From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 20 13:22:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBEB5106564A for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:22:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dg@pki2.com) Received: from btw.pki2.com (btw.pki2.com [IPv6:2001:470:a:6fd::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88C4C8FC23 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:22:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by btw.pki2.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q5KDM6Px086071; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 06:22:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@pki2.com) From: Dennis Glatting To: Lynn Steven Killingsworth In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 06:22:06 -0700 Message-ID: <1340198526.18260.3.camel@btw.pki2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-yoursite-MailScanner-Information: Dennis Glatting X-yoursite-MailScanner-ID: q5KDM6Px086071 X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: dg@pki2.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Need latest xorg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:22:15 -0000 On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 08:02 -0400, Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote: > Hi FreeBSD - > > I have an AMD HD 7950 video card so I am trying to install the latest > FreeBSD xorg available (7.5.2) for an updated driver. > Please let me know how well this (or doesn't) works. I have been looking at the 7970 series to screw around with CUDA but also as a multi-monitor card. > When I start make the install immediately stops at MesaLib-7.6.1.tar.gz. > I can restart it on a primary using the location given then after a short > time the install stops at /x11/9menu (/9menu-1.8.shar.gz) I can also > attempt to restart this on a couple of servers but after a trip around the > world my install still stops at /x11/9menu > > I live in Maine (USA) so I pick the MIT primary ftp5 since I inadvertly > determined it was MIT. ftp1 also sends me on a trip around the world with > the same result. > > If I can install xorg-7.5.2 I am hoping then that the install of > kde4-4.8.4 will complete on this new install of FreeBSD 9.0 > > Does anyone else have a favorite ftp that cooperates? (And I notice the > location in the server is different from the primaries on other servers?) > > Steve > > > -- Dennis Glatting