X11 / XFree86 Installation

Teo De Las Heras teoheras at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 01:49:41 GMT 2005


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 at 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
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> Thanks,
> 
> Bryan
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