Trouble with XFree86 Configuration

Eric Kjeldergaard kjelderg at gmail.com
Fri May 6 09:09:53 PDT 2005


2005/5/6, Naomi Fernandez <naomi.fernandez at sympatico.ca>:
> "Hi!
> 
> I'm having a devil of a time trying to configure XFree86 Server and Desktop
> in FreeBSD 5.3.
> 
> I was running FreeBSD 4.9 just fine complete with Gnome2. Yesterday, I
> installed (from scratch) FreeBSD 5.3 on the same machine. The installation
> went fine and the machine booted perfectly. When I "sysinstall" to do a
> "Post-Installation Configuration", I don't get the option to "Configure the
> XFree86 Server" or Desktop. So I never get the chance to configure my
> monitor or video card or choose Gnome2 as my GUI.
> 
> When I "startx" as root, I get this really clunky lo-res screen with three
> windows on it. When I exit that and go back to the prompt, I get a message
> saying "fbdev does not exist".
> 
> I've reinstalled about half a dozen times and it's always the same. Can you
> please advise me of why I can't get to the point of configuring my monitor
> and card and then select Gnome2 as my GUI?   I selected "X-user" when I did
> the install. As I mentioned above, all worked perfectly under FreeBSD 4.9.
> If there is any another information that I can provide, please let me know.

No need to reinstall.  Try reading the fine documentation at
freebsd.org/handbook or more specific to this problem,
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html .

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