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badpenguin
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:06 am    Post subject: xorg problems, How do I even run it? Reply with quote

I have xorg installed, and now I want to configure it, adn then run it. I read that u configure it with "xorgconfig", or "xorgconfigure", but neather work. neather does "startx". What am I doing wrong? /etc/X11/ has a buch of x stuff, what do i do?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Read the Gentoo Desktop Documention.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok, thankyou very much
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 5:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you have already installed Xfree in the past, and set it up, you should be able to copy your /etc/X11/XF86Config to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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