From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 5 23:27:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linus.highpoint.edu (linus.highpoint.edu [192.154.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FDF037B407 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 23:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from zhartley@localhost) by linus.highpoint.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f966QdE18599 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 02:26:39 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 02:26:39 -0400 From: Zach Hartley To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help required for configuring X windows Message-ID: <20011006022639.A18580@linus.highpoint.edu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011006054034.4074.qmail@web12801.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011006054034.4074.qmail@web12801.mail.yahoo.com>; from prohit99@yahoo.com on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:40:34PM -0700 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 There's a whole section on it in the handbook.... http://www.freebsd.org/handbook rtfm Zach Around Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:40:34PM -0700, Rohit Panda thus spake the following: > > hi, > > Iam trying to configure my machine (containing a intel 810 integrated chipset) for XFree86.As written in a site i recompiled the kernel with agpgart support and(after configuring using xf86config ) then changed the video section as told to (and the rest i used defaults) > > device "i810" > > BusID PCI:0:1:0 > > (Iam using Xfree86-4.1 on FreeBSD 4.3 release ) > > and started X with startx > > then two coloured command windows came up(one named login and another named xterm as the window titles ,and having the prompt).my mouse (PS/2 mouse ) also stopped working in X and apparently some menus were trying to come though it was not visible.And how do we have GNOME or KDE setup?? Whats Xwindows without them??can anybody helpme out > > thanx guys > > rohit > > > > --------------------------------- > Do You Yahoo!? > NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. Yahoo! by Phone. -- Zachary Todd Hartley "Attempted murder. Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?" --Sideshow Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message