From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 18 15:32:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADBB7106564A for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:32:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from varga.michal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F8A8FC13 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:32:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxg9 with SMTP id 9so4288175fxg.13 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:32:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:organization :date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; bh=IaZBps3mTCO9+VrpA6KH8L0RKqYmuGCPGohpeh0rLTk=; b=Yks1SM5yFFzqi/FlPZn+5IXCspHAplOlm3S4IhVgeWnB1MY8589irNmYdj/bRc3bBx OBH+rCd6kmQRiQ4whrWakPl6NtppppM0x98/hqOawJF9TeXwtEW4UGOEgftWPODD9xQI h2W2xQ9Etx/mjikjBUxJoqAexkJokEVZ/Ua8k= Received: by 10.223.88.23 with SMTP id y23mr3523398fal.95.1316359945193; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:32:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.101.2] (254.166.broadband10.iol.cz. [90.177.166.254]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f10sm14079108fac.14.2011.09.18.08.32.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:32:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Michal Varga To: Antonio Olivares In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Stonehenge Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:32:20 +0200 Message-ID: <1316359940.1744.28.camel@xenon> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How does one install kernel sources and base X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:32:26 -0000 On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 09:00 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear folks, > > I have installed 9.0 - BETA 2, and I had no x, when I typed startx, > some folks have suggested to check if I have xorg-server, I will do > that as soon as I get to my machine on Monday. Also I will check if I > put into /etc/rc.conf, hald_enable="YES" and dbus_enable="YES" as > well, otherwise startx will not work. xorg works very well (and actually much better) without HAL and as far as I know, doesn't even use dbus. Try checking xorg port's config in: # cd /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server/ # make config You can then rebuild your xorg-server port if necessary. Note that for using xorg server without HAL, you will need to configure it properly (see manuals/howtos on xorg.conf, if you never done it before), what was the main 'issue' HAL was originally trying to solve. It failed miserably, which is the reason why newer xorg generations moved away from it and nowadays is only to be found as a sad reminder on FreeBSD. Generally, you will be better off without HAL as it only leads to more failures than running without it. > But my question is as follows, > How do I get kernel sources and base installed? You can download them via csup with a config file similar to this: *default host=cvsup5.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default compress delete use-rel-suffix src-all Save your config file (or so called supfile) someplace and run it as: # csup your.supfile csup will download the latest source tree for kernel and base OS. Also, see FreeBSD Handbook for more information on using csup (or the older, but functionally identical cvsup), and for many other questions regarding general FreeBSD installation and maintenance: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvsup.html m. -- Michal Varga, Stonehenge (Gmail account)