From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 28 11:34:38 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA10470 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Jan 1995 11:34:38 -0800 Received: from IndyNet.indy.net (root@indynet.indy.net [199.3.65.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA10462 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 1995 11:34:36 -0800 Received: from indynet.indy.net (indy1.indy.net) by IndyNet.indy.net with SMTP id AA17544 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Sat, 28 Jan 1995 14:32:08 -0500 Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 14:32:08 -0500 Message-Id: <199501281932.AA17544@IndyNet.indy.net> X-Sender: jerryk@indynet.indy.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: jerryk@indy.net (Jerry Kelley) Subject: setting up X Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm a new user to FreeBSD. I have just gotten release 2.0 up and running on my machine. The hurdle I'm attempting to jump now is getting XFree86 up and running. The install notes leave a _lot_ to be desired. I'm requesting just a basic reference document that explains the steps to getting XFree86 installed then configured for a new FreeBSD user. Ideally I'd like to see high-level steps as follows: 1. Installing XFree86 2. Configuring the server for your hardware 3. Installing windows managers (i.e., OpenLook, Motif, etc...) 4. Configuring users for X 5. Maintenance, application installation, etc... By the way, is there a Motif manager for XFree86 and FreeBSD? I've found the OpenLook manager already. If it helps to explain where I'm coming from, I've been a user and administrator for a small network of Sparc stations running Solaris 2.3. That's the paradigm I'm used to. ------- Jerry Kelley jerryk@indy.net "Life is simply a quest to be somewhere else."