From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 17:57:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE05F16A4CF for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:57:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196A043D1F for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:57:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j24HvRBe024411; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:57:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j24HvQ2e049661; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:57:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j24HvPKI049660; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:57:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:57:25 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: "Michael C. Shultz" Message-ID: <20050304175725.GA49620@thought.org> References: <20050304085526.GA88144@thought.org> <200503040134.33418.ringworm01@gmail.com> <200503040152.02290.ringworm01@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503040152.02290.ringworm01@gmail.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: Gary Kline cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any ideas why these xorg hassles??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:57:28 -0000 On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:52:01AM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Friday 04 March 2005 01:34 am, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > > > I'm running portmanager on a test system to see if it is able to > > switch between XFree86 and xorg, if it is all you need due is make > > the change in make.conf then run portmanager -u. I'll know in an > > hour or so the results. > > > > -Mike > > > > It works, test passed. If you change X_WINDOW_SYSTEM= in make.conf > and as soon as portmanager -u finds any one port that depends on > X and needs upgrading it will switch everthing to what ever version you > have selected with X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=. This will take a while if you > have a lot of X related ports installed.... > > *Urk*. Well, there's not that much Xware on my DNS server (the KAyak), there's a truckload on the other machine. Thanks for the datapoint and your testing! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix