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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFree86 Date: 29 Oct 1996 21:21:51 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <555shf$621@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <slrn570hee.aj.jason@r33h77.res.gatech.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jason@r33h77.res.gatech.edu (Jason Bennett) wrote: > I'm trying to load XFree86, and it's giving me trouble. I > initially told BSD to load the XUser source - thus not registering X > as existing. I then, after upgrading my ports, decided to install X > again, with a newer version. This install failed, during the series of > ln's and rm's, saying it couldn't deal with one of the files. Sounds confusing. > Question: Can I just d/l X from the source, or do I need the > BSD patches? You can compile it from the source if you want. FreeBSD is one of the various supported platforms of XFree86. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)