From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 20:22:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F008216A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:22:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nuumen.pair.com (nuumen.pair.com [209.68.1.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BA6543D46 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:22:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thuppi@nuumen.pair.com) Received: (qmail 97189 invoked by uid 55300); 18 Jan 2005 20:22:04 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:22:04 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi X-X-Sender: thuppi@nuumen.pair.com To: Joaquin Menchaca In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <41E7704E.3050901@finnovative.net> <41E77E68.5060406@finnovative.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP: video for VIA/S3G CLE266 X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:22:05 -0000 For the record... On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Tom Huppi wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Joaquin Menchaca wrote: > > 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