Two question about xorg ports

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Windmill

Hi, I didn't find this is the documentation. Is there a way to install a minimal working xorg server? In gentoo I can install it with the minimal flag and setting VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES variable in make.conf so it installs only what I want. Sure, on FreeBSD there is the xorg-minimal port, but still it pulls in a lot of unwanted packages, like vesa, various xf86-input-* packages, etc...
And, I read in some posts about the WITH_NEW_XORG variable, what does this? again, it isn't in the documentation.
 
x11/xorg-minimal only loads a bare minimum. In a lot of cases, these are not enough, and people have mysterious errors because various other expected parts of xorg are missing. I recommend just installing x11/xorg. The configuration screens let you select just the drivers you need, and then remembers those settings.

WITH_NEW_XORG is described in https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics.
 
Thank you for the answer. I apologize for the formatting, sometimes I just forgot about the forum formatting rules.
 
I've been able to get a fairly minimal X going by doing the following. (Note that these will pull in various dependencies.)

I install x11-servers/xorg-server.

Then, depending upon the machine, the video driver--in my own case, I either need drivers for an NVidia or Intel card. (If you don't use WITH_NEW_XORG--hrrm, that should probably be formatted, but 'taint a file nor a port, so...) (Sigh, and I just broke another rule, using ...)

Anyway, before I got sidetracked by formatting issues, with Intel video cards, one has to add
Code: 
WITH_NEW_XORG=yes
to /etc/make.conf. If you don't do that, you will use x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa, otherwise, you can use the Intel video driver.

Now that we have the server and the driver for our video card, then add the driver for mouse and keyboard, both in /usr/ports/x11-drivers. Then add a window manager. There are several very minimal ones, I like x11-wm/dwm. Lastly, you need a terminal and x11/xinit, the latter being used to run the startx and you should have a working X.

After that, you can add what you need. There's all sorts of lightweight browsers, for example.
 
Windmill said:
As I understand in the wiki, WITH_NEW_XORG is set by default, right? No need to set from make.conf
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Only on FreeBSD 10 and newer. On older versions the variable has to be set.
 
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