Date: 24 Mar 2003 23:55:22 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Tim Showalter <tjs@psaux.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: confusion about xscreensaver-gnome Message-ID: <1048568121.18180.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <emacs-28583-15999-56873-234489@funhouse.mirapoint.com> References: <emacs-28583-15999-56873-234489@funhouse.mirapoint.com>
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--=-sskFZQyu7966tI+ur4WH Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 23:42, Tim Showalter wrote: > I have some questions about this port. I'd like to run 4.09 instead of > the currently ported 4.08, but I'm having some problems doing so. I > can't get things to play nicely. >=20 > I'm running FreeBSD 4.5, and have upgraded things piecemeal so many > times it's quite likely I have introduced problems. FreeBSD 4.5 is no longer supported. You should upgrade to at least 4.6. This is documented at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/. >=20 > I have three problems: >=20 > (1) xscreensaver works okay but the gnome startup sequence hangs if my > built-from-source version is installed but not if the /usr/ports > version is installed. I'd like to understand why. I assume I'm not > including enough of the options that ports supplies but it looks > like jwz's verion should "just work", and I'd like to help fix that. You might try patching the port to 4.09, and see if that helps.=20 However, since you're running 4.5, there is no guarantee it will work.=20 It certainly hasn't been tested. >=20 > (2) I don't understand some of the patches and I suspect they're > obsolete. (Configuring datadir is redundant in one of the > Makefiles; --without-gnome is the default if GNOME 2.x exists on the > system anyway; etc.) I'd like to help either get rid of these so > the upstream version works better, or otherwise try and get them > merged in. Then submit patches. >=20 > (3) some (new) hacks in 4.09 crash where similar hacks in 4.08 don't. > I'd like to upgrade and get everything else working before I try and > find the culprit (based on a backtrace, jwz blames Mesa but I don't > have a way to substantiate that yet, and the behavior of some hacks > between the 4.08 and 4.09 versions differs but I can't understand > why). >=20 > I suspect gnome@freebsd.org is a mailing list, but I can't figure out > where such a list would exist. If it is, and I should be subscribed to > it to talk about this, please let me know. freebsd-gnome@ is a mailing list. You're free to join if you'd like.=20 You can read more about the project at the above-mentioned URL. Joe >=20 > Thanks! >=20 > Tim >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-sskFZQyu7966tI+ur4WH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+f+E5b2iPiv4Uz4cRArnpAJ4m2xyj+DRnm1bxnrYQFxhMkW72zwCgmxIe L1YX1l3tikgi5kdUu8nnXK8= =IJFT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-sskFZQyu7966tI+ur4WH-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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