Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:49:16 +0200 From: Firas Kraiem <fkraiem@free.fr> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, tundra@tundraware.com Subject: Re: Problems With xorg 7.2 Message-ID: <200705291349.16545.fkraiem@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <465BB6AA.5070001@tundraware.com> References: <465BB6AA.5070001@tundraware.com>
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On Tuesday 29 May 2007 07:14:18 Tim Daneliuk wrote: > System: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386 SMP > MOBO: Intel 946GZIS + 3.2Ghz Pentium D + 2G memory > > I just finally managed to muddle through the upgrade to xorg 7.2. > (Though not noted in the docs in /usr/ports/UPDATING, I had to > do a 'make install' for /usr/ports/x11/xorg to get the installation > to complete after the upgrade. Without this step, I had no video, > mouse, or keyboard drivers. I had installed X originally from the > 6.2-RELEASE CD so I guess I assumed - wrongly - that the upgrade > would pickup everything needed. Is this normal or did I miss a > step somewhere along the way?) Well, unless I'm terribly mistaken, this _is_ mentioned in UPDATING : "Make sure you have the x11/xorg meta-port installed." > Three problems remain: > > 1) After doing the portupgrades as explained in the doc, I ran it > one last time to make sure all was well and saw this: > > Stale dependency: xf86-input-acecad-1.1.0 --> xkeyboard-config-0.9_2 > -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. > > Is this significant and/or what causes it/fixes it? I am new > to portupgrade, having always done this sort of thing by hand > in the past. When this happens to me, I just run pkgdb -F as suggested and it installs the missing dependency with no problems. Afraid I can't help you with your other problems, I use the nvidia driver and it works perfectly here. Firas
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