From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 19 6:12:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8188837B718 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 06:12:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpoland@execpc.com) Received: from earth.execpc.com (dpoland@earth.execpc.com [169.207.16.1]) by out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2JECfN58079; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 08:12:41 -0600 (CST) Received: (from dpoland@localhost) by earth.execpc.com (8.9.0) id IAA20968; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 08:12:41 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 08:12:41 -0600 From: Doug Poland To: Christopher Farley Cc: Ryan Li , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New version of XFree86 Message-ID: <20010319081240.A20405@polands.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Ryan Li , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000501c1cec6$a287a690$112e893e@slatch> <20010318172915.A16395@northernbrewer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3us In-Reply-To: <20010318172915.A16395@northernbrewer.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:29:17PM -0600, 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. > If I may ask and not be too far off-topic, what are the benefits of XFree86 4.x over 3.X? Can one have both installed and usable on the same system at the same time? -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message