Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 07:03:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Mayo <mayo@mayo.sk> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg/XFree86 and gnome Message-ID: <20040618063403.X76264@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <DB290C35-C08E-11D8-BC72-000A9597E310@mayo.sk> References: <20040616195959.G842@pukruppa.net> <1087409763.90450.0.camel@hood.oook.cz> <DB290C35-C08E-11D8-BC72-000A9597E310@mayo.sk>
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Mayo wrote:
> I know you are talking about 2.7, but some people contemplating to switch=
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> from xfree to xorg may find this useful.
>
> I have gnome 2.6 working perfectly fine with Xorg for almost a month now.=
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> Everything runs smoothly, I just have to run pkgdb -F each time after cvs=
up=20
> (that is until the xorg vs. xfree issue in ports is solved) to fix few=20
> dependencies.
I tried a portupgrade of gnome2.7 this way (and deleted all=20
XFree86-* directories from the ports tree - to make sure nothing=20
will be reinstalled):
As far as I can see many packages were rebuilt and installed
correctly.
> There was even noticeable increase in responsiveness of the
> interface and the box itself.
I am not sure about this, but there definitely is no decrease.
Uli.
>
> mayo
>
> On Jun 16, 2004, at 11:16, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>
>> V st, 16. 06. 2004 v 20:09, Peter Ulrich Kruppa p=ED=9Ae:
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>>> Since nothing spectacular happend since my upgrade to gnome-2.7
>>> (it simply works) I would like to test xorg .
>>> Or should I wait for XFree86-4.4 (I believe I have read, someone
>>> is working on it).
>>> ... Or just go ahead and see what happens?
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>>> Thanks for good or well meant advices.
>>=20
>> Go for it, it should just work. Tell us afterwards. Don't wait for
>> XFree86 4.4, they are not coming RSN, as I heard.
>>=20
>> --=20
>> Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
>> <pav@FreeBSD.org>
>>=20
>> Knight: We shall say Ny! again to you if you do not appease us.
>> Arthur: All right. What do you want?
>> Knight: We want... a shruberry!
>
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