From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 12 14:43:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F8F16A46B for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:43:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6AE13C4B8 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:43:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C21D51937 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:43:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:43:52 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070612154352.50a24bad@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20070612085543.02C8.GERARD@seibercom.net> References: <20070612085543.02C8.GERARD@seibercom.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD-6.2 & Xorg-7.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:43:57 -0000 On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:55:54 -0400 Gerard wrote: > I have had nothing but grief since updating to the new Xorg-7.2 > version on my PC. Unexplained crashes, lockups, etc. No doubt, some of > the problems are my fault; however I cannot seem to get them > corrected. I had a few problems like that, but they went away after a week or so of picking-up upgrades. In particular doing a forced update of nvidia-driver and its dependencies fixed a few of the problems. > Now, I was wondering how this would work. > > 1) Download a fresh ISO of FreeBSD-6.2 on to another PC > 2) Erase my HDs on the PC presently running FBSD > 3) Reformat the HDs > 4) Install the fresh copy of FBSD > > Will that give me a system that I can directly install Xorg-7.2 on to > or do I still have to go through the procedure shown in the "UPDATING" > file? Suppose I install Xorg-7.2 doing the actual install of FBSD; > will that make any difference? Before you install xorg, create a /usr/X11R6 directory and run the mergebase script which will update any references to /usr/X11R6 that are in the base system.