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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:20:55 -0700
Subject: Re: Version of XFree86 in FreeBSD Release 4.4
From: "glenn gombert" <glenngombert@zdnetonebox.com>
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 My interest in a later version of XFree86 is that in trying to install
FreeBSD-Current on my Dell Insperion 4000e Laptop, the ATI Rage 128 3D
graphics accelerator used is not supported at all under XFree86 3.3.6.
So I am forced to upgrade to a later version of XFree86 to get 'X' to
work at all....

 Can someone outline the easiest way to do that given how things are
in the FreeBSD-4.3 Release??

Thanks in Advance,
Glenn G. 


---- Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> wrote:
> Thus spake Robert Withrow (bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com):
> 
> > I know it is slimy, but couldn't there be a dummy "port" just
> > called "XFree86" that is what most other ports depend on?  The minority
> > of ports that actually care what version of X is installed could
> always
> > use the version-specific names...
> 
> Would be nice if we had a package system that lets you just install
> - let me call them - "features", such as a "XFree86" feature, other
> ports could depend on.   Multiple packages could supply this feature
> then and ports could also say if they depend on a specific version.
> 
> Alex,
> hiding in a dark corner.
> 

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