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Date:      Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:51:57 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To:        Fred Boatwright <fred@blakemfg.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xorg Problems
Message-ID:  <20100822075157.GA1485@gothic.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C708E6D.88FF2B9F@blakemfg.com>
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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



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