Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 10:00:34 -0400 From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading self-installed X with Ports version? Message-ID: <20030909140034.GA29625@panix.com>
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A year and a half ago I installed FreeBSD on a laptop. I've entirely forgotten the details, but I had to install XFree86 from scratch because I needed a version that was newer than whatever was in Ports at the time. (The chip is an ATI Mobility Radeon; I installed XFree86 4.2.) I recently tried to upgrade X by installing it from Ports, and thought I had succeeded, as pkg_info and so forth are reporting that XFree86-4.3.0,1 is installed. However, I'm still running 4.2, as executing "XFree86 -version" informs me. I suppose this is a really stupid question, but what do I need to do to get the newer, Ports version of XFree86 to be the version run on the system? And is there anything I should be doing to get it configured properly after the change is made? Thanks very much. Jesse Sheidlower
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