Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:26:38 -0700 From: "Andrew Falanga" <af300wsm@gmail.com> To: fatman@n0.5p4m.crackmonkey.us Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help Message-ID: <340a29540711100826m13846542tf3a384271208357c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <473467ED.1010107@crackmonkey.us> References: <340a29540711080658y2567679epd1e11c584d1c9ed2@mail.gmail.com> <473467ED.1010107@crackmonkey.us>
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On Nov 9, 2007 7:00 AM, Adam J Richardson <fatman@crackmonkey.us> wrote: > Andrew Falanga wrote: > Hi Andy, > > I botched my 6.9-7.2 upgrade too. It's easy to do even if you follow the > instructions. Can't remember what the problem was now, certainly it was > something no one else had, typical. :^) Ah well, all fixed now anyway. > > It's easy to botch even a simple install of X. Took me a while to learn > that you have to install 1) Xorg, 2) mesa-demos, 3) nVidia driver, in > that order (assuming you want mesa-demos, of course). > > Regards, > Adam J Richardson > Thanks. Unfortunately, I'm using amd64 and the nVidia driver isn't yet ported (there was a thread on the reason why quite some time ago, it's something to do with FreeBSD internally). Andy
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