From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 18 04:32:55 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 3533B16A41C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:32:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars+lister.freebsd@adventuras.no) Received: from mail.adventuras.no (mail.adventuras.no [194.63.250.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1CF343D4C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:32:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars+lister.freebsd@adventuras.no) Received: from cm-84.118.177.041.chello.no (cm-84.118.177.041.chello.no [84.118.177.41]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.adventuras.no (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5I4W5Fp009757 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 06:32:11 +0200 Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 06:30:36 +0200 From: Lars Kristiansen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Adventuras-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Adventuras: du kan filtrere etter AdvSpamScore over 5-10 X-Adventuras-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-5.899, required 6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -3.30, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: lars+lister.freebsd@adventuras.no 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 04:32:55 -0000 --On Friday, June 17, 2005 08:09:23 PM -0700 Kent Stewart 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