Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:02:24 -0400 From: Tim Kellers <kellers@njit.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Clinton MacKinnon <zero@ns.sympatico.ca> Subject: Re: The switch to X.org Message-ID: <200408150102.35467.kellers@njit.edu> In-Reply-To: <411EEBB4.2000801@ns.sympatico.ca> References: <411EEBB4.2000801@ns.sympatico.ca>
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On Sunday 15 August 2004 12:51 am, Clinton MacKinnon wrote: > Hello all, > > Does anyone know where I can find, or what exactly needs to be done to > switch a 5.2.1 system from XFree86 to X.org. Due to the lists currently > being down I'm unable to find the official HEADS UP articles I was > looking for. > > Thank you in advance >From /usr/src/Updating 20040723: AFFECTS: users of FreeBSD-current, users of xorg AUTHOR: anholt@FreeBSD.org The XFREE86_VERSION variable is deprecated and has been replaced by the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable. X_WINDOW_SYSTEM may be set to xorg, xfree86-4, or xfree86-3. X_WINDOW_SYSTEM defaults to xorg on FreeBSD-current. If you are switching to xorg, you should follow this set of commands to cleanly upgrade: pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/imake-4* /var/db/pkg/XFree86-* cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make install pkgdb -F Users of -stable or older -current can switch to X.Org by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in make.conf and following the same process. You should have portupgrade installed before you attempt the above instructions. Assuming you do, follow the above instructions exactly. I did exactly the above, and it worked fine for me, though when running pkgdb -F, some of the replacement xorg choices aren't intuitive. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT
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