From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 8 6:36:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rebel.net.au (rebel.rebel.net.au [203.20.69.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3374737B405 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 06:36:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lloy0076@rebel.net.au) Received: from rebel.net.au (dialup-8.rebel.net.au [203.20.69.78]) by rebel.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA06214; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 23:06:07 +0930 Message-ID: <3B4862A0.76130DDD@rebel.net.au> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 23:09:44 +0930 From: David Lloyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: sherifshawky@tecmina.com, FBSD-Q Subject: Re: X Win problem .. References: <200107080807.LAA04238@tecmina.com> <20010708154715.C2296@everest.wananchi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmmmm.... > Some details about the errors you get might help. What is the graphics card that you use? > What have you done so far in your attempts to get X to work. AFAIK, it _rarely_ works on the fly. > While this list might help, there is also a newbie@XFree86.org list that has more of the X stuff .. 1) Run stand/sysinstall 2) Do post configuration 3) Goto X and the Desktop etc etc 4) Select, in order of niceness: - XF86Setup - Xf86config 5) See what you can do with that XF86Setup may state you require certain things. By following the menu choices, install them if you need to. (I hope I'm making sense) DSL -- "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and to be loved in return." - David Bowie (Nature Boy from Moulin Rouge) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message