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Date:      Sat, 8 Jun 2002 16:54:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Subject:   Installing XFree86 from source?
Message-ID:  <20020608165057.M502-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com>

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Okay, the saga continues . . . after doing a "rm -rf" on both my /etc/X11
and /usr/X11R6 directories, I went to www.xfree86.org and downloaded:

-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  25961532 Jun  6 22:59:21 2002 X420src-1.tgz
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  23227328 Jun  6 22:59:34 2002 X420src-2.tgz
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   9306679 Jun  6 22:58:37 2002 X420src-3.tgz

Later, when all three were gunzipped and untarred, I had a dir called:

drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel       512 Jun  7 22:52:23 2002 xc

I am wary of just changing to that directory and typing "make all" or "make
World" because, well, I don't know what I am doing.  So here is my limited
first question.  How do I make sure the "make" knows about my OS?? Thanks,

PS - Foregoing the hassle of borrowing someone's videocard, I plan on
trying just the standard svga or vga drivers once X is reinstalled; Both
the ati and r128 (Rage128) drivers have failed me miserably, as has ATI >:(

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Peter Leftwich
President & Founder
Video2Video Services
Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
+1-413-403-9555


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