From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 14 12:01:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22813 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 12:01:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22800; Thu, 14 May 1998 12:00:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul3.u.washington.edu (root@saul3.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.1]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id MAA36334; Thu, 14 May 1998 12:01:00 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id MAA02107; Thu, 14 May 1998 12:00:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 11:59:30 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: William Woods cc: FreeBSD Questions , "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Xfree88 question In-Reply-To: <355B250C.88267D0A@cybcon.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 May 1998, William Woods wrote: >I am useing the Xfree86 distributation that came with 2.2.5 and would >like to upgrade to the latest version (3.3.2 I believe). > >What process would I use, are there patches avaliable to do this or a >port patch or?????/ Actually, X11R6.4 is the latest but.... There is a bit of a licensing issue with the new X. I am not sure that FreeBSD has mase any statement regarding it. This is beyond the scope of the question at hand. "FreeBSD-questions" and "questions" are the same address. It is unecessary to send to both addresses. Here is how I would do it. I am unsophisticated though. :) Save all of the pertinent config files such as XSetup_0 and so forth. If you don't even know what these are then you have never changed them. If you never changed them, there is probably no reason to back them up. Use your judgement. Fetch the 3.3.2 port. cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 make make install Voila, new X. Now put your config files back where you got them. Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message