From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 18 18:25:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 549A837B405 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21445; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:55:07 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010918172055.BSRJ12461.mta11.onebox.com@onebox.com> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:55:05 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: glenn gombert Subject: Re: Version of XFree86 in FreeBSD Release 4.4 Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18-Sep-2001 glenn gombert wrote: > 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?? Install the base OS, then build X from ports, or fetch the X4 package. Then start building packages that require X.. (Adding packages will fail because they all want X3, so you have to use ports) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message