From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 6 17:29:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D49737B422 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:29:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id A85F3060136; Wed, 06 Feb 2002 17:29:03 -0800 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:28:36 -0800 From: Chip To: "Doug Reynolds" Cc: mij@soupnazi.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: looking for XFree86 4.2 Message-Id: <20020206172836.06888d8a.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <20020206194349.CBB634844F@wastegate.net> References: <20020206194023.GB1948@helios.dub.net> <20020206194349.CBB634844F@wastegate.net> Organization: Alternative Operating Systems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:45:55 -0500 "Doug Reynolds" wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:40:23 -0800, Jim Mock wrote: > > >> >http://people.freebsd.org/~jmz/XFree86-4.2.0.tar.gz > >> > >> yeah- i tried that without any luck.. it keeps coming up bad or reverse > >> patch... did you have any problems? > > > >Nope, built it last night, worked fine. If you're untarring it in > >/usr/ports/x11, you'll probably want to nuke the existing XFree86-4 port > >from there before doing so since it will only overwrite files that > >already exist and not nuke ones that aren't used anymore. > > come to think of it, i didn't nuke it.. i've been playing around with > it for a couple day- keep forgettign what i've done.. thanx. > i'll try it. > > --- > doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net I installed the source for XFree86-4.2.0 and it works fine. My hardware is a bit on the old side now though, if that matters. One other point about my install - I also did a new, clean install of FreeBSD 4.5 and did not install X at that time. So, be sure to follow the directions if you already have X installed. One more point, now that it is installed, it is only useable by root. I haven't got that straightened out yet. -- Chip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message