From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 6:58:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D28B3DDA for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 06:58:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA44078 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 15:58:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA44732 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 15:58:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA09961 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 15:58:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 15:58:17 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Installing XFree86 from ports Message-ID: <20000202155817.A9830@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just for fun I thought I should make the upgrade to 3.3.6 of XFree86 by using the ports. I don't think I'll do tht again, since when doing it that way XFree86 doesn't work as when installing from the binaries found in the distribution. I get an error when trying startx, saying that maybe I'm not the owner of the console and then the system tries to call some function in X which is unreachable and then finally gives up. Reinstallation from all the .tgz files fetched from XFree86 fixed the whole thing, but it is a bit annoying that the ports installation does something to the rights to run X. -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message