From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Apr 26 19:12:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9CAC37B400 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 19:12:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.86.84]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:12:06 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 38430BB29; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:12:06 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Tuc Subject: Re: Dell 8200 - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go - XF86 Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:12:05 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: marcus@marcuscom.com (Joe Marcus Clarke), tuc@ttsg.com (Tuc), blovett@bsdguru.com (Ben Lovett), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200204262319.TAA06034@heimdall.ttsg.com> In-Reply-To: <200204262319.TAA06034@heimdall.ttsg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020427021206.38430BB29@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday 26 April 2002 07:19 pm, Tuc wrote: | > There's lots to choose from. I favor kde myself, but you install them | > all the same basic way . . . | > | > Note that installing one from packages probably won't generate optimal | > results since you have a newer X. | | Do tell. Can you explain more? Well, it's probably perfectly find, but the packages are built once, at release time, whereas the XFree 4.2 postdates the release, so it has to be build from that port. If you build both from ports, then they are both current. If you install both from packges, then they are both older (current as of when the release was done). But if you build X from a port and install the window manager as a package, then the wind up running with an older package over a newer X. This will almost certainly work just fine, but it's not the usual order in which things are done (if anything one typically has a newer window manager over an older X), and you run some risk of anomolies. Not much of a risk, really, since the release isn't that old, but I'd still recommend building the window manager from ports if you can. Indeed, it's generally best, in my experience to either make a package-based system, using ports for those few specific cases where there's some reason to build from ports, or a port-based system only using packges for those few cases where the ports won't work. | (BTW: If I sound like a newbie, please excuse. I ran Linux back | in the 1.0.9 days, and now run BSD/OS, and plan to move the webhosting over | to FreeBSD, so this is my first foray... Still trying to make my way | around) | | Thanks, Tuc/TTSG Internet Services, Inc. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org If you smell the smoke you don't need to be told what you've got to do; Yet there's a certain breed, so very in-between, they'd rather take a vote. -- DEVO -- Here To Go To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message