From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 8 16:54:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.san.rr.com (smtp2.san.rr.com [24.25.195.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4761837B406 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 16:54:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 24-161-160-142.san.rr.com (24-161-160-142.san.rr.com [24.161.160.142]) by smtp2.san.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g58Nsfs04117 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 16:54:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 16:54:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: root@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com To: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Installing XFree86 from source? Message-ID: <20020608165057.M502-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Okay, the saga continues . . . after doing a "rm -rf" on both my /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 directories, I went to www.xfree86.org and downloaded: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 25961532 Jun 6 22:59:21 2002 X420src-1.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 23227328 Jun 6 22:59:34 2002 X420src-2.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9306679 Jun 6 22:58:37 2002 X420src-3.tgz Later, when all three were gunzipped and untarred, I had a dir called: drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 512 Jun 7 22:52:23 2002 xc I am wary of just changing to that directory and typing "make all" or "make World" because, well, I don't know what I am doing. So here is my limited first question. How do I make sure the "make" knows about my OS?? Thanks, PS - Foregoing the hassle of borrowing someone's videocard, I plan on trying just the standard svga or vga drivers once X is reinstalled; Both the ati and r128 (Rage128) drivers have failed me miserably, as has ATI >:( -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message