Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 - Nightmare on Elm Street Up_1

2005-06-18 Thread Everett Batey
Greg .. Right THEY (pkg_add, _delete, _info) are my friends.. Kent .. Could NOT find how to get XFree86-4.5.0,1 .. so Thought I was doing pretty good grepping out all the pkg_info refering xorg, 6.8.2 also, and pkg_delete -d-r each_found Then after editing the /etc/make.conf file to

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 - Nightmare on Elm Street Up_1

2005-06-18 Thread Mark Frank
* On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 07:52:31AM -0700 Everett Batey wrote: Then after editing the /etc/make.conf file to point back to the much more mature XFree86 .. What EVER POSSESSED us to make Xorg a default without warning, mentioning it DOES NOT understand some MODERN, POPULAR, DRIVERS, eg

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4

2005-06-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/17/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, 17 June 2005 at 19:53:50 -0700, Everett Batey wrote: [snipped] That runs fine with my KM3M-V on board video .. Interesting. In general Xorg seems to work better. The problem he is having is that the via xorg driver

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 - Nightmare on Elm Street Up_1

2005-06-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/18/05, Mark Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 07:52:31AM -0700 Everett Batey wrote: Then after editing the /etc/make.conf file to point back to the much more mature XFree86 .. What EVER POSSESSED us to make Xorg a default without warning, mentioning it DOES

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4

2005-06-18 Thread Everett Batey
Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. ALSO replied .. I should forget XFree86 and move smartly over to X.org .. YES .. Only If I DO NOT WANT to use any X-windows on either of the last two MoBos I have fooled with this month. Nikolas , I have no idea of where I would find an X.org based Linux

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 - Nightmare on Elm Street Up_1

2005-06-18 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 6/18/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The only one I can think of right now that uses XFree86 is debian, knoppix is based on debian. Why on earth does debian 3.1 still use the 2.4 kernel? ... I know this is not a Debian-support forum, but you can select 2.6 kernel in Debian

Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4

2005-06-17 Thread Everett Batey
Two weeks of fighting with Xorg on FreeBSD_4 .. CAN ANYONE tell me the steps for hopefully deleting Xorg and replacing with XFree86_4. That runs fine with my KM3M-V on board video .. PLEASE, I hate to think of leaving BSD after this many years on my servers. Thank you -- Ev Batey

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4

2005-06-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 17 June 2005 at 19:53:50 -0700, Everett Batey wrote: Two weeks of fighting with Xorg on FreeBSD_4 .. CAN ANYONE tell me the steps for hopefully deleting Xorg and replacing with XFree86_4. pkg_delete and pkg_add should be your friends. You're liable to find it hard going if

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4

2005-06-17 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 17 June 2005 07:53 pm, Everett Batey wrote: Two weeks of fighting with Xorg on FreeBSD_4 .. CAN ANYONE tell me the steps for hopefully deleting Xorg and replacing with XFree86_4. That runs fine with my KM3M-V on board video .. PLEASE, I hate to think of leaving BSD after

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4

2005-06-17 Thread Lars Kristiansen
--On Friday, June 17, 2005 08:09:23 PM -0700 Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 17 June 2005 07:53 pm, Everett Batey wrote: Two weeks of fighting with Xorg on FreeBSD_4 .. CAN ANYONE tell me the steps for hopefully deleting Xorg and replacing with XFree86_4. If you read