Xorg Problems

Marc Fonvieille blackend at freebsd.org
Thu Aug 26 13:37:38 UTC 2010


On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 07:17:48AM -0700, Fred Boatwright wrote:
> > 
> > For x11/xorg-minimal installation you issued the command:
> > 
> > "make install" or "make install VIDEO_DRIVER=your_video_driver" ?
> > 
> > Without the mention of the driver it installs the vesa driver only.
> > This is sub-optimal, an options screen with all existing drivers should
> > be proposed.
> > 
> > --
> > Marc
> 
> I used make install as I had no way of knowing that additional drivers
> could be selected.  Perhaps that should be an option to the sysinstall
> program when FBSD is initially being installed.
>

Yes, people can't guess what are the names of the drivers, it's in my
opinion a problem for this port.  I Cced the maintainer.

-- 
Marc


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