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Beattie
06-12-2002, 08:07 AM
I decided to try freebsd to see what it had to offer but I was stopped rather quickly when I tried to install X. I ran through the installer without a problem and declined to install any packages from there in favor of doing it by hand (and because I wanted X 4.1.0 and not 3.3.6 which is what is installed by default) so anyway, the installer finishes and I log in as root, cd to /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 and type make install. It says it fetches some files from some server and then starts extract, and ask me some questions and it runs a script that looks like it compiles it, but then it just stops... it gives me a list of directories with some error after each one (I think it said something like "error code 1"). What's wrong and how do I make it work?
jaygee432
06-12-2002, 09:56 AM
If you don't get the help you need here, you might try www.freebsdforums.org (http://www.freebsdforums.org) . Anyhow, I suggest you install all the packages you want with the installer, then configure X after everything else looks right to that point. I went ahead with the default version of xfree86, and it does all I need it to. I found it handiest to do xf86config first, and accept all the default resolutions. That got me into X, though crappy, where I could go to Failsafe and run XF86Setup to get the resulutions just how I wanted them.
FoBoT
06-12-2002, 10:31 AM
moving to the *BSD forum
xulfralos
07-06-2002, 12:58 PM
How about listing the errors instead of us assuming what they are?
NMI (Need More Info)
X is not that hard to configure in FreeBSD...
3.3.6 is a snap, 4.x.x is somewhat harder.
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If 3.3.6 is the version on your FBSD install, you're using an out-of-date FBSD release and I suggest you get the latest release, which at this point is 4.6.
X 4.2.0 is the default version on the current release.
At this point, if you really can't / don't want to get the latest version, you might try looking on FBSD's site for X 4 packages that may be available for your FBSD release.
prince_kenshi
07-11-2002, 01:03 AM
Funny., I've never had a problem compiling X, just configuring it. Perhaps you should install it by package instead of port.