Hi all, I have a P-II running NetBSD 1.5, with an ATI 264GT-IIc video card. I just downloaded and installed 4.2.0, which is replacing the X that came with my version of NetBSD, with was 3.3.-something. The next step I did was run Xf86cfg, which I've never used in previous installs of X. I was pleased that it guessed almost everything. I did a little tweaking, and then it wrote my XF86Config to /etc/X11/. (I dont know where it wrote the rest of my configuration files. This is new of course, 3.x wrote it to somewhere under /usr.) when I quit out of Xf86cfg my terminal acts very strange. There is no echo to the console, etc. I ended up resetting my PC! So I rebooted and then did an ./xinit. No dice. So I repeat the whole cycle, writing the XF86Config to the "old" location, somewhere in the neighborhood of /usr/X11/[...]/XF86Config. Same results. Same weirdness after I quit out of Xf86cfg. At this point I notice the little file called XF86Config.new in the working directory where I ran Xf86cfg. I quickly put 2 and 2 together, move it to /etc/X11/, and it works! All in all, I thing Xf86cfg is a relief after wrestling with the old xf86config program. As soon as I get the time and energy to tackle it, I am going to figure out how to make secure connections to the X server from my Windows client and also figure out how to get better resolution (I think X is using a lower resolution than my video card/monitor is capable of). I wonder why the terminal acted so funny after I quit out of the Xf86cfg program. Finally, IMHO, there are too many similarly named X applications/files. ie., Xf86cfg XF86Config xf86config etc. I'm not sure how else you could do it though. Thanks, Gurujiwan _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
