On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 08:32:47PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: > On Friday 08 December 2006 19:27, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 07:19:27PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: > > > I've been having a really weird video problem on my two machines when > > > running 4.11. My 4.11 machines run XFree86 4.5.0 > > > > > > I have a dual-head setup I've been using for a few years. Recently, the > > > left monitor looks like it has a vertical sync problem, but I'm pretty > > > sure it's not the video hardware, because only host "lightning" have the > > > problem until today. Now "daemon" also has it. I can pull the drives > > > out (mobile racks) and put FreeBSD 6.1 in and these don't have the > > > problem. > > > > > > So I thought I'd switch to xorg. But when I try to build xorg-nestserver > > > or xorg-server, the build breaks complaining that stdint.h doesn't exist. > > > > > > Can anyone confirm that these ports will build under 4.11? > > > > It's possible you're the first person to try it. You really should > > try to migrate off of 4.x, maintainers are not required to support it > > and all support will soon be terminated. > > > > Kris > oki doki. > > From perusing the web site, I can see that I have to upgrade thru the 5.x > series first, if I do a source upgrade. If I do a binary upgrade, I can go > straight to 6.1, right? > > Opps, I've been reading the Install notes for 5.x and I can't do a binary > pgrade from 4.x.
It's possible to do a binary upgrade to 6.1 (or 6.2-rc1 if you want extra bug fixes), with some extra steps. Make sure you install the source tree, then do cd /usr/src make delete-old to delete old files which can cause problems for later builds (this is what the 5.5 install notes warn about). Then you will need to upgrade your /etc using mergemaster (see the docs). You'd have to do both of these steps anyway if you were doing a source upgrade, so you've still saved yourself the time and effort. Kris
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