Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:42:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jason L." <lordmalibu@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-Windows Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980113204204.24708o-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980114000951.14465.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Jason L. wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD on my computer with the X-User > distrubution, and everything installed smoothly. But now there seems to > be no XFree86 on it, how do I get it? Does it still need to be compiled, > even after running the /stand/sysinstall program? (I reinstalled > everything and I found none of the X directories on my system, but > they're listed as part of my path.) Or, do I still have to download the > tar package and then download the source code? (The computer that I have > FreeBSD on isn't capable of going on the internet, because I don't have > a phone jack anywhere near it.) You may need to run XF86Setup or XF86Config to set up the initial bits. Once you've done that, simply run `startx' to get the show rolling. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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