From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 2 10:43:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from imr2.ericy.com (imr2.ericy.com [12.34.240.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 601F737B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:43:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca) Received: from mr7.exu.ericsson.se (mr7att.ericy.com [138.85.92.15]) by imr2.ericy.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72HZK526065; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:35:23 -0500 (CDT) Received: from noah.lmc.ericsson.se (noah.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.1.1]) by mr7.exu.ericsson.se (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72HZJh16790; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:35:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se (lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.16.175]) by noah.lmc.ericsson.se (8.11.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id f72HZIA14233; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:35:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:35:17 -0400 Received: from lmc.ericsson.se (lmcpc100455.pc.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.23.150]) by LMC37.lmc.ericsson.se with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id QDYH3641; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:35:11 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" Cc: j mckitrick , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3B698F49.7050903@lmc.ericsson.se> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:35:05 -0400 Organization: LMC, Ericsson Research Canada User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: moving to XFree86-4 References: <3B695AEE.7010904@lmc.ericsson.se> <200108021639.f72Gdmm04076@ptavv.es.net> <20010802180220.A12676@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <014601c11b77$677789b0$3028680a@tgt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Unfortunatly, from what I can tell, -configure just creates a config file based on your hw configuration, and does not ask basic stuff as "what resolution do you want". :) I had a big pain configuring my machine to run on 800x600 instead of 640x480. I had to dig out my old mode lines from my old config to make it work. :( Ouch. I really, really, really miss XF86Setup. Really. A. Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > There is a very good one. > > XFree86 -configure > > Must be run as root and it will create an XF86Config.new file in the current > directory. It is an excellent starting script and I haven't seen it fail > yet. > > Tom Veldhouse > veldy@veldy.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "j mckitrick" > To: "Kevin Oberman" > Cc: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" ; > > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 12:02 PM > Subject: Re: moving to XFree86-4 > > > >>| I think it's about time to drop 3.3.6 as the "standard" X server and >>| go with 4.1. (I do miss XF86setup, though!) >> >>If this were done, there would need to be some kind of similar >>'hand-holding' utility to help setting up the config files. >> >> >> >>jm >>-- >>"Investigators have discovered the cause of the TWA 800 explosion >>was a frayed wire. The wire became frayed when it was struck >>by a missile." >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message >> >> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Antoine Beaupré Jambala TCM team Ericsson Canada inc. mailto:antoine.beaupre@ericsson.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message