Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:03:43 -0500 From: Gordon devel <user0@tkgeomap.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A couple of questions about 7.0-RELEASE and X11 Message-ID: <20080315180343.GA25380@localhost.ok.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <47dbd0f9.07025a0a.3ace.00b7@mx.google.com> References: <47dbd0f9.07025a0a.3ace.00b7@mx.google.com>
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The configure program is now /usr/local/bin/xorgconfig . You might also want to try 'X -configure' , which does some hardware probing and puts a best guess configure file in /root/xorg.conf.new . The X documentation can still be a bit sketchy. Above advice came from books. Cheers, Gordon On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:36:36PM +1000, Robert Chalmers wrote: > I have just installed the new 7.0-RELEASE shown on the www.freebsd.org home > page ( still confused as to whether this is CURRENT or STABLE ) and trying > to get X working. > > It doesn't appear to have xorgcfg in it anywhere? Has this handy program > been abandoned? > > I'm running it on an old SAMTRON 5Ei monitor of unknown HorizontalSync and > VerticalSync patterns, and the card type is reported as S3. > > There are a couple of ways to configure the xorg.conf file available - but > none seem to be producing any useable results. > > The handbook is clear and concise - but none of it works. > > > > I did a clean install of 7.0 and put X on at the time. But even the manual > talks about xorgcfg - but its no where to be found? Should it be there? Or > has it been discontinued?
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