From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 7 4:58: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.inwind.it (relay2.inwind.it [212.141.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB26637B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 04:58:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (212.141.79.254) by relay2.inwind.it (5.1.046) id 39AF9CE300066284; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:57:13 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:57:19 GMT Message-ID: <20000907.12571900@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: XFree86 To: Mark Murray Cc: piotr.wozniak@cs.put.poznan.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200009071118.e87BI8D12655@grimreaper.grondar.za> References: <39B76512.CCC0DFFA@cs.put.poznan.pl> <200009071118.e87BI8D12655@grimreaper.grondar.za> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 9/7/00, 12:18:07 PM, Mark Murray wrote regarding=20 Re: XFree86 : > > Hi, > > I have installed XFree86 and there is no XF86Setup. Have you any ide= a=20 - > > why? > > I want to increase depth of color and modifing /etc/XF86Config has n= o > > result. > Tcl/Tk. > Build X, clean it out. Build Tcl/Tk 8.2. Build X again. You'll have=20 XF86Setup. > BTW - there is no XF86Setup in XFree86-4 yet. > M > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org Dear Mark Murray, from my installation.log, just to add another datapoint: =3D=3D=3D> Configuring for XFree86-3.3.6 Using tk-8.3 Which servers do you wish to build, you can save a lot of disk space by only compiling the server you will be using. It will also save you considerable compile time. *** If you want to use XF86Setup to set the INITIAL configuration, *** then you must build the VGA server Do you want to build the VGA16 server? [YES] Y Do you want to build the VGA16Dual server? [YES] Y IMHE, the configuration is possible via [a] few different versions;=20 mine is, er, are currently tcl-8.3.1 and tcl-8.2.3; I recall=20 installing XFree86-3.3.6 immediately after I had installed tk-8.3 (ie=20 which, in turn, installed tcl-8.3.1). Also, as a quick look at the PLIST confirms, different versions of Tcl=20 -- Tool Command Language -- can (should) happily coexist :-) Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message