From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 13:46:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30FFC37B417 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:46:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD3EBD30; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:46:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04381; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:46:35 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g34LktK24167; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:46:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Peter Leftwich Cc: mpd , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: XF86 4.2.0 "xf86cfg" command, one day at a time :( References: <20020403202433.C68910-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 04 Apr 2002 13:46:55 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020403202433.C68910-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Message-ID: Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Peter Leftwich writes: > If dmesg knows so much -- which it undeniably does -- why is there no > XFree86, or plain X binary command, that works "out-of-the-box?!" In some > ways, FreeBSD is really lacking for a "Control Panel" type command that > would "ping" your PnP monitor, videocard, mouse, audio, etc and so on and > so forth. >:-( That's what "XFree86 -configure" does (excepting audio and so on). How well it does it, I don't know. See the XFree86(1) manual. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message