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Feigning erudition, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote:
% FreeBSD 4.7 Release
%
% I have tried to configure xFree86 several times, both via the GUI
% configurator and the script configrator, but unsuccessfully.
% Paradoxically, using the GUI configurator, X launches, but I am unable
% to set any of the video and screen properties. Even accepting all of
% the defaults, upon exiting the configurator it results in an error. I
% was running xFree 3.x on the same machine with an earlier version
% without any problems.
Need more specific information than "it results in an error."
% Configuration of system:
%
% Pentium Pro w/256Mb RAM, 18Gb SCSI drive, S3 Virge video adapter,
% ViewSonic monitor, bus mouse.
%
% Once again, while using the GUI configuration, X is loading, but upon
% exiting it is resulting in an error. I have tried everything I can
% think of (which is not much since I am not an x Guru obviously) but to
% no avail.
"XFree86 -configure" (as root) *should* give you a basic, working
configuration, leaving the config file in root's home (/root, I presume)
as XF86Config.new.
"XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new" (as root) should start X.
If it works, you've got a config file that works. If it doesn't work,
the log file should indicate the problems you're having.
Kurt
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