From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Dec 26 13:41:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4F537B401 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:41:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B6943EE1 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:41:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com[12.231.115.57]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with SMTP id <20021226214140001003o2h3e>; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 21:41:40 +0000 Message-ID: <3E0B7794.5020108@mac.com> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:41:40 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mobile Subject: [Fwd: Re: XFree86 troubles in 5.0 RC2] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org forwarded to mobile- to keep it in the archives. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: XFree86 troubles in 5.0 RC2 Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:48:57 -0600 From: Greg Brooks To: paul beard References: <1067750537690-BeMail@pc_lintest2> <3E0B69E7.9060302@mac.com> I agree -- even with 5.0 due out in a few weeks, 4.7 might be your best bet. Also, it's worth mentioning that although I had similar Xfree troubles when installing 4.7, using the ncurses (sp?) version of the X configuration tool resulted in a working install. Quoting paul beard : > Stephan Assmus wrote: > > > So, I'm stuck. I actually installed FreeBSD to check out the Gnome and > > KDE desktop and use Gimp. I don't know in which direction to > > investigate further. Thanks for any and all help. > > I would suggest installing 4.7, instead of 5.0-RC2. 5.0 hasn't > been released yet, while 4.7 is an officially supported release. > > > > > -- > Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work > > 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 > > Some programming languages manage to absorb change but withstand > progress. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message