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Old 16th August 2008
Meta_Ridley Meta_Ridley is offline
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It's split into several meta-packages, which in turn pull in a whole lot of packages which make up X.org. If you're building from pkgsrc you can get by with the modular-xorg-libs and modular-xorg-fonts packages, then install the xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse, and whatever xf86-video-[video driver] package you need. If you don't know, then xf86-video-vesa will give you the generic VESA driver, and if that doesn't work, there's always xf86-video-vga.

You may want to install some of the X.org apps, but they're not required to get X working. Note that in order to switch to Xorg you will need to put X11_TYPE=modular in your mk.conf file. You will also need to recompile and reinstall any packages you currently have installed that use X since they need to be linked to the X.org libraries instead of the XFree86 ones.
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