From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 31 13:28:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958B0DCF for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:28:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sfourman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vb0-x232.google.com (mail-vb0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c02::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 50AE021F7 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f50.google.com with SMTP id x14so671888vbb.23 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:28:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=DT/AsSv2JQ3KA91vp5Qa2YeuSHLXkD8FxD41awlLxVA=; b=LP/wO02/dT6RvUyUtSlPMIFbqQx7EStQHUOT7rDkIU5NNx0v1zEXvOHQj/bxU67Bcp 3EzCtjSNW3Ovkd8kwd7G5hWxdkIbXrCMyw1+4e6MUASpmuJ7fn0228vtuyzAb5e97lEr 0sb4m4upaWzKhhM/WSfQ2QTlQKCN+K3F6DHbdoMm5PP7w8GqIiESWuu0zCkRrgMPubow vjsqjmhYVQkfnIFd1g6qeewtCvM7i8+oUSOU5cptV6SgGmjsmci9iniBk1jbSBXefssI GaREjnx4hiunqJzZLb4XSzVjJINJ+YBcofm+s9vDGICON6sNTYsQvdB3aabb4gl9yTmy Yfqg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.58.217.167 with SMTP id oz7mr19932673vec.15.1375277335263; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:28:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.96.78 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:28:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6C2195D6-10E6-4032-B348-CE27C2203B79@charter.net> References: <1375237644.27294.4.camel@localhost> <1375264380.27294.9.camel@localhost> <6C2195D6-10E6-4032-B348-CE27C2203B79@charter.net> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:28:55 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Port Build options From: "Sam Fourman Jr." To: Stan Gammons Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:28:56 -0000 On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Stan Gammons 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.