From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 8 01:49:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4506216A41F for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 01:49:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from teoheras@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D049B43D45 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 01:49:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from teoheras@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so519495nzo for ; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 18:49:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=HqoQaELu+o61sZ50VW7SG1W6bfQAG3NduWcQOKSvY7Mi98MSCLx4B7wxP4BKhexPsgywTDy7tyBUls6HcMpva8jgmpYijkbulcHLseLNGuQF5NCSIdAcmvZBzPN0XMZu2FSYLPOFDSY/s5qWzXmmQg392WScNyKwnpfkO5RYLq4= Received: by 10.36.251.4 with SMTP id y4mr1958634nzh; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 18:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.141.18 with HTTP; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:49:40 -0400 From: Teo De Las Heras To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200508071622.36367.bryan.maynard@reallm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200508071622.36367.bryan.maynard@reallm.com> Subject: Re: X11 / XFree86 Installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 01:49:41 -0000 O.K. I'm now in the process of installing Xorg from the ports that are included in FreeBSD 5.3. About half way through I am getting a message that libXft-2.1.6.tar.gz is not available. I have tried to download it to the distfiles directory from various FTP site the when I run make I get checksum errors. Teo On 8/7/05, Bryan Maynard wrote: > On Sunday 07 August 2005 03:55 pm, Teo De Las Heras wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have successfully installed FreeBSD 5 but I did not add the X Window > >System to the list of installed items because I wanted to try and > >install the packages myself. I can see that I have X11 available with > >my ports. Make install clean runs successfully but XFree86 -configure > >does not. Also, my motherboard has PCI-X. Would this keep me from > >running the X config? I've downloaded and installed the new NVidia > >drivers. >=20 > Xorg has replaced XFree86 as the window manager for FreeBSD as well as > most Linux distros. Xorg is a newer version of XFee86. I would check > out X.org for a little info. The process for setting up Xorg is mostly > the same as for XFree86, you just replace XFree86 with Xorg wherever > needed. It's been a while since I installed Xorg, but I believe the > handbook (at freebsd.org) has instructions for both XFree86 and Xorg > setup and configuration. >=20 > >freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > Bryan > -- > Open Source: by the people, for the people. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >