From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 19 12:29:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.host45.com (ns1.webdevelop.net [216.120.96.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B825337B404 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 12:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pippo.lespetitsplaisirs.com (modemcable115.133-203-24.que.mc.videotron.ca [24.203.133.115]) by mail.host45.com (8.11.4/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g4JJVDK31384 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 12:31:13 -0700 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020519152449.00abed88@mail.host45.com> X-Sender: gustav@mail.host45.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 15:29:18 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: PJourdan Subject: Re: Re: Upgrade XFree86-3.3.6? to XFree86-4.X Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_19315265==_.ALT" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=====================_19315265==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed This may be a little tardy, but for some reason my postings were not geting through from my regular e-mail. :(( At 03:21 PM 5/18/2002 +0100, S. Roberts wrote: Hi, I have XFree86-3.3.6 installed on my system. After posting questions about my colour / graphics problems with a new monitor, numerous respondents advised me to upgrade to XFree86-4.0.2. Simple question here is, how do I upgrade to XFree86-4.0.2? Please bear === sni, snip ==== I understand as I had the same problem. This may sound stupid, but it worked for me: I just deleted the X11 or whatever the directory was that contained all the files and then just installed the XFree86 v. 4.2! Did I do something terribly wrong? Should I expect the great manitou of Silicon Valley to stomp my machine? Seems to work just fine... Phil --=====================_19315265==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" This may be a little tardy, but for some reason my postings were not geting through from my regular e-mail. :((

At 03:21 PM 5/18/2002 +0100, S. Roberts wrote:
Hi,
I have XFree86-3.3.6 installed on my system. After posting questions
about my colour / graphics problems with a new monitor, numerous
respondents advised me to upgrade to XFree86-4.0.2.
Simple question here is, how do I upgrade to XFree86-4.0.2? Please bear
===
sni, snip
====
I understand as I had the same problem. This may sound stupid, but it worked for me: I just deleted the X11 or whatever the directory was that contained all the files and then just installed the XFree86 v. 4.2!
Did I do something terribly wrong? Should I expect the great manitou of Silicon Valley to stomp my machine? Seems to work just fine...
Phil
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