issues in XFCE 4.6

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Keith Seyffarth wrote:

>> cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg
>> make config-recursive
>> (choose configuration for everything)
>
> Should there have been some kind of user interaction here? A series of
> questions? A screen with boxes to X for different options? What I got
> was:
>
> # make config-recursive
> ===> Setting user-specified options for xorg-7.4 and dependencies
> #
>
> It took about 5 minutes, but there was no prompt for input...

Sorry, should have had you do rmconfig-recursive first.  There's a 
bigger problem, though:

>> Instead of waiting for the ports to build, install the package:
>>
>> pkg_add -r xorg
>
> That's not working either:
>
> # pkg_add xorg
> pkg_add: can't stat package file 'xorg'
> # pkg_add -r xorg
> Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/Latest/xorg.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/Latest/xorg.tbz' by URL

Are you running FreeBSD 6.0?  I don't know if xorg-7.4 will work or even 
build with that.  You may have to upgrade to 7.1-release or -stable 
before going on.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA