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From: scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Scott Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: installation of XFree86
Date: 11 Oct 1996 11:44:25 GMT
Organization: Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK
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In-reply-to: mcampbel@erols.com's message of Thu, 10 Oct 1996 05:00:03 GMT
In article <53hvq3$gif@boursy.news.erols.com> mcampbel@erols.com (Melinda Campbell and family (check the .sig)) writes:
> From: mcampbel@erols.com (Melinda Campbell and family (check the .sig))
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 05:00:03 GMT
> Organization: This house? Are you kidding?
>
> kzhang@watsci.uwaterloo.ca (K. Zhang) wrote:
>
> >Hi there,
> > I recently installed FreeBSD on my computer. It kind of worked.
> >But I have trouble to make my X windows work. I have a partition of WinNT
> >on my disk, my monitor is a cheap Daewoo, a trdent video card and a
> >logitech mouse. I tried to install it from packages, it didn't work. Then
> >I tried to compile it from ports collection, I got a long list of errors
> >scrolled over my monitor before I could see what went wrong. Can anyone
> >point out a solution to my problem? I am still in the process of getting
> >familiar with FreeBSD.
>
> What you need to do is run the XFree86 files through tar. Go to /usr
> and try
>
> tar -xzf <file>
>
> on each file, and things should work. Remember to do this as root!
>
The easiest way is to have X installed when you install everything
else. On the 'Distributions' menu of the install program you can
select X-User, or X-Developer, or make a custom setup with just the
components you need.
When you have all the files in place the 'xf86config' program is quite
useful for guiding you through the process of configuring the X server
for your particular hardware.
HTH,
Scott.
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