Freebsd 5.4 cannot fetch xfree86?

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Mon Jun 27 08:40:12 GMT 2005


Dejan Lesjak wrote:

>On Monday 27 of June 2005 10:32, you wrote:
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>>Dejan Lesjak wrote:
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>>>perikillo wrote:
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>>>> Hi to all.
>>>>   I install freebsd 5.4 Release, with xorg i have problems with my
>>>>kbd, and i decide to install the old friend XFree86-4, i read the
>>>>handbook about, the example say:
>>>>test# pkg_add -r XFree86
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Packages are only being built for default X - that is for XFree86 on
>>>FreeBSD 4.x and for Xorg on FreeBSD 5.x. If you want XFree86-4 you will
>>>need to build it from ports and set X_WINDOW_SYSTEM knob appropriately
>>>(see FAQ:
>>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#XFREE86-VERSI
>>>ON).
>>>
>>>What kind of problem do you have with keyboard?
>>>
>>>Dejan
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>>    As mentioned earlier today, XFree86 project support is essentially
>>being phased out of many open source OSes since many of the devs from
>>XFree86 went to the Xorg project over what I believe was licensing issues.
>>    In terms of the keyboard, check the actual module name since they
>>changed it in Xorg (either kbd -> keyboard or keyboard -> kbd). That
>>hung me up for a while in Gentoo.
>>-Garrett
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>Erm, yes, thanks. I believe you wanted to tell that to original poster 
>(perikillo <perikillo at gmail.com>) instead of to me :)
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>Dejan
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Ah, shoot yes. Sorry for the unnecessary email.


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