From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 18 03:09:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7DD716A41C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 03:09:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD90743D1D for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 03:09:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j5I39MFG020282; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:09:22 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Everett Batey Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:09:23 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506172009.23372.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 03:09:25 -0000 On Friday 17 June 2005 07:53 pm, Everett Batey wrote: > Two weeks of fighting with Xorg on FreeBSD_4 .. > > CAN ANYONE tell me the steps for hopefully > deleting Xorg and > replacing with XFree86_4. > That runs fine with my KM3M-V on board video .. > > PLEASE, I hate to think of leaving BSD after this > many years on my servers. You pkg_delete anything that starts with xorg-* and imake. Change make.conf to have X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4 You might be able to get away with just installing XFree86-4.5.0,1 and imake but I have a tendancy to think Murphy will get involved. If that happens, you will need to bebuild most/all of your ports that use XFree86. If you didn't do that when you installed xorg, that could be part of your problem. FWIW, xorg doesn't work well on my FreeBSD-4.x systems. I installed it, got tired of not being able to switch between the Spanish keyboard layout and English and reinstalled everything that had been built with XFree86. I had packages on an almost identical computer, so it wasn't a big deal and did a package install of everything. Other than the layout, it worked just fine, so, you have other problems. Kent > > Thank you -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html