Upgrading X Issue

[Frank Griffith]

Okay thanks very much, that advice got me a little further along in the process...BUT
   
  and why does everyone always have to have a big BUT....
   
  I got the libdrm updated and then tried to build xorg again. It crashed again on dri, so I did a
   
  rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work/
   
  and then tried it again. The build of xorg then comleted after about 30 minutes. But when I tried to startx it crashed. There was something in the error messages about my /etc/X11/xorg.conf so I erased it as well as my /root/xorg.conf.new and then did
   
  Xorg -configure
   
  I was then able to startx but there is no window manger running. I was running the old xterm with the little green and white windows....I know I'm a real simpleton but I kind of like that simple little interface and was going to wait until I got some other things up and running before moving to Gnome or KDE or another window manager.
   
  So can you please help me with what I need to do to assign a window manager to run when startx is run? Thanks again. Your assistance is appreciated.
  

Jung-uk Kim <jkim at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
  On Wednesday 08 August 2007 07:41 pm, Frank Griffith wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I'm not really a newbie but please remember
> that I'm still a novice at this. Anyway here is what I hope you
> need to assist my attempts at upgrading xorg.
>
> I went back to the /usr/ports/x11/xorg directory and did a make
> install clean but it crashed immediately with only a few error
> lines regarding dri again. So I then did a rm -rf
> /usr/ports/*/*/work and then did another make install clean. It ran
> for several minutes and then crashed at the dri build again. Here
> are as many of the lines as I could copy from the crash

Your libdrm is out of date. Please update ports/graphics/libdrm and 
try again.

Jung-uk Kim


       
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