From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 6 14: 1:23 2003 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 21B7237B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:01:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net (conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4139E43FAF for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:01:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from parv_fm@mailsent.net) Received: from sdn-ap-010dcwashp0408.dialsprint.net ([63.188.97.154] helo=moo.holy.cow) by conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18gu55-0005N1-00; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:01:16 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 267A3AD71; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:04:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:04:14 -0500 From: parv To: Jud Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 from CVS? Message-ID: <20030206220413.GA443@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Jud , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message , 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