Need latest xorg

Dennis Glatting dg at pki2.com
Wed Jun 20 13:22:15 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 08:02 -0400, Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote:
> Hi FreeBSD -
> 
> I have an AMD HD 7950 video card so I am trying to install the latest  
> FreeBSD xorg available (7.5.2) for an updated driver.
> 

Please let me know how well this (or doesn't) works. I have been looking
at the 7970 series to screw around with CUDA but also as a multi-monitor
card.




> When I start make the install immediately stops at MesaLib-7.6.1.tar.gz.   
> I can restart it on a primary using the location given then after a short  
> time the install stops at /x11/9menu  (/9menu-1.8.shar.gz)  I can also  
> attempt to restart this on a couple of servers but after a trip around the  
> world my install still stops at /x11/9menu
> 
> I live in Maine (USA) so I pick the MIT primary ftp5 since I inadvertly  
> determined it was MIT.  ftp1 also sends me on a trip around the world with  
> the same result.
> 
> If I can install xorg-7.5.2 I am hoping then that the install of  
> kde4-4.8.4 will complete on this new install of FreeBSD 9.0
> 
> Does anyone else have a favorite ftp that cooperates?  (And I notice the  
> location in the server is different from the primaries on other servers?)
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 

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Dennis Glatting <dg at pki2.com>



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