Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:28:55 -0400 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> To: Stan Gammons <s_gammons@charter.net> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Port Build options Message-ID: <CAOFF%2BZ3CeW_jabVxwAJoh737o577d238NzwZ1x_1k-4_YBwjxA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6C2195D6-10E6-4032-B348-CE27C2203B79@charter.net> References: <1375237644.27294.4.camel@localhost> <CAOFF%2BZ13DfXR8=rqBmAO9SNbw2zjXGeBrid-moCKTHrMDbyEJQ@mail.gmail.com> <1375264380.27294.9.camel@localhost> <CAOFF%2BZ2PrgK-a2CqyQMxK7C37np%2BSuBZ_GrRuVthnpELyDRXaA@mail.gmail.com> <6C2195D6-10E6-4032-B348-CE27C2203B79@charter.net>
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Stan Gammons <s_gammons@charter.net> wrote: > Sam and list, sorry for the top post. That goes with using a mobile device > for email. > > I like FreeBSD a lot and would like to get KDE4 working with it, but I may > try PC-BSD. I went back to 8.4 and used sysinstall to install KDE4 and it > mostly works the way I expect. The one thing that doesn't work the way I > expected it when you change consoles and then try to go back to the root > console using ctrl alt f1. One finds the console has moved either to f8 or > f9. I guess the other problems I have are best asked on the kde list. > > Stan, if that is your only problem, that is a KNOWN issue, and it exists in PC-BSD as well.. it has to do with KMS/GEM there are many posts talking about it on various FreeBSD mailing lists.. there is no fix for this currently, and it explains why FreeBSD 8.4 works for you... becasue I don't think KMS was backported to FreeBSD 8.x my question for you now is, do you NEED KMS/GEM support? what type of video device do you have? Xorg has a new option for make.conf WITH_NEW_XORG= -- Sam Fourman Jr.
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