Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:14:45 -0700 From: James Satterfield <jsatterfield@intertrust.com> To: "'Richard Glidden'" <rglidden@zaphod.wox.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: moving to XFree86-4 Message-ID: <720AE932C238D411B4D100C04F10DA6B0222BA72@exchange.epr.com>
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I always install FreeBSD without X and make XFree86-4 from ports. xf86cfg cores. I just hack the output of XFree86 -configure tho, so it's no big deal. James. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Glidden [mailto:rglidden@zaphod.wox.org] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:14 PM To: James Satterfield Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: moving to XFree86-4 Come to think of it, I did have xf86cfg dump core on me once, when I already had XFree86 3.3.6 installed and then installed the XFree86 4.1 port without removing 3.3.6 first. I haven't tried 4.1 on other machines. However, I have run the XFree86 4.0 port's xf86cfg without problems on 3 other machines which did not have 3.3.6 installed. These were machines running FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE with nVidia and ATI video cards (GeForce, and Mach64) Perhaps there is some piece of an old configuration sitting around that is confusing xf86cfg? Or maybe there is something wrong with the 4.1 port (I haven't tried it enough to be sure) - Richard On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, James Satterfield wrote: > I've had xf86cfg core on every machine I've tried it on. Perhaps I'm missing > something? > > James. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Glidden [mailto:rglidden@zaphod.wox.org] > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 11:10 AM > To: Antoine Beaupre (LMC) > Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: moving to XFree86-4 > > > > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: > > > 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 really, really, really miss XF86Setup. Really. > > Am I missing something? What was so great about XF86Setup? > > I haven't had any problems configuring XFree86 4, using the included > tools. The "xf86cfg" program included with XFree86 4 seems to do the job > very well, and even uses the "XFree86 -configure" command as a starting > point, rather than guessing at 'safe' defaults like XF86Setup did. Plus, > it has support for new features of XFree86 4. > > - Richard > > > 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
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