From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 15 05:02:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3241E16A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 05:02:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CFE43D41 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 05:02:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kellers@njit.edu) Received: from www.smsdesign.org (ool-4353d5dd.dyn.optonline.net [67.83.213.221]) by mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I2H00H2O1ZSWX@mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:02:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:02:24 -0400 From: Tim Kellers In-reply-to: <411EEBB4.2000801@ns.sympatico.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200408150102.35467.kellers@njit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <411EEBB4.2000801@ns.sympatico.ca> cc: Clinton MacKinnon Subject: Re: The switch to X.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 05:02:40 -0000 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users of FreeBSD-current, users of xorg AUTHOR: anholt@FreeBSD.org The XFREE86_VERSION variable is deprecated and has been replaced by the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable.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