From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 26 13:37:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FCBB1065698 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:37:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (ns0.blackend.org [82.227.222.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D282B8FC08 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id o7QDbVq1074077; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:37:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7QDbV92001631; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:37:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o7QDbPwx001630; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:37:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:37:25 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Fred Boatwright Message-ID: <20100826133725.GB1491@gothic.blackend.org> References: <4C700925.715E10B8@blakemfg.com> <4C704C7B.134759E5@blakemfg.com> <4C707AA6.8F60FE62@blakemfg.com> <4C708E6D.88FF2B9F@blakemfg.com> <20100822075157.GA1485@gothic.blackend.org> <4C71318C.2AA5F140@blakemfg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C71318C.2AA5F140@blakemfg.com> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: ports@eitanadler.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:37:38 -0000 On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 07:17:48AM -0700, Fred Boatwright wrote: > > > > For x11/xorg-minimal installation you issued the command: > > > > "make install" or "make install VIDEO_DRIVER=your_video_driver" ? > > > > Without the mention of the driver it installs the vesa driver only. > > This is sub-optimal, an options screen with all existing drivers should > > be proposed. > > > > -- > > Marc > > I used make install as I had no way of knowing that additional drivers > could be selected. Perhaps that should be an option to the sysinstall > program when FBSD is initially being installed. > Yes, people can't guess what are the names of the drivers, it's in my opinion a problem for this port. I Cced the maintainer. -- Marc