Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:41:00 -0700 From: "Preston Crawford" <me@prestoncrawford.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Setting up X on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <9b954dcdc7ba4dd793aa4e180d311cf5.me@prestoncrawford.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: Johnson David Sent: 11/6/2003 11:19:02 AM To: me@prestoncrawford.com;freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up X on FreeBSD? > On Thursday 06 November 2003 09:41 am, me@prestoncrawford.com wrote: > > > I'm not looking for help, so much as I'm looking for positive > > affirmations that this can be done relatively easily once I get my > > hands on a book or really start digging into the handbook. > > I affirm that this can be done relatively easy. The trick is knowing > what video hardware you have, and if an older monitor, the refresh > rates. Make sure you can start X before you turn on GDM or KDM. > > The Handbook talks about this. My preferred method is to use xf86config, > but you need to know about your hardware. An alternate method talked > about in the Handbook is to use "XFree86 -configure", but you need to > hand "tune" the configuration afterwards to get what you want. Acually, since I currently have SuSE running, I copied SuSE's XF86Config file onto a floppy and used it to get my settings right in FreeBSD. Basically pulling out the parts I new would help the FreeBSD X config file be more accurate. So I have a good, working config file off which to base my FreeBSD file. When I did this (made my own config file) "startx" fired up without problems, except for a mouse that bounced directly to the upper right corner and stayed there for some reason. And then, when I fired up gdm I got an error that said "gdm is already running". Weird. When I fired up KDM it came up right. But then it got stuck after I logged in. So that's why I asked how easy it was. Seemingly I got X configured close, but it's still not working quite right. I forgot about XFree86 -configure. Maybe I'll try that tonight and once again apply changes from the SuSE file into the FreeBSD file. Maybe there's stuff specific to FreeBSD that wasn't covered when I ran configuration via /stand/sysinstall's various X configurators. Preston
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