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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

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