Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:59:50 -0400 From: "Gerald T. Freymann" <freymann@eagle.ca> To: "freeman tan" <freemantan@atozasia.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Newbie Guide to Upgrade XFree86 4.0.3 Message-ID: <014601c0bd0f$84c4c120$0f01a8c0@phantom> References: <20010404082948.25452.qmail@atozasia.com>
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> I'm a newbie to FreeBSD, in fact just finished installing my first FreeBSD 4.2. Congrats. FreeBSD is pretty nifty. > I need a solution to upgrade my XFree86 to the latest release because I just got a Hercules Geforce 2 MX video > card and it doesn't work with the XFree86 release in FreeBSD 4.2. I've been looking all over the place for help in other matters, but I'm sure there are plenty of online help pages and guides that would discuss this. I assume you've looked at Xfree86's home page? They have a TON of great information there. http://www.xfree86.org/ http://www.xfree86.org/getting.html And, on your FreeBSD box itself, have you run: pkg_version -v You may have to pipe it to a file so you can review it. pkg_version -v > /tmp/upgrade.txt Of course, if you just installed 4.2 the ports will likely all be in sync. So, you could always set up CVSUP and update your ports, then run the above command, and FreeBSD will tell ya how to upgrade the ports. http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ Check out the section "Updating Sources with CVSUP" -- you don't *have* to upgrade the /usr/src tree, you can just select the ports. But hey, why not do both? and upgrade to FreeBSD 4.3-RC2 while you're at it? Just folllow along the information at this site, it's great! -Gerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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