Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:11:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se> Cc: freeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XFree86 Message-ID: <20020626160728.O17435-100000@small.pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <000201c21cf9$3e3e7430$34056dd4@chappe2>
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On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Thomas Widlundh wrote: > Hi, > This might be a little off topic on this list, but... > Is the XF86Config file interchangeable between different types of > Unix/Linux OS's? > I have FreeBSD 4.5 with XFree86 3.3.6 and startx works as inspected. > I have Slackware 8.0 on the second HDD with exactly the same version > of > XFree86 3.3.6, but this will not start at all. And this on the very > same machine. > Can I just copy the BSD XF86Config file into Slackware? The file is > plain text and > XFree86 is not an OS, it's a tool for many Unix type OS's. Am I > thinking in the > wrong direction here? > As I wrote above, this is a BSD list, but I hope someone have some > experiences to share. Just try it! Save your working file with something like # mv XF86Config XF86Config.old copy your new file to the appropriate place and # startx It will work or not. In case something looks strange hit <ctrl> + <alt> + <backspace> to kill the X server Good luck! Uli. > Thanks, > Thomas > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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