From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 2 21:21:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from staff.cs.usyd.edu.au (staff.cs.usyd.edu.au [129.78.8.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D615151C7 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 21:21:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhenry@hons.cs.usyd.edu.au) Subject: Re: basic info on freebsd needed... To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:20:51 +1000 (EST) From: "Michael Henry" In-Reply-To: <19990803120725.N62948@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Aug 3, 99 12:07:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 804 Message-Id: <19990803042118.7D615151C7@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I have just set up a laptop with X and all that good stuff. I had no > difficulty installing FreeBSD, but I haven't been successful in > installing X on the Red Hat system, this despite that fact that it's > the same XFree86 on both platforms, and that I think I understand it > pretty well. You wrote the book, after all :) (Which includes an excellent chapter titled "XFree86 configuration in depth". I didn't read this chapter when I did the initial install, but when I did a major upgrade I read it so I could "tweak" my configuration. Very interesting stuff. I just wish the @%^#!&*$ manufacturers would provide all the data about their products!) Getting back on topic, I recently installed FreeBSD on a PC here at uni, and was able to use the same XF86Config that Linux had been using. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message