Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:42:54 -0500 From: trini0 <trini0@optonline.net> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>, Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New version of XFree86 Message-ID: <3AB5560E.6050805@optonline.net> References: <000501c1cec6$a287a690$112e893e@slatch> <20010318172915.A16395@northernbrewer.com>
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I can attest to a flawless XFree86-4 build and configure. Im running it right now. The hard part was waiting a couple of hours for it to compile. What is the NO_X=true for in make.conf. I just used XFREE86_VERSION=4 and I haven't any problems so far (knock on wood).... lata Christopher Farley wrote: > Ryan Li (ryan@duli.fsnet.co.uk) wrote: > > >> Dear FreeBSD Developer Team: >> >> Could you add XFree86 4.0.2 or newer to the 4.3 stable release please? My >> graphic card would not work with the older versions of XFree86, and I really >> don't want to wait for another 3 months for the next release. I would be >> very grateful if you could. So please help me. > > > I'm not a developer, but XFree86-4 will not be included in 4.3-release, > primarily because it does not yet support many older cards. > > There is an easy solution, though: install XFree86-4 from the ports > collection. Then specify the following in your /etc/make.conf: > > NO_X=true > XFREE86_VERSION=4 > > All other ports with an XFree86 dependency build flawlessly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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