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Date:      Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:17:48 -0700
From:      Fred Boatwright <fred@blakemfg.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xorg Problems
Message-ID:  <4C71318C.2AA5F140@blakemfg.com>
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Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 07:41:49PM -0700, Fred Boatwright wrote:
> > Warren Block wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Warren Block wrote:
> > >
> > > > Log file is at http://wonkity.com/~wblock/tmp/Xorg.0.log
> > >
> > > First notes:
> > >
> > > You're running the old version of X, 1.6.1.
> > >
> > > Something odd is going on with some of the fonts.
> >
> > I installed ports/x11/xorg-minimal as the full Monty appeared to be a
> > huge amount of software that will never get used.  I don't want all the
> > stuff for gnome and kde as I will never use them.
> >
> > It appeared to me that the fonts could be straightened out when
> > everything else is working.  I think the Handbook has a section on
> > adding fonts.
> >
> > While looking for the xorg-minimal that I installed I found a bunch of
> > nVidea drivers in the same directory.  Do you think I should install
> > them now or wait.
> >
> 
> 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.

Best regards,
Fred



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