From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 12 00:06:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4761106564A for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:06:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from henry.olyer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f206.google.com (mail-bw0-f206.google.com [209.85.218.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70FAC8FC40 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:06:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz2 with SMTP id 2so2793275bwz.43 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:06:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=HuqDBoUsG3RJfWCmY2d7BEVWNwatrEK308aaAAmO8ac=; b=D58MSDuAley2hLgWSnR3k/qmtU7TdthtwhpBmKYkr/5Ej5bZ05krpgarMQPdIS3eec ktvBjsGSpkUlrqdkZ83LKDuy/n/d/bve/zjcO9sOLkd9j1fwrqYXES68i7w2kmeM8Wt3 fBCG1GEVCsY62TzuJFtKygCsYCtP1FgfxBY5g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=Bgb12voQN3R2Pw7Y0fSXAqj5Pgl6DmafsSa27KA9lBTxvKXKWaWJnAaLrKPvIKcExX vZ9fFKxpfGD8Ny8xLfCp5/mUMEKPGQQmDPVfjyA2Na50rVNqpChdavdHWI/g/xrAorlx YwleiNu+5nE/vHKCZIc/lxPudq30A9rkweXZI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.113.3 with SMTP id y3mr1379327fap.71.1250034242489; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:44:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:44:02 -0400 Message-ID: <1d7089c40908111644n2b75e25bh47b30bfc35fdd839@mail.gmail.com> From: Henry Olyer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: making FBSD 7.2 X work on a CQ-60 laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:06:03 -0000 I have been having a lot of trouble getting X running on my HP/Compaq laptop. A lot of trouble. For years I used to use xf86cfg and/or xf86config, but now, with FreeBSD 7.2 I can't find them. (Don't tell me that such useful tools were -- ugh -- depreciated. No, please no.) And worse, the keyboard has lot's of really nice key's on it, to dim the screen and such like that. Which right now 7.2 ignores. It's a CQ-60, a Walmart special and I purchased it because it had 3GB of RAM with a big screen (about 15.5", I think.) And I went down to my local computer store and purchased a 500GB SATA drive for $100. So for $400 I think I got a good deal. (The machine is on sale now at WM stores for less than $300. With tax it was $312.) Now though I have to make it work with FreeBSD 7.2. with X. I need help. Does anyone have one running FBSD 7.2 already?