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Subject: Re: Upgrading from XFree86 to Xorg
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At 06:33 PM 9/06/2007, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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>Warren Liddell wrote:
> > Up untill now i have been using XFree86 and being as it is basically no
> > longer updated or maintained, so im wishing to know the basic most
> > easiest way to change over from XFree to Xorg
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>If you're still running XFree86 because you're on a FreeBSD 4.x system
>where that is the default, then do not even think about trying this as
>you will completely banjax your system.  Upgrade to 6.2 first.

All ready running 6.2-STABLE .. so will give your steps a try and see 
how things go from there.  Thanks for the info.