From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 20:43:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA14240 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:43:24 -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 UAA14230 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:42:44 -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 UAA26082; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:42:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:42:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Jason L." cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-Windows In-Reply-To: <19980114000951.14465.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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