Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:01:13 -0500 From: "Mezz bsdforums.org" <reigncracks@hotmail.com> To: tjs@psaux.com Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: confusion about xscreensaver-gnome Message-ID: <F781XD256NOVMhCQuqT0001091d@hotmail.com>
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>On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 23:42, Tim Showalter wrote: > > I have some questions about this port. I'd like to run 4.09 instead of > > the currently ported 4.08, but I'm having some problems doing so. I > > can't get things to play nicely. > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.5, and have upgraded things piecemeal so many > > times it's quite likely I have introduced problems. > >FreeBSD 4.5 is no longer supported. You should upgrade to at least >4.6. This is documented at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/. > > > > > I have three problems: > > > > (1) xscreensaver works okay but the gnome startup sequence hangs if my > > built-from-source version is installed but not if the /usr/ports > > version is installed. I'd like to understand why. I assume I'm not > > including enough of the options that ports supplies but it looks > > like jwz's verion should "just work", and I'd like to help fix that. > >You might try patching the port to 4.09, and see if that helps. >However, since you're running 4.5, there is no guarantee it will work. >It certainly hasn't been tested. > > > > > (2) I don't understand some of the patches and I suspect they're > > obsolete. (Configuring datadir is redundant in one of the > > Makefiles; --without-gnome is the default if GNOME 2.x exists on the > > system anyway; etc.) I'd like to help either get rid of these so > > the upstream version works better, or otherwise try and get them > > merged in. > >Then submit patches. > > > > > (3) some (new) hacks in 4.09 crash where similar hacks in 4.08 don't. > > I'd like to upgrade and get everything else working before I try and > > find the culprit (based on a backtrace, jwz blames Mesa but I don't > > have a way to substantiate that yet, and the behavior of some hacks > > between the 4.08 and 4.09 versions differs but I can't understand > > why). > > > > I suspect gnome@freebsd.org is a mailing list, but I can't figure out > > where such a list would exist. If it is, and I should be subscribed to > > it to talk about this, please let me know. > >freebsd-gnome@ is a mailing list. You're free to join if you'd like. >You can read more about the project at the above-mentioned URL. Addiditon: Check -> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL Cheers, Mezz >Joe > > > > > Thanks! > > > > Tim _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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