From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 13 15:59:16 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 CF97237B400; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:59:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4695343E4A; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:59:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA11647; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:59:07 -0700 Message-ID: <3D598F3A.7010301@owt.com> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:59:06 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Flanagan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting X windows to work with XFree86 4 References: <021f01c2431c$659ba680$847ba8c0@monkey> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Mike Flanagan wrote: > I am unable to setup x windows with Xfree86 4. Using > > previous versions I could use XF86Setup and it would auto > > probe my video card "S3Virge" and work perfectly. It appears > > that XF86Setup is no longer an option so I tried using xf86cfg. > > When I try using xf86cfg it launches an xsession perfectly > > but I do not see an option to save the settings. Then I exit > > out of xf86cfg and do a startx and get a fatal server error > > no screens found. It sounds like the xserver isnt setup but > > I do not see an option to config anything when xf86cfg is launched. > > Is there a way to save the settings once xf86cfg launches ? > > It sounds like you didn't remove /etc/XF86Config or at least rename it to o.XF86Config. I found that 4.2 expects it in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message