Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:21:11 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: nm <nmanisca@vt.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: looking for X Message-ID: <20000303082110.A6166@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <14526.59462.998088.513074@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 05:22:05PM -0500 References: <3.0.32.20000302161119.0370f9d0@mail.vt.edu> <14526.59462.998088.513074@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 05:22:05PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > nm writes: > > I just installed FreeBSD 4.0-20000214-CURRENT on my > > AlphaStation 200 4/233. The install went great except > > for one thing... XFree86 wasn't found and therefore > > wasn't installed. So, what is the propper way to install > > X on my system? > > > > I may not be the best one to answer this.. > > There are binaries at > ftp://releng3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/alpha/4.0-20000208-CURRENT/XF86336/ > > However, people have been complaining that one of the X libs is > missing from the snapshot. I'm not sure if that affects the binaries > in this location or not. On RC2 libXThrStub.so.6 was missing. The install as such was not affected. But (almost) nothing ran because of the missing shared lib. On the other hand: I have not but grief with 4.0 & X on Alpha. Varies from system lockups to completely hosed filesystems when running x11perf. This is on both Miata MX5 and Aspen Alpine (EB64+) systems with various S3 and Mach64 VGA cards. W/ -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands http://www.tcja.nl The FreeBSD Project: http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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