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From: "Oliver B. Fischer" <plexus@snafu.de>
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X can produce a XF86Config with quite resonable defaults if you start 
XFree86 -configure. It will put the new file in root's home.

Regards

Oliver Fischer


Squirrel Havoc wrote:
> I was able to boot into FreeBSD (finally!), and went
> on to configure X11 by using "xf86config", answered
> all the questions, but after that, when I would type
> "X" or "startx", it starts up, then exits with an
> error like "no screen present". What config step am I
> missing?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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