Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 09:54:02 -0700 From: Ed Hall <edhall@screech.weirdnoise.com> To: "stan deese" <eseed1st@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install & xwindows Message-ID: <200009091654.JAA12049@screech.weirdnoise.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Sep 2000 09:07:51 EDT." <F19K5cB2pLW6YQTsg6500000469@hotmail.com>
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You're going to have to be more specific about your hardware. What graphics card do you have? What steps have you performed in configuring the X window system? Make and model for your other hardware will help us in suggesting solutions for your other problems as well. Unlike the old days, where everything came from DEC and all was right with the world, there are literally thousands of hardware vendors, each with one goal: make it work (or at least appear to work) with MS Windows. Drivers and other software for MS Windows usually ship with the hardware, allowing the manufacturer to pretty much do things any old way and still meet this criterion. Through pluck and cunning, we've managed to get a lot of this vast and varied mountain of hardware working with FreeBSD, sometimes better than the vendor ever intended for MS Windows. However, though a good deal of the detection and configuration of that hardware is done by FreeBSD itself, there are still many things that can or must be configured manually. Your problems aren't Unix or a 52-year-old brain (at 46 my brain handles Unix just fine, and I expect it to do just as well in six years). It's getting Unix to fit on top of hardware that often was designed in ignorance of Unix's very existence. Make a list of each board and peripheral, with model and vendor, and take a fresh look at the docs and installation process. If things still don't go right, share the gory details with us and we'll try to help. -Ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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