On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:06:51 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello,all: > > Here are my specifics: > > 4.5R FreeBSD > 3.2 GB Fujitsu > ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro (AGP) > > First, my research (and the help of others) has revealed that XFree86- > 4.2.0 is the first version of X to support the aforementioned graphics > adapter. So, I've been removing the default XFree86-4 directory from > /usr/ports/x11, then unpacking the new tarball and installing from the > new XFree86-4 dir that is created. I have tried this 7 times now, > with virtually the same results. The make goes fine, but after 'make > install', after awhile I get a message that it cannot build > .........../encodings.dir (something to do with fonts). Are there any > tricks to making this port install "correctly"? Does X4.1.0 support > the Rage 128 Pro chipset? Any other insights?
I'm not sure I'm following you here. I think you're saying you installed XFree86 version 4.x from the ports, but the port hasn't been updated to 4.2.0, so you got 4.1.0. Since it doesn't work at all, you may as well "rm -rf /usr/X11R6/*". May as well "rm -rf /etc/X11/*" as well. Do you insist on building it yourself from sources? Much quicker and easier to install the binaries. To install 4.2.0 from binaries, create a temp directory and fetch ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.0/binaries/FreeBSD-4.x.tar into it and untar that, so it looks like the directory on the ftp server (you've probably already done this). It's about 65 Megabytes, and it needs to all be in one directory. Read the README and Install files. Then, as root, "sh ./Xinstall.sh" in that directory, answer a number of questions (they should be easy and obvious), and it's done. On the other hand, there may be a FreeBSD package available by now, and you can just "pkg_add -r XFree86-4" (check the name. But you'll need to check if it's available at all. It wasn't when I looked, but that was weeks ago). -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
