From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 11 06:15:20 2011 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 1C2DC106566B for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:15:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: from nm26.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (nm26.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.94.237.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B17278FC08 for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:15:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.94.237.198] by nm26.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 Dec 2011 06:01:40 -0000 Received: from [98.139.221.48] by tm9.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 Dec 2011 06:01:40 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp101.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 Dec 2011 06:01:40 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=prodigy.net; s=s1024; t=1323583300; bh=892HHsuwjM6kWVrivvgnPaadHcoR0gCTc2XRnvH+dBA=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-Id:From:To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Mime-Version:Subject:Date:X-Mailer; b=Heiel/v0pxt7ERw/y7ceOd9MrLor5V/A2NiFJBIZaI/VmmnEMpw+T6TXsUvofe1DN2suz9APJT+4MsLyy/74wPw78++lTk0jdQsRXJYvKV+vFRwGv/pGT6vDC2scexNrtzk09kkPSo3BRi2voMHcaaLvoUH6M02f9v0Jnzl1onY= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 73759.70375.bm@smtp101.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: 7SxxP38VM1laDMXw00hGasW6A_UYNK1cXeXgHq.VyZnv30c xsi0zebcZgu9dIF3z6G98XI_8g_w2Di8qD6Lrt6wV98H.wkkCs9ZPCRtS8Mq IpN4yz.xTHf2HVk9MFj_6IiOQJW848ufzISil3fDG5XCuoodOHqeMFUYnPex uoQuHc5AaplGCUDcFUFR4xAqUjkIdVSCMr_0dtwIas1zXc6aeA9ndNSLYOZ7 eI9D548FK5NWxFPjsxDZAlUaUAZLJUTXLc6eCQ0A3gOPx76tnW9G4lDA7Ea6 9jqZ8L3Z.EdCYzfaqP8YDzZS6siJMT779PinNSwbPjggCwNTQ9egfLEeLwAh u.3It4UuhajytfaPgiesxQZJ8BBlvK4l1jpbVL_GepHHvDV2ExYqPFu0vkYc m8N6yCzY.l8Ud4sez_mN2xAJxfi7aCA-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: 46rcWa.swBDnY9zvhIrsU2awgPSTQgUKFFrFJjEU8wwG Received: from [192.168.0.2] (jekillen@174.30.19.138 with plain) by smtp101.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Dec 2011 22:01:39 -0800 PST Message-Id: <88E8118F-3B0A-4453-9E10-2BE6733E4C81@prodigy.net> From: Jeffry Killen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:01:30 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Subject: Installation difficulties 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: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:15:20 -0000 Hello; I am not new to FreeBSD, but it has been a while since I worked with it. The last version I obtained from FreeBSD Mall is 7.2. The jewel case is marked with a date of May 2009, so it is a little behind. But I expected it to boot the i386 version installer, which it did on an Intel 64 bit processor. The 64 bit version is marked 'AMD64'. I would have gotten a laptop with AMD but this particular seller (Linux Certified) did not have one available when I was ready to buy. So now I am at it because the warrantee on the laptop has expired. So, I installed x-developer and attempted to install Apache from the included ports. None of the listed version would install: error code -1. I also tried MySQL. The first time it also failed to install. But did sysinstall and tried a different version than originally selected, and it did install. Since I wanted the GUI, I ran xinit when I got a shell prompt and xwindows failed to load and run, the error is "failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist). Perhaps this is not an issue that can be addressed practically, here, which is alright with me. But short of getting another DVD and trying to install from that is there a way to deal, at least with the fbdev complaint? My experience with FreeBSD goes back to 6.0, setting up and running servers, specifically web servers. This is going to be a development server, as it had been when it had Ubuntu Linux. Thank you for time and attention; JK