Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:36:25 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: pstern <pstern@ptialaska.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2 problems Message-ID: <20010123003624.A12560@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0101222102480.1252-100000@jago.65north.com>; from pstern@ptialaska.net on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:12:03PM -0900 References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0101222102480.1252-100000@jago.65north.com>
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pstern (pstern@ptialaska.net) wrote: > 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. There is no longer an XF86Setup in XFree86-4. The gui-replacement tool is xf86cfg (or the equivalent XFree86 -configure). This tool is not quite as nice as the old XF86Setup (which would give positive feedback on mouse configuration, etc.), but it is servicable. When run as root, it places a new XF86Config file in /root. The old console-based xf86config program is pretty much the same as the old 3.x program. As for fonts, did you choose to build fonts with the XFree86 install? Also, another *very common* error is failing to install /usr/ports/x11/wrapper, which is needed if you are launching X as a non-root user using startx/xinit. If you still have problems, try capturing the error messages with script (man 1 script) and post the results here. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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