From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 18 14:53:06 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 2C47416A41C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:53:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from efbatey@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7213143D49 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:53:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from efbatey@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so73561wri for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 07:52:31 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Be4vq+RgBvVty4Xd+9saA+NEb+RfwLpK6tVv//OE2kgX7cES+gSKzTpBhkcq+i3wNaamhYC1FQ7aLp9GpFFfC9Blq9Rz+nXc3aQuM14wdU3XnctICKHRfULY644TtUDgxbIc6CJY3nkOKc7ctouwanpwcOL3xFCIJZcOCtRoeoo= Received: by 10.54.54.51 with SMTP id c51mr1660301wra; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 07:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.39.50 with HTTP; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 07:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 07:52:31 -0700 From: Everett Batey To: Kent Stewart In-Reply-To: <200506172009.23372.kstewart@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200506172009.23372.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ev Batey Gmail Subject: Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 - Nightmare on Elm Street Up_1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Everett Batey List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:53:06 -0000 Greg .. Right THEY (pkg_add, _delete, _info) are my friends.. =20 Kent .. =20 Could NOT find how to get XFree86-4.5.0,1 .. so=20 Thought I was doing pretty good grepping out all the pkg_info=20 refering xorg, 6.8.2 also, and pkg_delete -d-r each_found Then after editing the /etc/make.conf file to point back to the=20 much more mature XFree86 .. What EVER POSSESSED us to make Xorg a default without warning, mentioning it DOES NOT understand some MODERN, POPULAR, DRIVERS, eg Mine. Then Here Came Freddie on Elm Street ... since ggv was hosed=20 I could NOT cd the /usr/ports/gnome2 and make install .. that died an early death .. Finally falling fast onto my sword I did the effort to pkg_add -f -r for gnome2 .. Now on my fast Sempron 2400, best part of an hour of ... pkg_add: package 'xorg-fonts-encodings-6.8.2' conflicts with XFree86-fontEn= codin gs-4.4.0 pkg_add: please use pkg_delete first to remove conflicting package(s) or -f= to f orce installation pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'xorg-fonts-encodings-6.8.2' failed (proceed= ing a nyway) Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/= All/x org-libraries-6.8.2.tbz... Done. pkg_add: package 'xorg-libraries-6.8.2' conflicts with XFree86-libraries-4.= 4.0_3 pkg_add: please use pkg_delete first to remove conflicting package(s) or -f= to f orce installation pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'xorg-libraries-6.8.2' failed (proceeding an= yway) Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/= All/l ibglut-6.0.1.tbz... Done. AND of course looks like there are thousands of dependencies like this to DELETE,? REINSTALL? to get RID of Xorg .. Is there a faster way other than throwing in the towel on FreeBSD and reverting to Fedora or Knoppix for my public servers? /Everett/ On 6/17/05, 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. > > 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. >=20 > You pkg_delete anything that starts with xorg-* and imake. Change > make.conf to have > X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=3Dxfree86-4 >=20 > 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. >=20 > If you didn't do that when you installed xorg, that could be part of > your problem. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Other than the layout, it worked just fine, so, you have other problems. >=20 > Kent > > > > Thank you >=20 > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA >=20 > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html >=20 --=20 Ev Batey -- WA6CRE -- efbatey@gmail.com 805 340-6471 http://www.cotdazr.org