Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:36:40 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Theodore D. Sternberg" <strnbrg@trhj.homeunix.net> Subject: Re: 5.3: want to install XFree86 Message-ID: <200412262136.41055.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20041226212114.K81983@trhj.homeunix.net> References: <mailman.3496.1104124273.8172.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20041226212114.K81983@trhj.homeunix.net>
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On Sunday 26 December 2004 09:31 pm, Theodore D. Sternberg wrote: > I've had it with Xorg and would like to go back to XFree86. > Unfortunately, when I go to /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 and type "make", > it doesn't do anything; it just gives me this message... > > ===> XFree86-4.4.0_1,1 is part of XFree86-4. > > and exits. > > XFree86 was giving me everything I needed, back under FreeBSD 5.1. > Xorg, in contrast, is one huge hassle. "Xorg -config" produces an > xorg.conf.new file that doesn't work (I have ATI Rage 128). Then, > reading some of the traffic on this mailing list I see talk about > preloading AGP and ATI from /boot/loaders.conf, and I know I'd be > getting in way too deep if I did that. > > To further confirm my ignorance, I'll ask this: what exactly is Xorg? > Is it just a different X server (and associated configuration > tools)? Or is it something more broad-based than that? As I understand it, Xorg is the follow on to XFree86. You can read about it at X.org. The new versions will be Xorg. FWIW, I still use XF86Config. I may have had to tweak the video card but that was it. I use xdb to switch between en/es and that works on 5.3 but xorg on 4.x doesn't switch. > > If I succeed in building an XFree86 server, can I just make the > appropriate symlink -- /usr/X11R6/bin/X --, install my old > XFree86.conf file in /etc/X11, and run with that? Or is it going to > be more complicated? You have to change /etc/make.conf to include X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4 You have to remember that any packages you downloade for 5.x will want xorg instead of XFree86. Kent > > Ted Sternberg > Fremont, California > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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