Thanks to everyone who collaborated on this... just did it and it
turned out fine... and on Phil's comment, I actually did the upgrade
while X was running... the only file I really needed to worry about
was the XF86Config file... all the other files appear to merge without
issue...
Well done also
Agustin Navarro wrote:
.. yes but be careful. I think you should not be doing it in X.
Nonsense, everything should be just fine up until you restart X.
If memory serves me right, Xfree and X.org use the same config files, so
in theory just keep a copy of your xfree86.conf handy just in case
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 23:06:53 +1100, Ric de France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Therefore, will I be running the lastest X.org (and in the process
> have migrated off XFree86) if I go through with the emerge?
>
> ...Ric
.. yes but be careful. I think you should not be doing it in X.
Also to be
Thanks to everyone so far for your responses...
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 07:20:50 -0400, Agustin Navarro
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems that at somepoint, xfree-4.3.0-r8 got renamed to
> xorg-x11-4.3.0-r8. The next "emerge -uD world" upgrades it to
> xorg-x11-6.8.0-r3 and xterm and utempter got
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:29:10 +1100, Ric de France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Gentoo Users,
>
> This may sound like a weird question, but how do I find out when X.org
> got installed on my system.
>
> When I originally installed Gentoo, it was with XFree86, not X.org...
> and I recently discov
Hello,
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:29:10 +1100, Ric de France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Gentoo Users,
>
> This may sound like a weird question, but how do I find out when X.org
> got installed on my system.
>
> When I originally installed Gentoo, it was with XFree86, not X.org...
> and I rece
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:29:10 +1100
Ric de France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Gentoo Users,
>
Hello Ric,
>
> Any suggestions as to how I can find this out? Does anyone know when
> XFree86 was deprecated in Portage?
>
genlop -t xorg-x11
Maybe you have to emerge app-portage/genlop.
HTH
Juerg
Hi Gentoo Users,
This may sound like a weird question, but how do I find out when X.org
got installed on my system.
When I originally installed Gentoo, it was with XFree86, not X.org...
and I recently discovered during an "emerge -upD world" that it's
recompiling X.org. I'm assuming I must have k
