From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 23 04:45:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D561065670 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:45:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: from babylon.webvis.net (babylon.webvis.net [202.157.163.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F3778FC08 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:45:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: from [10.0.1.240] ([119.73.191.194]) by babylon.webvis.net ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:45:35 +0800 SGT From: Erich Dollansky To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:45:32 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906231045.33179.oceanare@pacific.net.sg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rcpt-To: Subject: Xorg 7.4, hald & dbus when upgrading via packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:45:43 -0000 Hi, with reference to this http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=694 I have a machine which got upgraded since the FreeBSD 6.1 days to 6.4 via the ports and never got XOrg 7.4 running because i never got hald and dbus properly installed. Just by chance, I saw that both hald and dbus are not put into place. After compiling the respective ports by hand, deinstalling the packages and reinstalling the ports, hald and dbus appeared to be in the proper place and working. Since then, I have Xorg 7.4 working with hal support. Erich