From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 18 10:24:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE8C37B418 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] helo=dogma) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 15jObj-000GJC-00; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:24:28 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f8IHOR152289; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:24:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:24:26 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Pete Fritchman Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does installing X require the compat3x and compat4x dists Message-ID: <20010918182426.B51997@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010918012828.A98117@dragon.nuxi.com> <008301c1405d$0aa33990$38934dc7@cnd.gatech.edu> <20010918173514.B51703@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <006001c14061$b7050750$38934dc7@cnd.gatech.edu> <20010918175227.A51997@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010918131914.B81290@databits.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010918131914.B81290@databits.net>; from petef@databits.net on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:19:14PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:19:14PM -0400, Pete Fritchman wrote: | ++ 18/09/01 17:52 +0100 - j mckitrick: | | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:48:16PM -0400, Jeff Lee wrote: | | | When I installed linux-mandrake, it installed XFree86 4.0 and worked | | | fine, but under FreeBSD it wouldn't work. | | | | Right now this is only an annoyance, but I wonder if there is anything that | | could streamline building 4.x so it works and installs as smoothly as 3.x? | | There has to be some issue (or handful of issues) that are making this much | | more difficult than it needs to be. | | % cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 && make install | | If you get errors, you should submit a PR. That was the easy part. :-) After running the configure program (I forget what it is called, but you run it as root and then use the created file as a starting point) X would die right after clearing a black screen. I never did get it to work, and I couldn't figure out what went wrong. 'Send output to XFree86.org' which I did, and never heard back. jm -- My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message