From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 16:36:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E9037B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76F6943E4A for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:36:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jolok@myrealbox.com) Received: from inspectorbox jolok@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [130.94.160.46] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.12 $ on Novell NetWare; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 17:35:50 -0600 Message-ID: <014201c26a6c$2d4a6e20$7404e9c6@inspectorbox> From: "Joshua Lokken" To: "Brian Henning" , "Kevin Oberman" Cc: References: <20021001203112.B394A5D09@ptavv.es.net> Subject: Re: xfree Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:33:56 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Oberman" To: "Brian Henning" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 1:31 PM Subject: Re: xfree > > From: "Brian Henning" > > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:15:51 -0500 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Hello- > > i just installed XFree86-4.2 package and i am have problems finding the file > > XF86Setup script that does the graphic configuration of the mouse keyboard > > video card and monitor. can someone tell me where i can find it? or has the > > script changed to something else? > > thanks for the help, > > You should be installing XFree86-4.2.1. It has several security fixes. > > V4 of XFree86 no longer uses the XF86Setup program to generate the > configuration. The preferred way to generate simple configurations is > run the server with the -configure option. See 'man XFree86' for more > details. Then read 'man XF86Config' for documentation on the > configuration file details. > > The file generated will be /etc/X11/XF86Config and may be edited for > more complex configurations such as multiple screens and non-default > color depths and resolutions. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 xf86config works really well for me. Joshua To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message