Moving to xorg from XFree86

[Jeremy C. Reed]

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> on Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:19:09 -0900 Kevin Smith wrote:
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> Could you point me in the right direction, hopefully to documentation on
> how to go  from XFree86 to xorg in a NetBSD platform?
> Thanks.

Hello Kevin,

NetBSD provides XFree86 as its default (base) X11.

It also provides XFree86 and Xorg via pkgsrc.

These all (three) can be installed at the same time.

To quickly install Xorg the NetBSD/Pkgsrc way, define X11_TYPE=xorg in
your mk.conf file (like /etc/mk.conf).

Then go into pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/xorg and run "make install".

Or you can specifically go into pkgsrc/x11/xorg-server or other and
install there.

Setting X11_TYPE to xorg makes it all install to /usr/pkg/xorg/ (by
default). And software needing X will be built using those xorg libraries
and headers (and end up depending on xorg-libs package.

See pkgsrc/mk/defaults/mk.conf and read about X11_TYPE.

(By the way, I use pkgsrc's Xorg under Linux and set pkgsrc
X11ROOT_PREFIX to "X11R6".)

Maybe within next few months, NetBSD may provide Xorg as the default
(base) X11 (for NetBSD -current). I (or someone else) need(s) to submit
our NetBSD X11 code to the Xorg project for review.

Hope this helps,

 Jeremy C. Reed

p.s. I help with the Xorg packages for NetBSD and Pkgsrc.