Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:22:04 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi <thuppi@huppi.com> To: Joaquin Menchaca <linuxuser@finnovative.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP: video for VIA/S3G CLE266 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501181508290.91013@nuumen.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501140347270.89970@nuumen.pair.com> References: <41E7704E.3050901@finnovative.net> <41E77E68.5060406@finnovative.net> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501140347270.89970@nuumen.pair.com>
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For the record... On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Tom Huppi wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Joaquin Menchaca wrote: <snip> > > Would I have to get the latest xorg + these drivers with some sort of > > package manager? How can I tell the current version of Xorg that I am > > running? Could I just compile these drivers? If so, how do I get them > > to work, and how do I get it into the system so that I can select them? > I just built and installed xorg from the ports collection to try > to get rid of all references to 'libc_r' which was crashing > certain applications on my 5.3 system (upgraded from 5.1 via > buildworld.) It was not too bad...just took a long time on my old > machine. I suggest (if using 'ports' rather than 'packages') that > one maybe does a 'cd ...x11/xorg make', then after it builds > sucessfully pkg_delete the XFree86 stuff, then go back and 'make > install'. This will allow normal use of the machine for the day > or so it takes to build xorg. This appears to be bad advice. I just tried it on my third machine and it seems that XOrg is perfectly happy with 'libX11' from the old XFree86 installation (with regard to satisfying it's dependencies.) > Since this wasn't the route I took I can't say conclusivly that > it would work, but I think it should be fine. As I say, *it wasn't*. Maybe with some other trickery it would be, but there is something to be said for keeping it simple. FWIW, I was able to use my machine for many hours (in an xwindows environment (with plenty of swapping!)) after pkg_delete'ing XFree86*...it's just that I couldn't open any new windows, and my browser crashed pretty quickly. I Just thought I should clear this up since at least one person (me!) gets a lot of info by searching google, and it's nice to see notes like this. Thanks, - Tom
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