From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 22 09:48:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA29124 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 09:48:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from valis.goatsucker.org (dialup-port3.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA29107 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 09:48:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsm@acm.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by valis.goatsucker.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA00604; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:40:36 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:40:36 GMT Message-Id: <199803220040.AAA00604@valis.goatsucker.org> From: Scott Mitchell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Matthew D. Fuller" CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: S3 but no action In-Reply-To: <107942224@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.31 under 20.2 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew D. Fuller said: >On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Lee Johnston wrote: > >> You don't start X by typing the name of the server you are using. You must >> link your server to a file called X, ie: ln -s XF86_S3 X and run X by >> typing startx, this loads your window manager, etc. >> >> If you ran xf86config, this would of all been done for you. >XF86Setup, actually >xf86config is the config file: XF86Setup is the setup utility. Actually, XF86Config (probably living in /etc) is the config file. There are two setup utilities: xf86config (text mode) and XF86Setup (which runs under X). xf86config is the more comprehensive of the two. HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just | 0xE8A64271 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message