Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 18:22:01 +1000 (E. Australia Standard Time) From: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au, arjan@jak.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X install always hangs on my Intel 815 celeron Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0105311818380.1416-100000@oracle>
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> > Hi all, > > Problems as usual! with installing X > > I have never been successful in installing it on 4.2 > > release. > I've typically found X a worry, however I think its mostly because of the extremely flaky auto-detect routine for video devices. I tried a test install last week with XFree 3.x, bog standard S3 Virge 325, & blackbox instead of those KDE / Gnome monstrosities ..... voila !!!!! I still can't see a lot of point in X on a server though ..... unlike Solaris / SCO virtually all the config is command line so all X does for me is waste a bit of space & open a potential security hole or three. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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