From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 9 22:05:02 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A303816A4CE for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 22:05:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.terralink.de (mail.tlink.de [217.9.16.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41DDD43D2D for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 22:05:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from me@daniel.stefan.haischt.name) Received: from smtp.abyssworld.de (daniel-s-haischt.biz [84.252.66.2]) by mail.terralink.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD5CBD649; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 23:04:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (smtp.abyssworld.de [192.168.1.6]) by smtp.abyssworld.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF8018B35; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 23:04:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.abyssworld.de ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with ESMTP id 54322-10; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 23:04:55 +0100 (CET) Received-SPF: none (smtp.abyssworld.de: 192.168.1.6 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of daniel.stefan.haischt.name) client-ip=192.168.1.6; envelope-from=me@daniel.stefan.haischt.name; helo=[192.168.120.239]; Received: from [192.168.120.239] (smtp.abyssworld.de [192.168.1.6]) by smtp.abyssworld.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2473018B2F; Sun, 9 Jan 2005 23:04:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41E1AA84.809@daniel.stefan.haischt.name> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:04:52 +0100 From: "Daniel S. Haischt" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John References: <20050109152313.A37770@starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <20050109152313.A37770@starfire.mn.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Processed-By: GNU Anubis v4.0 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at abyssworld.de cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lost my X11 config - what was the old tool to build it? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:05:02 -0000 Did you read: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html John schrieb: > Before Win98 destroyed my nice FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE installation on > my Compaq Armada M700 laptop, I had a really good X configuration > which, if I remember correctly, was generated almost entirely > automatically somehow. (No, I didn't have a backup of that config > file, and I've already kick myself many times.) Anyway, I am trying > to get this back up and running with XFree86 4.3.0 and FreeBSD > 5.2.1. > > I sure can't get anything that's useful now from the X86Config > script - all it does is ask me questions that I don't really know > the answer to - partly because it is a Laptop, and I can't just > easily see what the built-in adapter is. Whatever configuration > utility that I ran before, I sure can't find it now - it seemed > to make VERY good recommendations, and I could sure use some! > > I've checked the XFree86 web site, and didn't find much useful there. > > I've done global web searches for XFree86 and this laptop, but > they must be for versions that are too old, because they don't > work for me, complaining of Drivers that don't exist, and so forth. > > I'd be tempted to just reload 4.9-RELEASE and re-do it from there, > but I'm afraid I may run into a similar problem - where the config > file there, even if I get it, won't work with the new stuff. > > Any pointers will be appreciated. -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Daniel S. Haischt Wan't a complete signature??? Type at a shell prompt: $ > finger -l haischt@daniel.stefan.haischt.name