From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 15:11:47 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A751516A400 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:11:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41F1913C44C for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:11:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so520283uge for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:11:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.130.6 with SMTP id c6mr217188hud.1181142705852; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.3? ( [217.196.247.135]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id f6sm1354532nfh.2007.06.06.08.11.43; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4666CEAE.9060900@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:11:42 +0100 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Norberto Meijome References: <46646BEC.2090603@jessikat.plus.net> <20070605162246.757b9765@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070605162246.757b9765@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List" Subject: Re: Is it better to just rebuild Xorg 7.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:11:47 -0000 Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:45:48 +0000 > Robin Becker wrote: > >> I've just installed 6.2R and have just about got Xorg going. Is it >> better for me to just remove all my X related packages and try and build >> from the xorg-7.2 meta package or to go through the pain of trying to >> update? > > I think it'll be the same. Upgrade was the only option for me > as I had a fully functionally X setup in my laptop - it went pretty smoothly > (for the amount of changes done to the system). > > Make sure you follow the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING to the letter. > >> In either case I need to sync the ports tree etc. > > well, if u dont upgrade your tree, you may be able to install xorg 6.9 from > packages (MUCH faster) ; get it working; then sync the ports after this and > upgrade. There is nothing particularly wrong with 6.9, specially if you have a > clean machine and you plan to do the whole upgrade path. > > just dont go overkill with setting up KDE / Gnome and other things that depend > on X. twm would do for now ;) ....... I have Xorg from 6.2R working now, but I have already cvsup'd the ports so I guess I'll have to do the upgrade from the 6.2R version. I haven't yet got KDE etc going yet anyway. -- Robin Becker