hey folks.

I've been experimenting with freeBSD. It installed in much the same fashion as linux, however I had some trouble getting x to work.

(it's an old PC, a Dell GXPro Pentium Pro 200 with only 32 megs of some sort of ram I can't seem to find any more of. )

anyhow it's got an old S3 video card in it, and it took some time and tweaking to get x to run. But I did it.

Now I have an issue. During the XF86Config , I opted for a virtual desktop. Well, I hate it. :-) I find it annoyning, and I want to get rid of it, but I can't quite figure out how. I don't seem to be able to run the XF86Config again, though I don't know why. I tried editing the file to remove the references to the virtual desktop, but it had absolutely no effect.

Any help will be appreciated. This one isn't a critical system, but I'd really like to familiarize with freeBSD and I want to use it darnit....


Jonathan

This might get more responses or at least would be more at home in the BSD forums.

click on the bsd moderator's link. otherwise someone may squall about dupe threads, here.
luck -O.

Sorry, I figured it was probably a noob question.... is there a way to move the post? Otherwise I'll have to duplicate it

Sent request to a moderator

click the moderator link on bsd forum, or click this one here and just say HELP!!!

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Not quite sure what is meant by "virtual desktop" because that's basically what X windows does. If youw ant to rerun the config program have you tried 'xf86config'? It's text based and I find it works quickly and easily. Once I have all the info about a machine I can get X up within 5 minutes with that program. GL.