From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 21 21:37:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA20370 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 21:37:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20355 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 21:37:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from pluto.sr.se ([134.25.193.91]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id GAA22766; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 06:20:34 +0100 (MET) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id GAA12313; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 06:20:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19990122062033.D12229@sr.se> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 06:20:33 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: David Shanes Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: More about ports and packages and XFree86 Reply-To: flygt@sr.se References: <002701be459d$28f0bc00$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <002701be459d$28f0bc00$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com>; from David Shanes on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:21:31PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:21:31PM -0800, David Shanes wrote: > To add more info - I installed XFree86 when I installed 2.2.6 -release, but > never used it as it lacked support for the Neomagic chipset. I want to > install 3.3.3 since it now has support. Do I need to *uninstall* the old > version first? Depends on how you got the 3.3.3 I,ve made upgrades of my XFree86 using the preinst.sh and postinst.sh that comes with the binaries I fetched at ftp.xfree86.org. This is an easy way to go I think. Read all the README's and other capital letter files! Quite easy actually. Gunnar > Thanks, > David > _____________________________________________________ > David Shanes 7535 Metropolitan Drive > dshanes@personalogic.com San Diego, CA 92108 > Database Developer (619) 220-5800 x228 > PersonaLogic, Inc. (619) 220-5899 (fax) > http://www.PersonaLogic.com > > The big news: http://www.personalogic.com/home/press/prs_releaseAOL.stm > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message