Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:19:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Keith Seyffarth <weif@weif.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903141611490.50537@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20090314214353.54DFEA2786@maxine.cjones.org> References: <20090313154130.3D96EA26DB@maxine.cjones.org> <49BA87D5.3080000@gmail.com> <20090313204825.E64BCA2718@maxine.cjones.org> <49BACEF0.8070905@gmail.com> <20090313223308.3B98CA2723@maxine.cjones.org> <49BAE3C0.9090000@gmail.com> <20090314043421.12C61A24F7@maxine.cjones.org> <49BB4762.7020405@a1poweruser.com> <20090314064658.1F188A25F3@maxine.cjones.org> <49BB57EF.2060303@a1poweruser.com> <20090314214353.54DFEA2786@maxine.cjones.org>
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On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Keith Seyffarth wrote: > >> As i said the packages worked for me. Blow away the xfce and xorg ports >> and do the xorg mega package and the xfce mega package. if that fails >> then bkup your user data and install a clean virgin version of 7.1 and >> the xorg and xfce packages. > > It looks like this was a step in the WRONG direction. Having removed > XORG, it won't install. It appears that xorg requires xorg-drivers > (understandable), and xorg-drivers requires xf86-video-via (OK), and > xf86-video-via requires a PCI Video Card to be installed. > > make clean install -k in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers will make > xorg-drivers install, but make clean install -k in x11/xorg won't > install because xf86-video-via is ignored. That -k option to make is unnecessary and possibly bad. Stop using it for now. cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg make clean make config-recursive (choose configuration for everything) make install > Anyone have another suggestion? At this point, I need to get X > installed so I can even consider a window manager. Instead of waiting for the ports to build, install the package: pkg_add -r xorg -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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