Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 - Nightmare on Elm Street Up_1

2005-06-18 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 6/18/05, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > The only one I can think of right now that uses XFree86 is debian, > knoppix is based on debian. Why on earth does debian 3.1 still use the > 2.4 kernel? ... I know this is not a Debian-support forum, but you can select 2.6 kernel in Deb

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4

2005-06-18 Thread Everett Batey
Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .. ALSO replied .. I should forget XFree86 and move smartly over to X.org .. YES .. Only If I DO NOT WANT to use any X-windows on either of the last two MoBos I have fooled with this month. Nikolas , I have no idea of where I would find an X.org based Linux

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 - Nightmare on Elm Street Up_1

2005-06-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/18/05, Mark Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 07:52:31AM -0700 Everett Batey wrote: > > > > Then after editing the /etc/make.conf file to point back to the > > much more mature XFree86 .. What EVER POSSESSED us > > to make Xorg a default without warning, mentioning

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4

2005-06-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/17/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, 17 June 2005 at 19:53:50 -0700, Everett Batey wrote: [snipped] > > > That runs fine with my KM3M-V on board video .. > > Interesting. In general Xorg seems to work better. The problem he is having is that the "via" xorg d

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 - Nightmare on Elm Street Up_1

2005-06-18 Thread Mark Frank
* On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 07:52:31AM -0700 Everett Batey wrote: > > Then after editing the /etc/make.conf file to point back to the > much more mature XFree86 .. What EVER POSSESSED us > to make Xorg a default without warning, mentioning it DOES NOT > understand some MODERN, POPULAR, DRIVERS, e

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 - Nightmare on Elm Street Up_1

2005-06-18 Thread Everett Batey
Greg .. Right THEY (pkg_add, _delete, _info) are my friends.. Kent .. Could NOT find how to get XFree86-4.5.0,1 .. so Thought I was doing pretty good grepping out all the pkg_info refering xorg, 6.8.2 also, and pkg_delete -d-r each_found Then after editing the /etc/make.conf file to point

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4

2005-06-17 Thread Lars Kristiansen
--On Friday, June 17, 2005 08:09:23 PM -0700 Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 17 June 2005 07:53 pm, Everett Batey wrote: Two weeks of fighting with Xorg on FreeBSD_4 .. CAN ANYONE tell me the steps for hopefully deleting Xorg and replacing with XFree86_4. If you rea

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4

2005-06-17 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 17 June 2005 07:53 pm, Everett Batey wrote: > Two weeks of fighting with Xorg on FreeBSD_4 .. > > CAN ANYONE tell me the steps for hopefully > deleting Xorg and > replacing with XFree86_4. > That runs fine with my KM3M-V on board video .. > > PLEASE, I hate to think of leaving BSD af

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4

2005-06-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 17 June 2005 at 19:53:50 -0700, Everett Batey wrote: > Two weeks of fighting with Xorg on FreeBSD_4 .. > > CAN ANYONE tell me the steps for hopefully > deleting Xorg and > replacing with XFree86_4. pkg_delete and pkg_add should be your friends. You're liable to find it hard going i