Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:39:31 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, perikillo@gmail.com Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.4 cannot fetch xfree86? Message-ID: <42BFBB43.6060608@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200506271038.30742.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> References: <200506271028.10675.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <42BFB9A2.9030703@u.washington.edu> <200506271038.30742.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
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Dejan Lesjak wrote: >On Monday 27 of June 2005 10:32, you wrote: > > >>Dejan Lesjak wrote: >> >> >>>perikillo wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi to all. >>>> I install freebsd 5.4 Release, with xorg i have problems with my >>>>kbd, and i decide to install the old friend XFree86-4, i read the >>>>handbook about, the example say: >>>>test# pkg_add -r XFree86 >>>> >>>> >>>Packages are only being built for default X - that is for XFree86 on >>>FreeBSD 4.x and for Xorg on FreeBSD 5.x. If you want XFree86-4 you will >>>need to build it from ports and set X_WINDOW_SYSTEM knob appropriately >>>(see FAQ: >>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#XFREE86-VERSI >>>ON). >>> >>>What kind of problem do you have with keyboard? >>> >>>Dejan >>> >>> >> As mentioned earlier today, XFree86 project support is essentially >>being phased out of many open source OSes since many of the devs from >>XFree86 went to the Xorg project over what I believe was licensing issues. >> In terms of the keyboard, check the actual module name since they >>changed it in Xorg (either kbd -> keyboard or keyboard -> kbd). That >>hung me up for a while in Gentoo. >>-Garrett >> >> > >Erm, yes, thanks. I believe you wanted to tell that to original poster >(perikillo <perikillo@gmail.com>) instead of to me :) > > >Dejan > > Ah, shoot yes. Sorry for the unnecessary email.
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