On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 03:43:53PM -0600, Keith Seyffarth wrote: > > > As i said the packages worked for me. Blow away the xfce and xorg ports > > and do the xorg mega package and the xfce mega package. if that fails > > then bkup your user data and install a clean virgin version of 7.1 and > > the xorg and xfce packages. > > It looks like this was a step in the WRONG direction. Having removed > XORG, it won't install. It appears that xorg requires xorg-drivers > (understandable), and xorg-drivers requires xf86-video-via (OK), and > xf86-video-via requires a PCI Video Card to be installed.
xorg-drivers requires the drivers it has been configured to depend on, which does not necessarily include xf86-video-via. Go to the xorg-drivers port and do a 'make config' to change which drivers it will depend on. > > make clean install -k in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers will make > xorg-drivers install, but make clean install -k in x11/xorg won't > install because xf86-video-via is ignored. > > Anyone have another suggestion? At this point, I need to get X > installed so I can even consider a window manager. > > Keith S. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
