This section describes the different desktop environments available for X on FreeBSD. A “desktop environment” can mean anything ranging from a simple window manager to a complete suite of desktop applications, such as KDE or GNOME.

* Christopher Beale - Gecko reported that by default X doesn't work * Will reported that to get X working you should use VESA and configure X while in text mode * "J0ey" submitted the following XFree86 configuration file:

No, the check is fine, and it doesn't matter wether you run from within X or even if X is running. In fact, you don't even have to have X at all to configure and compile. What you do need is to have the various X libraries and include files.

Before configuration of X11 the following information about the target system is needed: * Monitor specifications * Video Adapter chipset * Video Adapter memory

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