Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 08:12:41 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: Ryan Li <ryan@duli.fsnet.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New version of XFree86 Message-ID: <20010319081240.A20405@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20010318172915.A16395@northernbrewer.com> References: <000501c1cec6$a287a690$112e893e@slatch> <20010318172915.A16395@northernbrewer.com>
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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
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