From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 22:36:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kraeusen.nbrewer.com (unknown [208.42.68.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F3D837B402 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:36:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 726E017438; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:36:25 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:36:25 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: pstern Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2 problems Message-ID: <20010123003624.A12560@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , pstern , questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from pstern@ptialaska.net on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:12:03PM -0900 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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