Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:38:25 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> Subject: Re: How to downgrade from xorg-7.3 to xorg-7.2 ... Message-ID: <200709221538.26733.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <000001c7fd17$270bfa40$6601a8c0@KGISH> References: <000001c7fd17$270bfa40$6601a8c0@KGISH>
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On Saturday 22 September 2007 14:50:25 Kiffin Gish wrote: > Hi there, > > Since I recently upgraded to xorg-7.3, I cannot use my laptop because > nvidia has not yet provided an upgraded driver. I've tried all the > recommended workarounds for tweaking the xorg.conf file but to no avail. > > My question then is: how can I safely downgrade back to xorg-7.2? If you still have xorg-7.2 packages this is the fastest: (cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make all-depends-list)|xargs pkg_delete -f env PKGDIR=/path/to/packages/All pkg_add /path/to/packages/All/xorg-7.2.tbz If not, you need to revert your ports tree to pre-xorg 7.3 AFTER the pkg_delete command, using a reldate in your ports-supfile. Unfortunately since the xorg-modular joy[1] there's no good way to make portupgrade ignore an upgrade via HOLD_PKGS, so you need to go back to manual upgrading, deciding port by port what you can upgrade and don't use -R or -r in case a dep on X is pulled in. [1] I still have to see the advantage of it, cause so far 1 or 2 drivers have been updated independently and the 200+ more paths in /var/db/pkg plus the inability to hold an xorg installation from portupgrade -a outweigh this significantly. </bitchin'> -- Mel
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