I am trying to get X up and running on a Dell Latitude C600 running FreeBSD 4.7 as part of a school project. I can't seem to get X 3.X to recognize my video card (an ATI Mobility 3), and the best I can seem to get is a 300x200 window in the middle of my screen, so I thought I would install X-4 and hope for the best.
Unfortunately, the install for X-4 keeps failing, saying that things are already defined, etc (I have included a copy of the "make install" output for your perusal and edification). I thought that the problem might just be a previously installed X 3, and so tried to deinstall it first, but it failed as well. Any advice on how to either get the server up and running with 3.x OR on how to get X-4 properly installed (I suspect it would help) would be greatly appreciated. I have been banging my head against this for over a week, and have had no luck with the newbie list over at XFree86.org. I will be more than happy to send any additional information on request. Gracias Ian
===> Extracting for XFree86-4.2.0_1,1 >> No MD5 checksum file. ===> XFree86-4.2.0_1,1 depends on shared library: Xft.1 - not found ===> Verifying install for Xft.1 in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries ===> Configuring for XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_3 cp: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/version.def: No such file or directory cd ./config/imake && make -D INSTALLS_DEPENDS -f Makefile.ini BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS="" CC="cc" making imake with BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS= in config/imake `imake' is up to date. rm -f ./config/makedepend/Makefile.proto ./config/imake/imake -I./config/cf -s ./config/makedepend/Makefile.proto -f ./config/makedepend/Imakefile -DTOPDIR=../.. -DCURDIR=./config/makedepend In file included from config/cf/site.def:58, from config/cf/Imake.tmpl:45, from Imakefile.c:14: config/cf/xf86site.def:653: warning: `InstallXdmConfig' redefined config/cf/host.def:5: warning: this is the location of the previous definition config/cf/xf86site.def:654: warning: `InstallXinitConfig' redefined config/cf/host.def:6: warning: this is the location of the previous definition config/cf/xf86site.def:655: warning: `InstallFSConfig' redefined config/cf/host.def:7: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from config/cf/FreeBSD.cf:577, from config/cf/Imake.tmpl:94, from Imakefile.c:14: config/cf/xfree86.cf:14: version.def: No such file or directory In file included from config/cf/site.def:158, from config/cf/Imake.tmpl:100, from Imakefile.c:14: config/cf/host.def:5: warning: `InstallXdmConfig' redefined config/cf/xf86site.def:653: warning: this is the location of the previous definition config/cf/host.def:6: warning: `InstallXinitConfig' redefined config/cf/xf86site.def:654: warning: this is the location of the previous definition config/cf/host.def:7: warning: `InstallFSConfig' redefined config/cf/xf86site.def:659: warning: this is the location of the previous definition config/cf/host.def:10: warning: `BuildFontServer' redefined config/cf/xf86site.def:657: warning: this is the location of the previous definition ./config/imake/imake: Exit code 1. Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries/work/xc. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4.