Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:03:41 -0500 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Successful upgrade, following wikitest instructions Message-ID: <20061128030341.GA35329@mail.scottro.net>
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I had a sacrificial box, so I decided to try the xorg upgrade. The only problem I ran into was after following the step of make install in xorg, it began running pkg_config and giving the message that there was a dependency loop with xorg-libs. I ctl-C'd out of it. It was hanging on registering xorg-7.1, however, looking at /var/db/pkg showed xorg-7.1 there. I ran pkgdb -F which gave me the chance to fix it. I was so euphoric that it had worked I neglected to write down my choices, thinking my memory would serve, which I fear, it didn't. There were a few conflicts (it didn't remove xorg-server-6.9, so I chose, during pkgdb -F to unregister it.) At any rate, everything seems to be working. I used a PCBSD installation, because I was in a hurry to try this, and PCBSD gives me a working X environment in about 20 minutes. I followed the instructions completely--I think, however, that I could have gotten away with, rather than the entire xorg-drivers port to go through and just install what I needed, mouse, keyboard, vesa for emergency and xf86-video-mga. At any rate, I just wanted to report success, and thank you folks for all your hard work and your guide to upgrading, which worked beautifully for me. When I have a bit of time, I think I'm going to dump this drive to a spare, in case it doesn't work, and try it on my main workstation. Great job. Thank you. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: Looks like a job for wiccan-girl. What do you say, Will? Big time danger. Willow: Hey, I eat danger for breakfast. Xander: But, oddly enough, she panics in the face of breakfast foods.
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