From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 21 16:55:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB2A37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACCC43E3B for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rpratt1950@earthlink.net) Received: from user206.net235.fl.sprint-hsd.net ([64.45.227.206] helo=k6-2.weeble.com) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 183mO2-00048d-00; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:55:07 -0700 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:57:03 -0400 From: Randy Pratt To: "leegold" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fbsd 4.7 - where is XF86Setup ? Message-Id: <20021021195703.7efd77b2.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org leegold wrote: > I definitely confirmed it. No XF86Setup in X 4.2.0. > In my opinion, this is a gigantic blunder. And it hurts the > average user the most. The most time saving config tool is gone! > XF86Setup has saved people LOTS of time. > > I'm just amazed at this whole thing. > Have you tried using the xf86config tool as described in the Handbook Installation section (2.9.11 Configure X Server)? It will generally produce a useable XF86Config file that can be used without modification. The XF86Setup was easy to use, but apparently the XFree86 project has decided to discontinue its use so we have to use the tools provided. This isn't unique to FreeBSD and any OS employing recent versions of XFree86 will be the same. Hope this helps a bit. Randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message