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Date:      Mon, 7 May 2001 11:39:30 -0400
From:      Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com>
To:        David Huff <david@ti.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 4.0 for Dummies ?
Message-ID:  <20010507113929.C777@guinness.osdn.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010507085825.B11494@armadillo.itg.ti.com>

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On Mon, 07 May 2001 at 08:58:25 -0500, David Huff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to get X working under FreeBSD 4.3 on my newly built system:
> 
> Asus A7Pro mainboard (VIA KT133 chipset)
> AMD Duron 850
> 256 Mb PC133 memory
> ATI Radeon 32 Mb DDR AGP card
> 
> From my examination of the FreeBSD 4.3 CD I burned from the ISO image,
> it looks like it ships with XFree86 3.3.x, and I need at least release
> 4.0.2 for my Radeon.
> 
> I've looked at the binary packages under:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.3-release
> 
> and can't determine just which I should download. Would someone be so
> kind as to list the packages I'd need ? I'd assume at least one from
> .../x11-servers + perhaps a lib dependency or two ? 
> 
> Once I have pkg_add-ed what I need, could someone let me know what the
> XFree86 4.0.x version of /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config is ? I've
> configured XFree86 3.3.x a number of times with various tools, but
> have never touched 4.0.x until now :)

You're making this much more difficult than it needs to be.  All you
have to do is install the X 4 port:

   # cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4
   # make install distclean

See http://www.freebsdzine.org/200101/x4.php3 for more details (it was
written for X 4.0.2, but applies to 4.0.3 as well).

- jim

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