From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 4 17:41:27 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B15729A9 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2015 17:41:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omr-m4.mx.aol.com (omr-m4.mx.aol.com [64.12.226.25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 710362DA1 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2015 17:41:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mtaomg-aac02.mx.aol.com (mtaomg-aac02.mx.aol.com [172.27.2.36]) by omr-m4.mx.aol.com (Outbound Mail Relay) with ESMTP id 50C3A3800007E for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2015 12:41:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from core-mmc004a.r1000.mail.aol.com (core-mmc004.r1000.mail.aol.com [172.29.100.77]) by mtaomg-aac02.mx.aol.com (OMAG/Core Interface) with ESMTP id AD94D38000081 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2015 12:41:25 -0500 (EST) References: <8D1F641A1D2B4CB-15D0-A6C2@webmail-vm170.sysops.aol.com> <20150104153549.70c269ae.freebsd@edvax.de> <8D1F6518B6F7572-15D0-ABA6@webmail-vm170.sysops.aol.com> <20150104180240.6c6cf30b.freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: emulate a Xorg configuration of GNU/Linux (Fedora 21) on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Xavier Freebsd Questio X-MB-Message-Type: User Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: AOL Webmail STANDARD Received: from 193.152.253.6 by webmail-vm170.sysops.aol.com (64.12.250.164) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Sun, 04 Jan 2015 12:41:25 -0500 Message-Id: <8D1F65CCC028E2D-15D0-B0BC@webmail-vm170.sysops.aol.com> X-Originating-IP: [193.152.253.6] Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 12:41:25 -0500 x-aol-global-disposition: G DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mx.aim.com; s=20140625; t=1420393286; 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