From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 3 23:31:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA23383 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 23:31:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA23376 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 23:31:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA01046; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 23:31:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 23:31:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Bruce Albrecht cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X and Release 2.2.1 In-Reply-To: <199704030602.AAA08863@zuhause.mn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > I've seen some comments on this mailing list (or maybe freebsd-current) to > the effect that the binary version of XFree86 was improperly built, and is > really built against FreeBSD-current, which is really FreeBSD-3.0-current. > I'm about to install FreeBSD for the first time. I have the 2.1.6 CDROM, but > I'm planning on ftp'ing the 2.2.1 release, and installing it. Since I have > a Matrox Millenium, I'd really like to install the XFree3.2A release. Is > this the version that was built incorrectly, or was XFree3.2 that was built > against the wrong version? Would I be better off installing 2.1.6 and > waiting until the smoke clears for 2.2.1? Should I install XFree 3.2 from > scratch from the ports collection (and compile it myself), even though > the performance is supposed to be much better for my graphics card in 3.2A? You'll have to grab the 3.2A yourself from ftp://ftp.xfree86.org. It should be properly compiled. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major