On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Henry Olyer <henry.ol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box.  It has a built-in video card,
> this isn't a top of the line superfast machine.
>
> But it is important for me to press it into service.
>
> I tried using a couple of Option lines in xorg.conf, but no luck.
>
> so now my questions...
>
> Will FBSD 7.3 make use of xf86cfg or some such program.  I ask because the X
> --configure command has never worked for me;  Not on any of five different
> machines I've put FBSD on.
>
> I'm not trying to do a sophisticated install either -- and though I've
> decided against running OpenBSD, the default install put's up X
> perfectly...  (Why??)
>
> wish I knew more...
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add this line to your rc.conf
hald_enable="YES"
and restart your machine
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