From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Tue Nov 24 01:15:47 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A52A35B88 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 01:15:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-x22b.google.com (mail-ob0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DE3611148 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 01:15:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: by obbnk6 with SMTP id nk6so1767599obb.2 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:15:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=K38M3YNY31wWi4DuJdZioTnbZqnyRu/duK0HMylQp8E=; b=DMTjTneMZ1yXoopsKpBuNf6OIimuavbcOpQtFDkxXcY0i9ZFyO/r3H+WPOuUxmysPZ yK/ZeujmP9qRAmcnteNIbccYdtiTFEUk5Pmyx8Mb+jb7hhddwkB9KBuY2TxpRIi/b4yN A7JmWzYKRswhszMhk8ayxSXE2AGxNN5aPSD/tWOiCRRSXBRZ5HQ5ymmdrW6YdxDoUsHA yezioHpkBq4B+GGofHNzAgSDE391lMlX2frxHuNUBfFzc9qIZ1sjmhjsNeqUmYFKgvJ3 A2Ue3IC0GzmRsql00z5W0jJJG/WhRdzSMkWBRIQFi2lEZKGv90OJmTYlnBj7iucKqN9A 2QNg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.116.200 with SMTP id jy8mr19397885obb.35.1448327746232; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:15:46 -0800 (PST) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.202.98.131 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:15:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <56539537.30205@yahoo.com> References: <56539537.30205@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:15:46 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: KgX3wAYNqD_iLRWqFiXbI0EJYU0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: now here's a weird request, only about six years late From: Kevin Oberman To: Jules Gilbert Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 01:15:47 -0000 On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Jules Gilbert via freebsd-x11 < freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi guys! > > Sorry to be so behind the times, but I have a Presario CQ60 (a COMPAQ > laptop,) and need instructions to configure X. > > I'm running FreeBSD v7.2, with library packages from 7.4. > > I did put up 10.2, and that came up fine with X, except I'm a C developer > and nothing I have seems to be compatible with the clang or the gcc48 C > compilers. Sigh. > > So for now I am stuck in v7.2 and I would very much like to run X. > > I've enabled hald and dbus, and know I have to do something with the > mouse, as in AllowEmptyInput but I have tried various combinations and am > stuck. > > Also I get a message about fbdev not loading. Really, I am not an X person You really don't supply much information about the problem, so answering is hard. At a minimum, please tell us what graphics card the system has and tell us what won't work.Logs (such as Xorg.0.log) might help, too. The fbdev message is legitimate, but of no significance on a standard X setup. AllowEmptyInput is a very bad idea. See http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html for a good description of why and what should be done instead. FreeBSD 7 passed end of life a very long time ago and getting any reasonably modern X to work on it will not be trivial. You say that clang and gcc4.8 won;t work for you. The ancient gcc on 7.2 lacks compliance with modern C standards and is full of bugs, while clang and gcc48 and be run with options to build with older C syntax. I'm not sure that K&R is still supported, but I suspect that at least gcc does and newer C standards are supported. See documentation for the -std option. You really are not likely to get much help or support for 7.2. (Note! I am NOT a C programmer and have not been for many, many years, so I'm not going to be much help, either, for C issues.) -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683