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Old 25th June 2008
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Default Sudoers and Xorgconfig

hi everyone.
1) I installed sudo via pkg_add and I added the following line (using visudo)

"disappearedng ALL=(ALL) SETENV: ALL"
directly under
"root ALL=(ALL) SETENV: ALL"

and tried running
#sudo xorgconfig
but the computer reported that user NOT in sudoers ;

Why is that so?

2) Is there anything package that will automatically install the graphics driver for FreeBSD? I can't seem to find out what driver my graphics card is using and it seems a little bit difficult for me to access kde.
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I don't know what that SETENV bit you have is... What is 'disappearing'? Is that your group or your user? For groups, you must prepend it with a %;
Code:
 %wheel        ALL=(ALL)       ALL
For individual users,
Code:
weaseal    ALL=(ALL) ALL

As to your xorg driver, you will need to know which is most appropriate for your card. If you want to see what driver it is using now, edit xorg.conf and look for 'Section "Device"'. Here's mine:
Code:
Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UsePIO"                    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
        #Option     "NoSLI"                     # [<bool>]
        #Option     "TexturedVideo"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRI"                       # [<bool>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "tdfx"
        VendorName  "3Dfx Interactive, Inc."
        BoardName   "Voodoo 3"
        BusID       "PCI:0:5:0"
EndSection
The part that says Driver "tdfx" is the relevant information. You *may* be able to detect automatically the proper driver via
Code:
X -configure
but if you need an outside driver like ATI's catalyst or nvidia's 3d driver, you will have to install them via ports.
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I have looked up a few sites and there has been problems with X associated with my graphics card.

Is there a way that I can update X? if so, can you please paste the command here so that I could pkg_add it?

btw disappearedng is my username. the SETENV:ALL was originially there for root.
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# Xorg -configure
is what most people use. Unless you require one of the proprietary binary drivers, in which case you know what one you want, and will install it from ports, and follow the displayed and included documentation to know how to configure it.
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Which card are you using?

Which version of X are you currently running?
Code:
$ pkg_info | grep xorg
...
xorg-libraries-7.3_2 X.org libraries meta-port
xorg-server-1.4.2,1 X.Org X server and related programs
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