Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:25:48 -0700 From: William Richard <wdr@tdl.com> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moving to XFree86-4 Message-ID: <01080212254800.01448@saffron.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <20010802143532.A11148@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010802112630.A9855@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B69550D.3060803@lmc.ericsson.se> <20010802143532.A11148@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Thursday 02 August 2001 06:35, j mckitrick wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:26:37AM -0400, Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: > | I found that pkg_delete -a and make install of all necessary ports > | is an extremely healthy activity as it removes a extremely big load > | of crap (read: useless/unused software). > | > | Just reinstall it all. You probably don't need that much anyways. > | ;) > > Any caveats I should look out for moving to version 4? Before you deinstall all of your X ports, make sure the new X server works. And make sure you can go back to 3.3.6 relatively expeditiously (mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11backup). The XFree86-4 X server dumped core on my allegedly-supported Matrox Mystique shortly after starting, so I never got past the configuration. If I hadn't had the old X11R6 directory backed up, I would have been mightily screwed. -- Cheers, William Richard wdr@tdl.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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