Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:54:49 -0700 From: John Hein <jhein@timing.com> To: "Laurent Grangeau" <thorzero@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: xorg-7.3_1 Message-ID: <18384.23065.702773.911024@gromit.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <1bf0a5b00803061145t2af77050y5485d0e58504a6b4@mail.gmail.com> References: <1bf0a5b00803061145t2af77050y5485d0e58504a6b4@mail.gmail.com>
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Laurent Grangeau wrote at 20:45 +0100 on Mar 6, 2008: > Hi there ! > > I've been using FreeBSD now for 4 months and it's a great OS. But is there a > way to install minimal Xorg server without installing the meta-port (and > thus, without all of the drivers) ? > > I'm using portinstall as the installer and I've been able to install > completely xorg-xserver and nvidia-driver until now, but I'm not able tu > launch the "startx" script. Where is that damned script (I mean, in which > package) ? > > I'm running minimal install of FreeBSD 7.0. You don't have to install the x11/xorg metaport. If you look in x11/xorg/Makefile, you can see the pieces it installs. For a semi-minimal X, you probably want xorg-protos, xorg-libraries, xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps, xorg-server and your driver. You probably don't need everything in xorg-apps (who uses xmore?), nor, of course, everthing in xorg-drivers. In xorg-apps, xterm & xinit are pretty basic. At one point there was talk of an xorg-lite metaport, but I don't know of anything that actually exists. startx is in the xinit port that is installed as part of xorg-apps.
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