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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!dolphin.neosoft.com!nobody From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't get XFree86 up Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 16:51:01 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5g0gl5.ro.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> References: <337a6cd9.1610701@news.swbell.net> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.69 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40970 In article <337a6cd9.1610701@news.swbell.net>, bluesky1@swbell.net writes: > I just installed FreeBSD 2.1.7 (I think) and I am trying to get > XFree86 to work. I try to run the Setup program and it won't execute. > In fact it seems like many programs won't execute. Am I missing > something. Say I go into the X11 directory and want to run XFree86 for > the first time. What would I type? Documentation on this OS is good, > but by nature it covers to many configs. su (to root) /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup This *should* bring up the interactive configuration utility. If not, well...you got trouble in River City. -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads