Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:59:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Brad J. Whynot" <Whynotbj@GOV.NS.CA> Cc: Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808071358180.15104-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <s5cac980.012@gov.ns.ca>
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On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Brad J. Whynot wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD three times now via FTP and I include > everything in the packages section and in the distribution section I > believe that is what it is called. The question I have is that when I > have tried this from 2 or 3 different sites and go to use the > configuration tool to setup XWindows I get the message, " XFree86 is > not installed on your computer please install this to use the > configuration utility." Or something along those lines. The thing I > don't understand is that when I am retrieving the files across the > internet it is saying that the files are being downloaded and > uncompressed to my pc. X may not be in your PATH. If you're trying to run XF86Setup, try the command /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup You must install the 'set' distribution and the 'VGA16' X server for XF86Setup to work though. 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 freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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