While I don't run an X server on my server machine (just text mode stuff there), I will be getting a new machine in the near future, and, in the trickle down theory of machines, I think I'll have a slower (800mhz!) machine to play around with FreeBSD 5, and on that I will install X. I've done it a few times, on various Unixen, and it is a process fraught with peril. This is especially true if you are using some cutting edge video card. Trailing edge ones are your best bet.
Anyway, here's an article that supplements the FreeBSD manual entry: The X Window System:
ONLamp.com: Building an X Server and a Window Manager [Jun. 21, 2000]
A little known fact - I was a developer on the original X Window system, way back in the days of MIT's Project Athena, where it all began. Actually, I wasn't an official developer, but I was one of the very first users of X Window System, as I worked as a teacher liason with Project Athena, and one of its centerpieces was X. I wrote a bridge game (unimaginatively called 'xbridge') that for years was on the X distribution tape. That was a looong time ago.....
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