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Date:      Sat, 16 Dec 1995 17:35:39 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        smp@csn.net (Steve Passe)
Cc:        questions@freefall.freebsd.org, deborah@microunity.com
Subject:   Re: Summary: Re: can I run XFree86 on FreeBSD 2.0.5 from a mounted
Message-ID:  <199512160705.RAA29995@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199512150511.WAA25082@clem.systemsix.com> from "Steve Passe" at Dec 14, 95 10:11:36 pm

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Steve Passe stands accused of saying:
> >- - I ran xf86config on the one machine which has XFree86 installed, then
> >  put a copy of the XF86Config file it created into
> >  usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config on the server.
> >  (Again, I can do this since all my machines are identical).
> 
> you can have machine specific XF86Config files by either placing them
> in /etc (which is searched for first) or appending the machine's network name
> to the one in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 (which is searched for 2nd), see the
> XF86Config man page for details.

Note that you will also want to symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors
and xdm-pid out to a local filesystem as well.  In such a setup as you
describe, xdm is highly desirable (for one it reduces login time and 
monitor stress).

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