From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 24 03:44:08 2004 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 AAFFA16A4CE for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:44:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from splinter.bowdoin.edu (rocksteady.bowdoin.edu [139.140.34.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7188943D31 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:44:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alec@thened.net) Received: by splinter.bowdoin.edu (Postfix, from userid 12008) id 709AC14F7; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:42:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:42:28 -0400 From: Alec Berryman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041024034228.GB1992@thened.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Ned-Wuz-Here: Yes X-GPG-Fingerprint: 3DB5 8785 53D9 8BF4 5049 B6B9 02E7 7FD9 881C 85C4 X-GPG-Key: http://www.thened.net/~alec/static/alec.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 RC1 X Config 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, 24 Oct 2004 03:44:08 -0000 --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline begin quotation of David Findlay on 2004-10-23 23:36:34 -0400: > So I have a bootable FreeBSD system with X and KDE packages installed > but not configured. Am I supposed to go run xorgconfig by hand from a > regular shell afterwards? This asks for monitor vsync etc like the old > linux ones did; the newer ones let you pick your monitor by name - I > was hoping the X configuration I can't find in sysinstall would do > this too. I'd give 'Xorg -configure' a shot (from console as root). Xorg's autoconfiguration has worked much better for me than XFree86's. See the Handbook [1] for more information. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBeySkAud/2YgchcQRAv/nAJ9pq1fKtdFWQV70uv4Oz+QEhKASpACfd+0k ro88xeInLdV2I1TT1J86feQ= =eugl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD--