From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 9:29:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawaii.conterra.com (hawaii.conterra.com [209.12.164.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E5A37B617 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:29:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mariusr@hawaii.conterra.com) Received: from localhost (mariusr@localhost) by hawaii.conterra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA10266 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:29:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:29:11 -0500 (EST) From: Marius Rex To: freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Xlib install Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was just trying to install 3.4 Release on my system yesterday, from the official Walnut Creek cd-roms. And for some reason, I can never retrieve the Xlib files for XFree86. I have tried multiple times, and everything else install just fine. I can just choose "No" when it asks if I want to try to retieve the files again, and the rest of the install works beautifully. (I am using the novice install meathod.) Now we have the situation that X-windows mostly works. I can't, for example, reteive the videocard database when I try to set up X-windows. The shell script setup works, but I can't specify my card, yet everyting else goes through. And well, the graphical setup tool doesn't work at all. (no-bigge there) So I thought, hey, I have the full 4 disk set. I thought I could just utilize disk2 and get things working. Well, I can't go back to the distributions option in the /stand/sysinstall menu to uninstall what pieces of x-windows are already installed. (Good thing to do before I try to reinstall) I get the same error that I would from using A "custom" install. I read the errata. I doubt downloading the new boot disk image would help here. I could say more, but lets stick to one problem per email. If I could nicely unistall the XFree86 distribution I could likely just re-install it as a port. (From disk 2 even.) I don't know how to uninstall the distribution by hand, but perhaps I can find that in The Complete FreeBSD? Well, and advice beyond reinstalling withough XFree86 and -then- adding it later? A clue on how to figure out which files are missing, and thus retrieving them off the live filesystem would also be a boon. Please cc replies to this address _____________________ Marius Rex (Intern) mariusr@conterra.com "Dominus Eventus" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message