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Date:      Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:42:28 -0400
From:      Alec Berryman <alec@thened.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3 RC1 X Config
Message-ID:  <20041024034228.GB1992@thened.net>
In-Reply-To: <eb4ec598041023203639e11b15@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <eb4ec598041023203639e11b15@mail.gmail.com>

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begin  quotation of David Findlay on 2004-10-23 23:36:34 -0400:

> So I have a bootable FreeBSD system with X and KDE packages installed
> but not configured. Am I supposed to go run xorgconfig by hand from a
> regular shell afterwards? This asks for monitor vsync etc like the old
> linux ones did; the newer ones let you pick your monitor by name - I
> was hoping the X configuration I can't find in sysinstall would do
> this too.

I'd give 'Xorg -configure' a shot (from console as root).  Xorg's
autoconfiguration has worked much better for me than XFree86's.  See
the Handbook [1] for more information.

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

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