Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:29:42 -0700 From: Maurice <mauduro@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install of xfce4 from ports collection on FreeBSD 6.1 failed - Maurice Message-ID: <d3e0b6a00911290929o51409f94tdfd6e8e75629ad89@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911251323380.59021@wonkity.com> References: <d3e0b6a00911251020x27d441f0l939937363fbf9e5f@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911251323380.59021@wonkity.com>
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Gentlemen, Thank you very much for your input. The only reason I have chosen FreeBSD 6.1 is because I am installing on a Rocketraid 1520 Raid controller and 6.1 is the latest version of FreeBSD that they had a driver module for. If there was a way around this limitation I would take it (I suppose I could buy a newer raid controller, but this was already the 3rd one I tried and chose it because it is an older model, just as my PC is...) In any case, building a driver module myself, I am afraid is beyond my current skill set, though I don't even really know how difficult that would be. The first thing I did after installing the kernel was fetch an updated version of the ports, so this is an inconsistancy between the kernel version and the ports. The version of the libdrm port under /usr/ports/graphics/ is 2.4.12. I am going to be using this box as a webserver, so I would like to go with that most stable solution to this. Should I try with version 2.4.12? Are there other lightwieght desktop environments that do not have a libdrm dependency? Do you think a 6.1 rocketraid driver module would work just as well with FreeBSD 7.2 or 8? Can this driver compatibility issue be resolved some how by building a custom kernel? thanks again for your help! Maurice Durocherb On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Maurice wrote: > > When installing xfce4 on a fairly clean install of FreeBSD 6.1, it errored >> out with the following: >> >> >> checking pkg-config files for X11 are available... yes >> checking for LIBDRM... configure: error: Package requirements (libdrm >= >> 2.4.3) were not met: >> >> Requested 'libdrm >= 2.4.3' but version of libdrm is 2.0 >> > > There's the problem. That's /usr/ports/graphics/libdrm, and it needs to be > updated. Additionally, I'm not sure how well the current version works on > 6.1, which is nearly four years old. > > If you're starting fresh, it'll be easier to just install FreeBSD 8, update > the ports tree, and install xfce4 from there. > > (Yes, FreeBSD 8 is prerelease at the moment. For desktop use with xfce4, > I'd still pick it over 7.2-RELEASE.) > > If you really want to stick with 6.1, then... it's going to be a lot of > work. You have some very old ports on there, and the interdependencies can > be tricky. It may be easiest to just deinstall all the ports ([warning!] > pkg_delete -a), update the ports tree with csup or portsnap, and start > installing the new versions. > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA >
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