I am not behind a firewall. It just seems to hang in connect system call.. Is there another simple way to get all the bits required for building X ? thanks mohan <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:43 PM, François-Denis Gonthier <<a href="mailto:neumann@lostwebsite.net">neumann@lostwebsite.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>>>>> "Mohan" == Mohan Parthasarathy <<a href="mailto:suruti94@gmail.com">suruti94@gmail.com</a>> writes: Mohan> Hello, I am trying to build the Xserver and my git-clone Mohan> command hangs sitting there. I can ping <a href="http://131.252.210.176" target="_blank">131.252.210.176</a> but Mohan> nothing more. Anything i am missing.. Make sure your firewall is configured to let the git protocol go through. I don't remember which port it is. As I'm more used to Mercurial than Git, I once forgot that Git was using it's own protocol and bothered people in #xorg-devel with about the same question. F-D _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list <a href="mailto:xorg@lists.freedesktop.org">xorg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> </blockquote></div>