Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.6: XFree86 problems.
To: David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de>
From: Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/19/2002 15:05:40
> > After installing NetBSD/i386 1.6 with XFree86 4.2 as the default X system,
> > I've come up a little stuck configuring X.
>
> I used XF86conf or so to configure X. I am not sure about the spelling
> but if you use tcsh you will quickly find it after pressing X and
> after that CTRL-D :-)

I don't use tcsh.  (^&

XFree86 -configure should do a good job.  Back when 4.0 was just out (and
NetBSD's pkgsrc didn't have any support for it yet, causing various
wrinkles with all of the libraries XFree86 had incorporated), I recall
that autoconfiguration "just worked"---except that they screwed up the
mouse interface.  (Easily fixed.)  Now (same monitor; different system
otherwise I think) XFree86's autocnfiguration completely drops the ball on
the monitor configuration.  That's disappointing, but still not too much
trouble to work around.


  ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu