From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 5 20:40:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8461065672 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 20:40:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brian@brianwhalen.net) Received: from numail.brianwhalen.net (numail.brianwhalen.net [66.93.34.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA4E8FC26 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 20:40:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by numail.brianwhalen.net (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 964A42844C; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 13:40:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on numail.brianwhalen.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=3.0 tests=RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.2.5 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dsl093-034-235.snd1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.34.235]) by numail.brianwhalen.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74DAE28472 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 13:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AA2CCC6.2020608@brianwhalen.net> Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:40:38 -0700 From: "Brian W." User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <190448.97202.qm@web34407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <190448.97202.qm@web34407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: installing X in FreeBSD 7.2 RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:40:17 -0000 st ellis wrote: > i've been using freebsd for about 12 years. my latest working version is 6.2, which works aok. > this week i tried 7.2, but i cannot find the command to set up X. in 6.2, it was xorgcfg which worked beautifully. can anyone email me the correct command, or procedure? > thanks. > steve > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > There is a command called sysinstall, it has options to add packages, distributions etc, that is the easiest way to get it on an already installed release that doesn't have it. If you prefer kde, there are some other instructions here, http://freebsd.kde.org/. Brian