From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 2 7: 3: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1EC137B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 07:02:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] helo=dogma) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15SJ3y-000Nf6-00; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:02:58 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f72E2wA11503; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:02:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:02:57 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moving to XFree86-4 Message-ID: <20010802150257.A11372@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010802112630.A9855@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B69550D.3060803@lmc.ericsson.se> <20010802143532.A11148@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B695AEE.7010904@lmc.ericsson.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3B695AEE.7010904@lmc.ericsson.se>; from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:51:42AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:51:42AM -0400, Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: | Not all graphic cards are compatible. | | Apart from that, I had no problems. | | Oh, and say goodbye to your lovely XF86Setup. It's gone. that really | sucks. I had problems configuring my video card/screen combo because of | that. Other than modular design and some new cards supported, what is the advantage, if any? My card is supported in both 3.3.6 and 4.x. | | A. | | j mckitrick wrote: | > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:26:37AM -0400, Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: | > | I found that pkg_delete -a and make install of all necessary ports is an | > | extremely healthy activity as it removes a extremely big load of crap | > | (read: useless/unused software). | > | | > | Just reinstall it all. You probably don't need that much anyways. ;) | > | > Any caveats I should look out for moving to version 4? | > | > | | > | For the record, I don't any easy way. | > | | > | A. | > | | > | j mckitrick wrote: | > | > If I have backup up my old /usr/X11R6, is there an easy way to move my apps | > | > to XFree86-4? Or do I need to 'make reinstal' all of my X ports? | > | > | > | > jm | > | > | > | | > | | > | -- | > | Antoine Beaupré | > | Jambala TCM team | > | Ericsson Canada inc. | > | mailto:antoine.beaupre@ericsson.ca | > | > | > jm | > | | | -- | Antoine Beaupré | Jambala TCM team | Ericsson Canada inc. | mailto:antoine.beaupre@ericsson.ca jm -- "Investigators have discovered the cause of the TWA 800 explosion was a frayed wire. The wire became frayed when it was struck by a missile." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message