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Date:      Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:55:05 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        glenn gombert <glenngombert@zdnetonebox.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Version of XFree86 in FreeBSD Release 4.4
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20010919105505.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20010918172055.BSRJ12461.mta11.onebox.com@onebox.com>

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On 18-Sep-2001 glenn gombert wrote:
>   My interest in a later version of XFree86 is that in trying to install
>  FreeBSD-Current on my Dell Insperion 4000e Laptop, the ATI Rage 128 3D
>  graphics accelerator used is not supported at all under XFree86 3.3.6.
>  So I am forced to upgrade to a later version of XFree86 to get 'X' to
>  work at all....
>  
>   Can someone outline the easiest way to do that given how things are
>  in the FreeBSD-4.3 Release??

Install the base OS, then build X from ports, or fetch the X4 package.

Then start building packages that require X..

(Adding packages will fail because they all want X3, so you have to use ports)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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