From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 26 18:31: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C1814EC2 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 18:30:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id DAA28483 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 03:30:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA13697 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 00:58:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Problems in X and ports Date: 27 Nov 1999 00:58:18 +0100 Message-ID: <81n6qq$dbm$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <19991126145530.A22420@office.ompages.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Puri wrote: > 1. When I do a 'make' in a ports directory, it attempts to download software > but *never* finds it, not for a single port, and tells me to download it > manually and put it in distfiles/. Are you sure it doesn't find them? What are the exact error messages? Or are you trying to do this as a normal user? By default, distfiles are fetched to /usr/ports/distfiles, which is only writable for root. > 2. When I run X, everything looks fine, except for when I do opaque moves in > my windowmanager (wmaker) or scroll up or down in an application. It's > damn slow and choppy. Again, why? What do I fix and how? In order for somebody to help you with that, you'll need to provide which graphics hardware you are using and what X server you are running on it. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message