From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 19:17:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17239 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:17:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16790 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:15:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA00188; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:15:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:15:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Bryan Parkoff cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD v2.2.5 Questions In-Reply-To: <34DFAC45.A9F2AED0@texas.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Bryan Parkoff wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to FreeBSD v2.2.5. I have a complete FreeBSD book. It has > general topics that I cannot follow. It does not have step on step > installation and X-Windows setup. > > When I try to configure X-Windows, I set S3 video card, and I set > 640x480 resolution. It runs on X-Server. The screen is scrambled that > I cannot read. Do you have instruction how to configure X-Windows? Try running `xf86config' and pick out your card from the card database. I've always used that and had excellent results. > I see that there are not many people who post newsgroups. I will > like to have feedback on newsgroups when I have problems. I have a lot > of questions to ask. I think the group is comp.os.unix.freebsd or comp.os.freebsd. I don't read newsgroups so I have no idea. > Do you know which newsgroups are better that I can use? Do you have > tutorial book that has step on step? The Complete FreeBSD is as close as it gets to true FreeBSD stuff, unfortunately. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message