FreeBSD 5.3 RC1 X Config

Hugh Ekeberg ekeberg at bigpond.net.au
Sat Oct 23 21:29:39 PDT 2004


I found the same thing with this release. I never found the configuration 
utilities in other versions of BSD's "sysinstall" to work for me anyway.

In my opinion it is much better to follow the instructions in the release of 
the handbook which comes with FreeBSD-5.3 and set up X by hand.


On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:06, David Findlay wrote:
> I am a first time user of FreeBSD. I burned copies of the 5.3 RC1
> install disks 1 and 2.
> I booted from the 1st disk and went through the standard install,
> selecting All packages.
> The handbook says there is a configuration option for the X server but
> it never gets to this for me, nor can I find it from the sysinstall
> menu anywhere. Thinking I'd done something wrong I ran the install
> again and the same thing happened. In each case the standard install
> does be base copies then lets you pick yuor distribution, and I pick
> all,then it ask for some config like the mouse, ttys, timezone, users,
> root password. Finally it asks if I'd like to go back the config menu
> to make some final changes. Once I say yes I am back in the
> configuration menu and there's no way out that doesn't just exit
> sysinstall, which may be where it would go if I'd said no.
>
> So I have a bootable FreeBSD system with X and KDE packages installed
> but not configured. Am I supposed to go run xorgconfig by hand from a
> regular shell afterwards? This asks for monitor vsync etc like the old
> linux ones did; the newer ones let you pick your monitor by name - I
> was hoping the X configuration I can't find in sysinstall would do
> this too.
>
> Also, if I do the xorgconfig, how do I configure it to run KDE on top of X?
>
> Any tips greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Dave
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