From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 17:31:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E01B37B400 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:31:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3C328B77; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 20:31:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 20:31:12 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: mpd Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: XF86 4.2.0 "xf86cfg" command, one day at a time :( In-Reply-To: <20020403200100.A70658@rochester.rr.com> Message-ID: <20020403202433.C68910-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, mpd wrote: > > > > [1] Why is this logfile necessarily 690 lines?! and > > > Because 690 lines was necessary to convey the information. > > Very disconcerting. (Six hundred ninety times over.) > I disagree, a LOT. If dmesg knows so much -- which it undeniably does -- why is there no XFree86, or plain X binary command, that works "out-of-the-box?!" In some ways, FreeBSD is really lacking for a "Control Panel" type command that would "ping" your PnP monitor, videocard, mouse, audio, etc and so on and so forth. >:-( > > I downloaded a bunch of *.tgz files then ran the command `sh Xinstall.sh` originally. > Yes, those are binary packages. > > It would take me a century to figure out how to `make install` from scratch, but that might be favorable as I'd end up with one built on FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE *and* one that listened to /etc/make.conf where it says i686. :) > Have you tried the port? It works fine. How might I try the port? Is this a portupgrade -R thing or a pkg_add -r thing? Should I just go to www.xfree86.org and wallow in my pity? > > It really annoys me that the manpage for "xf86cfg" admits: > > "BUGS > > Probably." > > How mature and user-friendly. It may as well have lines following this saying: > > "EASE-OF-INSTALLATION-FOR-A-MODERATELY-INTELLIGENT-INSTALLER > > Superbly difficult. Find a grain of salt on a beach then check back here." > Frankly, I think this tool is garbage. Not one time has it ever configured X for me correctly (20+ attempts at different times.) I've always used xf86config, which works fine. I think they should make two tools, the capitalized one "XF86CFG" would run in a GUI and the "xf86cfg" one would run in a text-only menu similar to xf86config which I just ran and was failed once again miserably... > The sysmouse device should already exist. If it doesn't, MAKEDEV it. I have tried both editing the XF86Config.new file and `ln -s /dev/sysmouse /dev/mouse` but am failing on both accounts, seemingly? > > What are my chances at get this working TO- DAY- ??!!! :( > Trust me, it's not as hard as it looks from the outside. Don't try to eat it all at once. Take small bites. > mike I have taken small bites since Feb 9th or 16th, it's been so long I can't recall! Being X-less is really not fun, and having to go to the local library to graphically browse the web using WinBloze equally sux. > "MR NUTTY SAID EATING RICE VERMICELLI WILL MAKE YOUR GARDEN GROW!!!" > - Little Girl from "WHAT WILL MAKE YOUR GARDEN GROW" Who is this Little Girl anyway? :) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message