From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 11:53:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCF2F37B419 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:53:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 69504 invoked by uid 100); 12 Mar 2002 19:53:12 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15502.23719.547625.175642@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:53:11 -0600 To: Jacques Beigbeder Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any philosophy to install XFree86? In-Reply-To: <20020312195010.A11599@trefle.ens.fr> References: <20020312195010.A11599@trefle.ens.fr> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jacques Beigbeder types: > May be it's a FAQ... Nope. > Is there any philosophy to install X11R6 on a FreeBSD 4.5? > There are 3 sources: > . 4.5-RELEASE/XF86336, old Xfree86 3.3.6; > . XFree86*4.1.0*.tgz ( from packages-4.5-release/x11 ); > . the distribution from ftp.xfree86.org (now 4.1.2). > > Is there any preferred order and choice to get a good installation, > relatively to all packages and dependencies? I'd install either the old one or the package, depending on which supported your video card. If the answer is that both support it, then install the old one if you're short memory, otherwise the new one. If you install XFree86 4.whatever, set XFREE86_VERSION=4 in /etc/make.conf before installing any other X ports. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message