FreeBSD6 Unleashed

Configuring X11 with the xorgconfig Script

During the initial setup of FreeBSD you performed in Chapter 2, “Installing FreeBSD,” you used the full-screen xorgcfg program to set up a basic hardware configuration for your X11 server. Because of the variety of video cards and displays in the world today, and because X11 configuration is in many ways more art than science, it’s entirely possible that xorgcfg alone was not able to get X11 set up properly for your computer. Perhaps you couldn’t get X11 to run at any higher resolution than 640×480, or perhaps you can’t do any better than 8-bit color (256 colors). Perhaps you couldn’t find an appropriate video driver in the xorgcfg database, and you had to guess. Or, perhaps, X11 won’t start at all, ...