From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 22 21:30:29 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E5A16A418 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:30:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from sarevok.dnr.servegame.org (b83183.upc-b.chello.nl [212.83.83.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6B313C465 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:30:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (unknown [66.230.99.27]) by sarevok.dnr.servegame.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E18EBD00 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:10:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF4A1CECD; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:38:59 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:38:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <000001c7fd17$270bfa40$6601a8c0@KGISH> In-Reply-To: <000001c7fd17$270bfa40$6601a8c0@KGISH> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709221538.26733.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Kiffin Gish Subject: Re: How to downgrade from xorg-7.3 to xorg-7.2 ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:30:29 -0000 On Saturday 22 September 2007 14:50:25 Kiffin Gish wrote: > Hi there, > > Since I recently upgraded to xorg-7.3, I cannot use my laptop because > nvidia has not yet provided an upgraded driver. I've tried all the > recommended workarounds for tweaking the xorg.conf file but to no avail. > > My question then is: how can I safely downgrade back to xorg-7.2? If you still have xorg-7.2 packages this is the fastest: (cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make all-depends-list)|xargs pkg_delete -f env PKGDIR=/path/to/packages/All pkg_add /path/to/packages/All/xorg-7.2.tbz If not, you need to revert your ports tree to pre-xorg 7.3 AFTER the pkg_delete command, using a reldate in your ports-supfile. Unfortunately since the xorg-modular joy[1] there's no good way to make portupgrade ignore an upgrade via HOLD_PKGS, so you need to go back to manual upgrading, deciding port by port what you can upgrade and don't use -R or -r in case a dep on X is pulled in. [1] I still have to see the advantage of it, cause so far 1 or 2 drivers have been updated independently and the 200+ more paths in /var/db/pkg plus the inability to hold an xorg installation from portupgrade -a outweigh this significantly. -- Mel