Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 22:07:18 -0700 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: jason <jason@ec.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x.org server Message-ID: <1084856837.764.3.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <40A677CF.8010306@ec.rr.com> References: <40A677CF.8010306@ec.rr.com>
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On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 13:04, jason wrote: > I am looking to update my x server and I found x.org in the ports. It > was hiden so I would like to know if it is ready for desktop use or is > it still under development/debugging. I was going to update to > xfree86-4-snap until I found the x.org version. Also do I need to do > anything special when I upgrade from version 4.3, like change config > files or something? I expect I have to rebuild all ports that depend on x. > Thanks, > Jason The xorg server in ports is part of progress towards switching our X over to X.Org/freedesktop.org libraries and providing the X.Org server. It doesn't cooperate with XFree86-4-libraries, and the x.org/fd.o libraries aren't a complete replacement for XFree86-4-libraries yet. If you don't want to experience pain, you should probably just use XFree86-4-snap. That said, I'm using it on my desktop. To try it, just switch the XFree86-4-libraries dependency in bsd.port.mk to point to xlibs instead, pkg_delete -f XFree86-4-libraries (leave clients and the rest of them), and go for it. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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