Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 06:30:36 +0200 From: Lars Kristiansen <lars+lister.freebsd@adventuras.no> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 Message-ID: <A4D562E20E5E8248EF9C3109@cm-84.118.177.041.chello.no>
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--On Friday, June 17, 2005 08:09:23 PM -0700 Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote: > 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. If you read /usr/ports/Updating and go back to 20040723, you will see some recommended ways for going the other way. Maybe that will help. >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Med vennlig hilsen Lars Kristiansen A D V E N T U R A S Tlf: 22 20 59 90 Fax: 22 20 59 91 lars@adventuras.no http://www.adventuras.no
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