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author | Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-04-14 13:52:52 +0000 |
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committer | Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-04-14 13:52:52 +0000 |
commit | d9418c027ecd87d11081f74d6f50c9115e24288c (patch) | |
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- Remove old, outdated FAQ entries.
- Prefer csup to cvsup
- Prefer pkill to killall
- Prefer X.org to XFree86
PR: docs/166273
Reviewed by: gjb
Approved by: gabor
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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index de76a8c975..2479f5eada 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ &tm-attrib.sparc; &tm-attrib.sun; &tm-attrib.usrobotics; - &tm-attrib.xfree86; &tm-attrib.general; </legalnotice> @@ -4400,7 +4399,7 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i8254</screen> tree.</para> <para>This is particularly a problem for &os; users who - utilize &man.cvsup.1; (or &man.csup.1;) to track the Ports + utilize &man.csup.1; to track the Ports Collection but choose not to install certain categories by specifying them in <filename>refuse</filename>. In theory, one should be able to refuse categories, but in practice @@ -5238,15 +5237,6 @@ use "disklabel -r" to install initial label</screen> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> - <term>ReiserFS</term> - - <listitem> - <para>&os; includes a read-only ReiserFS driver. For - more information, see &man.mount.reiserfs.8;.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> <term>ZFS</term> <listitem> @@ -6313,7 +6303,7 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging</programlisting> </question> <answer> - <para>Use &man.killall.1;.</para> + <para>Use &man.pkill.1;.</para> </answer> </qandaentry> @@ -6356,21 +6346,6 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging</programlisting> world.</para> </answer> </qandaentry> - - <qandaentry> - <question id="where-is-makedev"> - <para>What happened to - <filename>/dev/MAKEDEV</filename>?</para> - </question> - - <answer> - <para>&os; 5.<replaceable>X</replaceable> and beyond use - the &man.devfs.8; device-on-demand system. Device drivers - automatically create new device nodes as they are needed, - obsoleting <filename>/dev/MAKEDEV</filename>.</para> - </answer> - </qandaentry> - <qandaentry> <question id="add-pty"> <para>How do I add pseudoterminals to the system?</para> @@ -6765,85 +6740,6 @@ options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging</programlisting> </qandaentry> <qandaentry> - <question id="which-X"> - <para>Which X implementations are available for &os;?</para> - </question> - - <answer> - <para>Historically, the default implementation of X on &os; - has been &xfree86; which is maintained by <ulink - url="http://www.xfree86.org">The XFree86 Project, Inc.</ulink> - This software was installed by default on &os; versions up - until 4.10 and 5.2. Although &xorg; itself maintained an - implementation during that time period, it was basically - only provided as a reference platform, as it had suffered - greatly from bitrot over the years.</para> - - <para>However, early in 2004, some XFree86 developers left - that project over issues including the pace of code changes, - future directions, and interpersonal conflicts, and are now - contributing code directly to &xorg; instead. At that time, - &xorg; updated its source tree to the last &xfree86; release - before its subsequent licensing change (<application>XFree86 - version 4.3.99.903</application>), incorporated many changes - that had previously been maintained separately, and has - released that software as - <application>X11R6.7.0</application>. A separate but - related project, <ulink - url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/">freedesktop.org</ulink> - (or <literal>fd.o</literal> for short), is working on - rearchitecting the original &xfree86; code to offload more - work onto the graphics cards (with the goal of increased - performance) and make it more modular (with the goal of - increased maintainability, and thus faster releases as well - as easier configuration). &xorg; intends to incorporate the - <literal>freedesktop.org</literal> changes in its future - releases.</para> - - <para>As of July 2004, in &os.current;, - &xfree86; has been replaced with &xorg; as the default - implementation. Since then the default X11 implementation - in &os; is &xorg;.</para> - - <para>For further information, read the <ulink - url="&url.books.handbook;/x11.html">X11</ulink> section of - the &os; Handbook.</para> - </answer> - </qandaentry> - - <qandaentry> - <question id="xfree86-split"> - <para>Why did the X projects split, anyway?</para> - </question> - - <answer> - <para>The answer to this question is outside the scope of this - FAQ. Note that there are voluminous postings in various - mailing list archives on the Internet; please use your - favorite search engine to investigate the history instead of - asking this question on the &os; mailing lists. It may even - be the case that only the participants will ever know for - certain.</para> - </answer> - </qandaentry> - - <qandaentry> - <question id="why-choose-xorg"> - <para>Why did &os; choose to go with the &xorg; ports by - default?</para> - </question> - - <answer> - <para>The &xorg; developers claimed that their goal is to - release more often and incorporate new features more - quickly. If they are able to do so, this will be very - attractive. Also, their software still uses the traditional - X license, while &xfree86; is using their modified - one.</para> - </answer> - </qandaentry> - - <qandaentry> <question id="running-X"> <para>I want to run X, how do I go about it?</para> </question> @@ -7226,7 +7122,7 @@ ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure</programlisting> <qandaentry> <question id="xfree86-root"> - <para>Before, I was able to run &xfree86; as a regular user. + <para>Before, I was able to run &xorg; as a regular user. Why does it now say that I must be <username>root</username>?</para> </question> @@ -7234,18 +7130,9 @@ ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure</programlisting> <answer> <para>All X servers need to be run as <username>root</username> in order to get direct access to - your video hardware. Older versions of &xfree86; (<= - 3.3.6) installed all bundled servers to be automatically run - as <username>root</username> (setuid to - <username>root</username>). This is obviously a security - hazard because X servers are large, complicated programs. - Newer versions of &xfree86; do not install the servers - setuid to <username>root</username> for just this - reason.</para> - - <para>Obviously, running an X server as the - <username>root</username> user is not acceptable, nor a good - idea security-wise. There are two ways to be able to use X + your video hardware.</para> + + <para>There are two ways to be able to use &xorg; as a regular user. The first is to use <command>xdm</command> or another display manager (e.g., <command>kdm</command>); the second is to use the @@ -7257,7 +7144,7 @@ ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure</programlisting> sessions; it is essentially the graphical counterpart of &man.getty.8; and &man.login.1;. For more information on <command>xdm</command> see <ulink - url="http://www.xfree86.org/sos/resources.html">the &xfree86; documentation</ulink>, + url="http://www.x.org/wiki/UserDocumentation">the &xorg; documentation</ulink>, and the <link linkend="xdm-boot">the FAQ entry</link> on it.</para> @@ -8159,37 +8046,6 @@ Key F15 A A Menu Workplace Nop</programlisting> to <literal>0</literal>.</para> </answer> </qandaentry> - - <qandaentry> - <question id="cvsup-missing-libs"> - <para>I have just installed <application>CVSup</application> - but trying to execute it produces errors. What is - wrong?</para> - </question> - - <answer> - <para>First, see if the error message you are receiving is - like the one shown below.</para> - - <programlisting>/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXaw.so.6" not found</programlisting> - - <para>Errors like these are caused by installing the <filename - role="package">net/cvsup</filename> port on a machine which - does not have the <application>&xorg;</application> suite. - If you want to use the <acronym>GUI</acronym> included with - <application>CVSup</application> you will need to install - <application>&xorg;</application> now. Alternatively if you - just wish to use <application>CVSup</application> from a - command line you should delete the package previously - installed. Then install the <filename - role="package">net/cvsup-without-gui</filename> or the - <filename role="package">net/csup</filename> port. If you - have a recent &os; release you may use &man.csup.1;. This - is covered in more detail in the <ulink - url="&url.books.handbook;/cvsup.html">CVSup section</ulink> - of the Handbook.</para> - </answer> - </qandaentry> </qandaset> </chapter> |