Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:43:36 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: Carvalho Paulo <hallofdreams@yahoo.com.br>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 configuration Message-ID: <200401130743.36528.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <20040113083118.31358.qmail@web12823.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040113083118.31358.qmail@web12823.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tuesday 13 January 2004 02:31 am, Carvalho Paulo wrote: > Hello everyone, > I just installed FreeBSD 4.9, and when I try to > cofigure X through sysinstall it gives an error > message in the end. The messege says that an error has > ocurred and asks if I want to try again. I tried > several times and then gave up. > What I want to know is if there is any way that I > can know what went wrong so that I can do it right. > The error message does not give any clue as to what > hapened. > Thanks in advance for taking time to read this > message and for a possible reply. > > Paulo de Carvalho. I stopped using the X configuration utilities in favor of 'XFree86 -configure' to let XFree86 make its best guess at my hardware. It creates a configuration file under /root/ for review and modification. There are directions at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould
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