Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:49:40 -0400 From: Teo De Las Heras <teoheras@gmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11 / XFree86 Installation Message-ID: <d9d7f5a05080718495edd508c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200508071622.36367.bryan.maynard@reallm.com> References: <d9d7f5a050807085518fc4f8a@mail.gmail.com> <200508071622.36367.bryan.maynard@reallm.com>
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O.K. I'm now in the process of installing Xorg from the ports that are included in FreeBSD 5.3. About half way through I am getting a message that libXft-2.1.6.tar.gz is not available. I have tried to download it to the distfiles directory from various FTP site the when I run make I get checksum errors. Teo On 8/7/05, Bryan Maynard <bryan.maynard@reallm.com> wrote: > On Sunday 07 August 2005 03:55 pm, Teo De Las Heras wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have successfully installed FreeBSD 5 but I did not add the X Window > >System to the list of installed items because I wanted to try and > >install the packages myself. I can see that I have X11 available with > >my ports. Make install clean runs successfully but XFree86 -configure > >does not. Also, my motherboard has PCI-X. Would this keep me from > >running the X config? I've downloaded and installed the new NVidia > >drivers. >=20 > Xorg has replaced XFree86 as the window manager for FreeBSD as well as > most Linux distros. Xorg is a newer version of XFee86. I would check > out X.org for a little info. The process for setting up Xorg is mostly > the same as for XFree86, you just replace XFree86 with Xorg wherever > needed. It's been a while since I installed Xorg, but I believe the > handbook (at freebsd.org) has instructions for both XFree86 and Xorg > setup and configuration. >=20 > >freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > Bryan > -- > Open Source: by the people, for the people. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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