Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:04:14 -0500 From: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net> To: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 from CVS? Message-ID: <20030206220413.GA443@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <oprj6vvhwe0cf2rk@fastmail.fm> References: <oprj6vvhwe0cf2rk@fastmail.fm>
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in message <oprj6vvhwe0cf2rk@fastmail.fm>, wrote Jud thusly... > > My question: Is it reasonable to try to install XFree86 from CVS > on FreeBSD 4-STABLE, I did too once for some early 4.x version... > particularly for someone who lacks good wide-ranging Unix > knowledge? ...can't say much about that one or the other. > (I can follow simple directions - with my prior card I was using > the nVidia drivers without difficulty.) Has anyone out there done > this recently? Tips, "gotchas?" I followed the directions from the XFree86 web site & those listed in the INSTALL and README files (or whatever they were called). It took some time & space to compile, but there were no problems in the compile process or installing the files at a preferred location. The only problem that i had was to set up the environment to pull the cvs source. - Parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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