Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 00:47:39 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XF86 4.2.0 "xf86cfg" command, one day at a time :( Message-ID: <20020406004237.X68445-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <c3lmc33zn4.mc3@localhost.localdomain>
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On 4 Apr 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> writes: > > If dmesg knows so much -- which it undeniably does -- why is there no XFree86, or plain X binary command, that works "out-of-the-box?!" In some > That's what "XFree86 -configure" does (excepting audio and so on). How well it does it, I don't know. See the XFree86(1) manual. *smiles* I stand by my lament; `XFree86 -outofthebox -configure` only does so well... when I run X as root the screen goes blank and crackly as if in standby. Is this normal or should a session start, or a default background pattern show up at the least? Besides, the "-configure" option creates a config file that (1) doesn't offer interactively to use /dev/sysmouse or let the user specify, (2) insists on using the ati driver when I am pretty sure I am supposed to use the r128 driver instead (from dmesg -a): pci1: <ATI Rage128-RF graphics accelerator> at 5.0 irq 10 and (3) doesn't tell you nice things about getting DRI to work. Mmph. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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