From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 21:33:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36BEE37B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 21:33:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 28090 invoked by uid 100); 10 May 2001 04:33:14 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15098.6666.116347.772663@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 23:33:14 -0500 To: "Christopher W. Aiken" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xfree86 In-Reply-To: <84151445@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher W. Aiken types: > I have FreeBSD 4.2 installed with XFree86 3.xxx installed. > I used the ports collections and "made" XFree86 4.xxx. > I have not done a "make install" yet because I have a few > questions first. > 2) If I do a "make install" I would assume that I will > have both version 3.xxx and 4.xxx installed. When I do > a "startx" how does FreeBSD determine which one to use?? Unless you did something to prevent it, you won't have them both installed. You'll have 4.xxx installed, and whatever parts of 3.xxx that weren't overwritten by 4.xxx still on the disk. > If version 4.xxx fails I would need to go back to version 3.xxx If you have the space for both installs, just move /usr/X11R6 out of the way - for instance, to /usr/X11R6-XFree86-3 - then install 4.xxx. If 4.xxx fails, you can remove it and put the old one back. Or you can move 4.xxx as well - to /usr/X11R6-XFree86-4 - and then create a symlink from /usr/X11R6 to whichever one you want to run at the time. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message