Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 17:52:48 +0000 (UTC) From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to downgrade X server Message-ID: <slrnnfaung.1ae.varro@anukis.local>
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I purposely held off on upgrading the to new X server for over a year now for fear of breakage, but yesterday I upgaded to the latest Xorg server along with the associated video and input drivers and am left with a black screen upon starting the X server. Since I can't figure out how to solve the problem, I'd simply like to go back to the previously installed software, but the documentation is unclear on how to do so. I have the saved versions of the previous packages in /usr/ports/packages, but doing the naive (and apparently incorrect): # pkg install /usr/ports/packages/All/xorg-server-1.7.7_13,1.tbz Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up-to-date. All repositories are up-to-date. pkg: /usr/ports/packages/All/xorg-server-1.7.7_13,1.tbz is not a valid package: no manifest found pkg: No packages available to install matching '/usr/ports/packages/All/xorg-server-1.7.7_13,1' have been found in the repositories It should be possible to re-install from the saved packages, right? But how?
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