From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 26 22:43:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9064A16A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:43:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EDF243D48 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:43:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1QMgmq3008897; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:42:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1QMglMU085449; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:42:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j1QMgkqP085448; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:42:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:42:46 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Michael Nottebrock Message-ID: <20050226224246.GA85405@thought.org> References: <20050226110651.0a20301b.gstewart@bonivet.net> <200502262149.06501.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20050226211955.GA85059@thought.org> <200502262241.38255.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502262241.38255.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: Gary Kline cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: Godwin Stewart Subject: Re: Xorg 6.8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:43:03 -0000 On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 10:41:33PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Saturday, 26. February 2005 22:19, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:49:00PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > On Saturday, 26. February 2005 13:05, Godwin Stewart wrote: > > > > On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:25:24 +1030, "Daniel O'Connor" > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > You don't need to update a port just because it depends on Xorg. The > > > > > X API is quite stable so you can update just Xorg without expecting > > > > > any problems. (I did XFree86 -> Xorg with zero problems for example) > > > > > > > > No, the problem's the other way round. Every time I want to portupgrade > > > > something else, portupgrade also wants to upgrade Xorg. > > > > > > edit /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf, find the HOLD_PKGS = [ line and change > > > it to > > > > > > HOLD_PKGS = [ > > > 'bsdpan-*', > > > 'xorg-*', > > > 'imake-*', > > > ] > > > > > > I've been using that for a long time now, since Xorg 6.8.1 breaks > > > vt-switching for me. > > > > Tweaking pkgtools.conf may help me if I move back to XFree, > > and it's looking like I have no choice. xorg autoconfigs > > itself to run at too high a res and nothing I do fixes it. > > How about adjusting the configuration then? There is utterly no xorg.conf file; the xorg probes set the resolution to the max (1600x1200), and the display `quivers' --for lack of a better word. So far my attemps with xorgcfg and xorgconfig work with startx only. And the display is off-center (leftward). > > > So, without highjacking this thread _too_ much, can anybody > > give me the cmds to get back to XFree-4 on my 5.3 install? > > You really don't want to do that except you're absolutely desparate (and the > above problem doesn't fit that category). Using XFree86 on 5.3 will make your > system incompatible with binary packages for 5.3 and for 5-STABLE. > If it's just binary _packages_, no problem since I build everything from src. Is XFree86 going to be completely obsolesced? gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix