<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >The Linux XFree86 HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="x38.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="ARTICLE" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2" >The Linux XFree86 HOWTO</A ></H1 ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Eric Steven Raymond</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><SPAN CLASS="ORGNAME" ><A HREF="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/" TARGET="_top" > Thyrsus Enterprises</A ><BR></SPAN ><DIV CLASS="ADDRESS" ><P CLASS="ADDRESS" > esr@thyrsus.com<br> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><P CLASS="COPYRIGHT" ><A HREF="ln17.html" >Copyright</A > © 2000 by Eric S. Raymond</P ><P CLASS="PUBDATE" >$Date: 2001/09/09 08:29:29 $<BR></P ><DIV CLASS="REVHISTORY" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 7.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2001-09-09</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >XFree86 site has changed directory structure.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 7.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2001-08-09</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Configuration has changed, and is now much simpler.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 7.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2000-08-21</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >First DocBook version.</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN36" ></A ><P ></P ><P >This document describes how to obtain, install, and configure version 4.1.0 of the XFree86 version of the X Window System (X11R6) for Linux systems. It is a step-by-step guide to configuring XFree86 on your system.</P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="x38.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="x38.html#AEN46" >Other sources of information</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="x38.html#AEN51" >New versions of this document</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="x38.html#AEN60" >Feedback and Corrections</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="x68.html" >Hardware requirements</A ></DT ><DT >3. <A HREF="x81.html" >Installing XFree86</A ></DT ><DT >4. <A HREF="x111.html" >Configuring XFree86</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >4.1. <A HREF="x111.html#AEN113" >Normal Configuration</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >5. <A HREF="x121.html" >Running XFree86</A ></DT ><DT >6. <A HREF="x163.html" >Translations</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x38.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >