From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 19 14:10: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF7EF37B407 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 14:09:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 997 invoked from network); 19 May 2002 21:09:51 -0000 Received: from userhh092.dsl.pipex.com (HELO ThisAddressDoesNotExist) (62.190.215.92) by smtp-2.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 19 May 2002 21:09:51 -0000 Subject: Re: Re: Upgrade XFree86-3.3.6? to XFree86-4.X From: "S. Roberts" Reply-To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com To: PJourdan Cc: FreeBSD-Questions In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020519152449.00abed88@mail.host45.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020519152449.00abed88@mail.host45.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-p1kUCfgQFA5fgKw8iWRD" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 19 May 2002 22:05:36 +0100 Message-Id: <1021842337.84212.179.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 --=-p1kUCfgQFA5fgKw8iWRD Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Not to worry Dude, better now rather than never at all! I'm still working out what applications will require rebuilding after upgrading XFree86-3.3.6. You're not the first person to suggest doing an rm -rf on /usr/X11R6, though. Since I installed XFree86-3.3.6 at initial system intallation (via /stand/sysinstall) with FreeBSD CD's, I've had a couple of others suggest that using /stand/sysinstall might actually be the way to go. Still weighing up options here. Stacey On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 20:29, PJourdan wrote: > This may be a little tardy, but for some reason my postings were not geti= ng=20 > through from my regular e-mail. :(( >=20 > 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 > =3D=3D=3D > sni, snip > =3D=3D=3D=3D > I understand as I had the same problem. This may sound stupid, but it=20 > worked for me: I just deleted the X11 or whatever the directory was that=20 > 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=20 > Silicon Valley to stomp my machine? Seems to work just fine... > Phil --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer --=-p1kUCfgQFA5fgKw8iWRD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Not to worry Dude, better now rather than never at all! I'm still working out what applications will require rebuilding after upgrading XFree86-3.3.6. You're not the first person to suggest doing an rm -rf on /usr/X11R6, though. Since I installed XFree86-3.3.6 at initial system intallation (via /stand/sysinstall) with FreeBSD CD's, I've had a couple of others suggest that using /stand/sysinstall might actually be the way to go. Still weighing up options here. Stacey On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 20:29, PJourdan wrote: > This may be a little tardy, but for some reason my postings were not geti= ng=20 > through from my regular e-mail. :(( >=20 > 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 > =3D=3D=3D > sni, snip > =3D=3D=3D=3D > I understand as I had the same problem. This may sound stupid, but it=20 > worked for me: I just deleted the X11 or whatever the directory was that=20 > 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=20 > Silicon Valley to stomp my machine? Seems to work just fine... > Phil - --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPOgTnvdn4A8qiCO5EQIF0wCgsrncfP6z0RXoYG431Y8I68rXaN8AoI5+ YddfimwkoU6M4W3GZ3yTsEk8 =VE/M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-p1kUCfgQFA5fgKw8iWRD-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message