepth 16' and 'Modes 1024x768' (these
> values work for me) in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Martin Karlsson
> <martin.karlsson at visit.se>


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