Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:03:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Beitzel <sbeitzel@envolved.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Getting X11 to work Message-ID: <200009150103.e8F13VF14260@sf-gw.envolved.com>
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I have installed FreeBSD several times, now, on different machines, but I have never managed to get X11 working successfully. Since there's a big section of the ports tree that is devoted to X11 and since I've seen messages to -questions and to -stable regarding behaviors of X11 apps, I assume that *someone* has accomplished what I have not. Is there a HOWTO or something that I could look at? For example, here's a hardware system that I've set up and installed FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE on: ABIT KA-7 motherboard with an Athlon 750 128MB RAM Netgear 10/100 PCI Ethernet card Aureal Vortex 2 PCI sound card Diamond Speedstar A90 AGP (16MB) video card Western Digital Caviar 13GB hard drive LITE-ON 48x CD-ROM Mitsubishi 1.44 floppy drive 104-key keyboard from CompUSA (yeah, it has the silly Windows keys) Logitech wheelmouse (PS/2 connector) Now, when I ran /stand/sysinstall and tried to configure X11, I was able to get into the configuration tool (XF86Config?) but there was no entry for this particular video card. I guessed, but I must have guessed incorrectly since when the configurator tried to start the X11 server with the configuration I'd built, Nothing Happened. Trying to run the configuration again didn't work at all -- the application just hung. I'd really appreciate any help people might offer me. Thanks, Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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