the xorg-7.7_3 package will not run on a blank system

[Kevin Oberman]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 11:28 PM Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd at daemonic.se>
wrote:

> On 2021-01-11 22:15, doug wrote:
> > I updated a Lenovo ideapad 700 from 11.3 --> 12.2. With only the xorg
> > package installed, it fails as shown below.
> >
> >> startx
> > xauth:  file /root/.serverauth.5930 does not exist
> >
>
> It is documented here
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
> , under 5.4.5, that you also need to install drm-kmod.  Currently, due
> to how packages are built, if you are running FreeBSD 12.2, you need to
> build it from ports.  Once the package build cluster is also updated to
> 12.2, that need goes away.
>
> Regards
> --
> Niclas


One small caveat: You must have the kernel sources for the kernel you are
booting in /usr/src/. If you are running 12.2-RELEASE.
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