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Date:      Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:11:53 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se>
Cc:        freeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: XFree86
Message-ID:  <20020626160728.O17435-100000@small.pukruppa.de>
In-Reply-To: <000201c21cf9$3e3e7430$34056dd4@chappe2>

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On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Thomas Widlundh wrote:

> Hi,
> This might be a little off topic on this list, but...
> Is the XF86Config file interchangeable between different types of
> Unix/Linux OS's?
> I have FreeBSD 4.5 with  XFree86 3.3.6 and startx works as inspected.
> I have Slackware 8.0 on the second HDD with exactly the same version
> of
> XFree86 3.3.6, but this will not start at all. And this on the very
> same machine.
> Can I just copy the BSD XF86Config file into Slackware? The file is
> plain text and
> XFree86 is not an OS, it's a tool for many Unix type OS's. Am I
> thinking in the
> wrong direction here?
> As I wrote above, this is a BSD list, but I hope someone have some
> experiences to share.
Just try it!
Save your working file with something like
# mv XF86Config XF86Config.old
copy your new file to the appropriate place and
# startx
It will work or not.
In case something looks strange hit
<ctrl> + <alt> + <backspace>
to kill the X server

Good luck!

Uli.

> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
>
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