From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 14:23: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D97014BC5 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:22:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.42] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ka231410 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:21:12 -0500 Message-ID: <3890C52D.C1D209E@twave.net> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:22:37 -0500 From: Walter Brameld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Doesn't XFree86 Upgrade Properly References: <3.0.32.20000128074338.00740384@idx.com.au> <3890AF42.21F5F672@nwlink.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG R Joseph Wright wrote: > > Danny wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > - Need to upgrade to the latest XFree86 > > You could try building it from a port, although when I did, the kernel > panicked and rebooted. This is my biggest pet peeve with FreeBSD. The > packaging/updating system needs to be expanded. > I upgraded from the port about 3 days ago. I did a deinstall first and didn't have any problems. My 'man XFree86' also still shows 3.3.5, but 3.3.6 is what is actually firing up. -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message