Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 07:06:47 -0700 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Guide to x.org update? Message-ID: <200407170706.47369.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <20040629122910.GB7543@lori.mine.nu> References: <20040628161012.82589.qmail@web53406.mail.yahoo.com> <20040628185304.GA68724@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040629122910.GB7543@lori.mine.nu>
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On Tuesday 29 June 2004 05:29 am, Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> wrote: > I followed Matthew's instructions to upgrade from XFree86-4.3 to X.org and > it worked well. It took about 14 hours on my laptop (a P3 with 64Mb or > RAM). I have not recompiled any other packages and I haven't had any > troubles so far. > > Here's how I did it exactly: <snip useful upgrade info> I know this post was from a few weeks ago, but I just wanted to thank you profusely for this info. After considering that XFree86 will no longer be the default X server in FreeBSD soon, and that many distros are also switching, in addition to the fact that XFree86 doesn't recognize my video card no matter what I did, I finally took the plunge and installed X.org. Thanks to your explicit instructions, so far it's running without a hitch (and now I can also get 1600X1200 resolution, a necessary thing on my 21" monitor). I had considered just yanking XFree and installing X.org, but I'm pleased to know a better method that allows portupgrade to get the new dependencies correct. Kudos. - jt
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