How to install xorg on 10.0 Release

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robspop

I have configured pkg (correctly as far as I know) and have tried to install xorg using it. I get this error message:

pkg: No packages matching 'xorg' available in the repositories

I have looked in the package repository and, indeed, there no longer appears to be an xorg package. Is xorg-apps the package I need?
 
Beastie said:
I'd rely on the RELEASE repository for the time being.
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Everyone just remember that those packages will not be safe to use after a couple of months because they won't be updated ever.
 
Thank you for that information. In fact, installing from ports worked fine.

However, there is now a console window on the login page (I use xdm) which I have never had before. I presume I accepted some default compilation value that added it. Is there any way to get rid of it?
 
Code: 
$ cat /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
# $FreeBSD: release/10.0.0/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf 258710 2013-11-28 14:24:26Z gjb $
FreeBSD: {
  url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/release/0",
  #url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: yes
}
 
Hello to all.

xorg-7.7 is now in the /latest/ directory. So anyone who doesn't want to compile it using ports can now install it as binary.
 
robspop said:
Ok, thanks for the information, I can try to build it from ports, it is just rather slow on laptop.
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I just recently built Xorg from ports. The process completed, installing Xorg without a default window manager. I was forced to build ports/x11-wm/twm separately, in order to have a title bar on my windows.
 
cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg-apps ; make config

Is TWM enabled there? In general, it doesn't hurt to leave everything there at the default. The apps are not very large and their absence may surprise you at the wrong moment.
 
As far as I can tell, one still has to use ports to get the later version of xorg-server. I also had to add
Code: 
WITH_NEW_XORG=yes
to /etc/make.conf.

On the bright side, I removed the default option to use hal, and did not check the option for devd. It seems that neither is necessary. On the downside, still can't get synaptics working with the mouse on the two laptops that I tried, however, it's entirely possible that this is me not researching very hard.
 
wblock@ said:
cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg-apps ; make config

Is TWM enabled there? In general, it doesn't hurt to leave everything there at the default. The apps are not very large and their absence may surprise you at the wrong moment.
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All the defaults were checked, including TWM. I don't have a clue why it happened. I started it right before bed (as is my custom) - and didn't really monitor its progress.

Oh well, it's working now. Actually, I kinda like the clean white window look of X without TWM. Placement and navigation's a little bit cumbersome though ... :-)
 
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