Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 07:52:31 -0700 From: Everett Batey <efbatey@gmail.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ev Batey Gmail <efbatey@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 - Nightmare on Elm Street Up_1 Message-ID: <e3ef6b79050618075227a97ba3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200506172009.23372.kstewart@owt.com> References: <e3ef6b79050617195324ae5411@mail.gmail.com> <200506172009.23372.kstewart@owt.com>
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Greg .. Right THEY (pkg_add, _delete, _info) are my friends.. Kent .. Could NOT find how to get XFree86-4.5.0,1 .. so Thought I was doing pretty good grepping out all the pkg_info refering xorg, 6.8.2 also, and pkg_delete -d-r each_found Then after editing the /etc/make.conf file to point back to the much more mature XFree86 .. What EVER POSSESSED us to make Xorg a default without warning, mentioning it DOES NOT understand some MODERN, POPULAR, DRIVERS, eg Mine. Then Here Came Freddie on Elm Street ... since ggv was hosed I could NOT cd the /usr/ports/gnome2 and make install .. that died an early death .. Finally falling fast onto my sword I did the effort to pkg_add -f -r for gnome2 .. Now on my fast Sempron 2400, best part of an hour of ... pkg_add: package 'xorg-fonts-encodings-6.8.2' conflicts with XFree86-fontEncodin gs-4.4.0 pkg_add: please use pkg_delete first to remove conflicting package(s) or -f to f orce installation pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'xorg-fonts-encodings-6.8.2' failed (proceeding a nyway) Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/All/x org-libraries-6.8.2.tbz... Done. pkg_add: package 'xorg-libraries-6.8.2' conflicts with XFree86-libraries-4.4.0_3 pkg_add: please use pkg_delete first to remove conflicting package(s) or -f to f orce installation pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'xorg-libraries-6.8.2' failed (proceeding anyway) Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/All/l ibglut-6.0.1.tbz... Done. AND of course looks like there are thousands of dependencies like this to DELETE,? REINSTALL? to get RID of Xorg .. Is there a faster way other than throwing in the towel on FreeBSD and reverting to Fedora or Knoppix for my public servers? /Everett/ On 6/17/05, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote: > On Friday 17 June 2005 07:53 pm, Everett Batey wrote: > > Two weeks of fighting with Xorg on FreeBSD_4 .. > > > > CAN ANYONE tell me the steps for hopefully > > deleting Xorg and > > replacing with XFree86_4. > > That runs fine with my KM3M-V on board video .. > > > > PLEASE, I hate to think of leaving BSD after this > > many years on my servers. > > You pkg_delete anything that starts with xorg-* and imake. Change > make.conf to have > X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4 > > You might be able to get away with just installing XFree86-4.5.0,1 and > imake but I have a tendancy to think Murphy will get involved. If that > happens, you will need to bebuild most/all of your ports that use > XFree86. > > If you didn't do that when you installed xorg, that could be part of > your problem. > > FWIW, xorg doesn't work well on my FreeBSD-4.x systems. I installed it, > got tired of not being able to switch between the Spanish keyboard > layout and English and reinstalled everything that had been built with > XFree86. I had packages on an almost identical computer, so it wasn't a > big deal and did a package install of everything. > > Other than the layout, it worked just fine, so, you have other problems. > > Kent > > > > Thank you > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html > -- Ev Batey -- WA6CRE -- efbatey@gmail.com 805 340-6471 http://www.cotdazr.orghelp
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