From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 2 11:29: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from imr2.ericy.com (imr2.ericy.com [12.34.240.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4023337B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:28:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca) Received: from mr7.exu.ericsson.se (mr7att.ericy.com [138.85.92.15]) by imr2.ericy.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72ISq528346; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:28:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from noah.lmc.ericsson.se (noah.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.1.1]) by mr7.exu.ericsson.se (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72ISph18444; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:28:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se (lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.16.175]) by noah.lmc.ericsson.se (8.11.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id f72ISoA17514; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:28:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:28:49 -0400 Received: from lmc.ericsson.se (lmcpc100455.pc.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.23.150]) by LMC37.lmc.ericsson.se with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id QDYH3740; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:28:46 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" To: Richard Glidden Cc: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3B699BD7.8020205@lmc.ericsson.se> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 14:28:39 -0400 Organization: LMC, Ericsson Research Canada User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: moving to XFree86-4 References: <20010802140056.E57892-100000@charon.acheron.localnet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ooohhh... xf86cfg eh? != xf86config? both are installed with 4 or what? that's surely interesting though. :) A. Richard Glidden wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: > > >>Unfortunatly, from what I can tell, -configure just creates a config >>file based on your hw configuration, and does not ask basic stuff as >>"what resolution do you want". :) >> >>I really, really, really miss XF86Setup. Really. >> > > Am I missing something? What was so great about XF86Setup? > > I haven't had any problems configuring XFree86 4, using the included > tools. The "xf86cfg" program included with XFree86 4 seems to do the job > very well, and even uses the "XFree86 -configure" command as a starting > point, rather than guessing at 'safe' defaults like XF86Setup did. Plus, > it has support for new features of XFree86 4. > > - Richard > -- Antoine Beaupré Jambala TCM team Ericsson Canada inc. mailto:antoine.beaupre@ericsson.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message