Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 04:21:39 -0600 From: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3: want to install XFree86 Message-ID: <200412270421.39537.lane@joeandlane.com> In-Reply-To: <20041226212114.K81983@trhj.homeunix.net> References: <mailman.3496.1104124273.8172.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20041226212114.K81983@trhj.homeunix.net>
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On Sunday 26 December 2004 23:31, Theodore D. Sternberg wrote: > I've had it with Xorg and would like to go back to XFree86. > Unfortunately, when I go to /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 and type "make", it > doesn't do anything; it just gives me this message... > > ===> XFree86-4.4.0_1,1 is part of XFree86-4. > > and exits. > > XFree86 was giving me everything I needed, back under FreeBSD 5.1. Xorg, > in contrast, is one huge hassle. "Xorg -config" produces an xorg.conf.new > file that doesn't work (I have ATI Rage 128). Then, reading some of the > traffic on this mailing list I see talk about preloading AGP and ATI from > /boot/loaders.conf, and I know I'd be getting in way too deep if I did > that. > > To further confirm my ignorance, I'll ask this: what exactly is Xorg? Is > it just a different X server (and associated configuration tools)? Or is > it something more broad-based than that? > > If I succeed in building an XFree86 server, can I just make the > appropriate symlink -- /usr/X11R6/bin/X --, install my old XFree86.conf > file in /etc/X11, and run with that? Or is it going to be more > complicated? > > Ted Sternberg > Fremont, California > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hey, Ted. X.Org is/are the guys that originally developed, and now maintain the X window system. The X window system is the base upon which most window managers sit. A window manager is the thing that we call a "desktop" .. like KDE, fvwm2, gnome, sawfish, and several others that are lesser-known. If you are using FreeBSD 5+ then Rage support is built into the kernel and/or automatically loaded at boot and will be available to you if you install X from ports. The message you are getting seems to imply that X is already installed ... although you just about have to be a mind-reader to know it. The reason I say that is because I get the same message, and I *know* that X is installed over here. Here's what I'd do ... and to be sure, others will say NOT to do this ... but here goes: cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 make deinstall make clean make all install clean login <non-root-user> startx good luck! lane
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