From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 22: 9:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptialaska.net (garza.acsalaska.net [209.193.61.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815F037B402 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:08:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from stern.fai.acsalaska.net (stern.fai.acsalaska.net [208.151.111.225]) by ptialaska.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0N68lr20311 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:08:47 -0900 (AKST) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:12:03 -0900 (AKST) From: pstern X-X-Sender: To: Subject: 4.2 problems 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 I have been a subscriber to FreeBSD since the 2.X versions. I have recently run into problems with trying to do a fresh install of 4.2. Begining with 4.1 the preconfigured window managers (I prefer fvwm2) have been very poor. Now with 4.2 and XFree86 4.01 I cannot even get a working installation of X. There are no obvious errors during the install but the XF86Setup doesn't work. I cannot configure my mouse the A command does nothing. The resulting xf86config aborts because of font problems. I just low level formatted my drive and did a fresh install of 4.1 with XFree86 3.36 and it installed without a problem. motherboard Intel VX440 ppro 200 with over drive to 333. Matrox Millenium I 8mb Adaptec 2940AU Intel Pro100b Creative Lsbs sound blaster. Toshiba Atapi cdrom 101 keyboard Logitech 3 button ps2 I am concerned that not enough time is being spent on the Xfree86 software install or the supplied window manager configurations. I did try, under the 4.2 install, the port for Xfree86-4.0.1 and although the make and install seemed okay, Xfree would not run. It complained about multiple configuration files missing. So while 4.2 installs as text based, I am unable to get X running. Any suggestions would be appreciated Thank you, peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message