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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: mcampbel@erols.com (Melinda Campbell and family (check the .sig)) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: installation of XFree86 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 05:00:03 GMT Organization: This house? Are you kidding? Lines: 25 Message-ID: <53hvq3$gif@boursy.news.erols.com> References: <Dyyo8D.127@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: man-as3s05.erols.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 kzhang@watsci.uwaterloo.ca (K. Zhang) wrote: >Hi there, > I recently installed FreeBSD on my computer. It kind of worked. >But I have trouble to make my X windows work. I have a partition of WinNT >on my disk, my monitor is a cheap Daewoo, a trdent video card and a >logitech mouse. I tried to install it from packages, it didn't work. Then >I tried to compile it from ports collection, I got a long list of errors >scrolled over my monitor before I could see what went wrong. Can anyone >point out a solution to my problem? I am still in the process of getting >familiar with FreeBSD. What you need to do is run the XFree86 files through tar. Go to /usr and try tar -xzf <file> on each file, and things should work. Remember to do this as root! Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USa Melinda's my mom--I'm home this semester! >Keqing