Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:56:46 +0200 From: Piotr Smyrak <piotr.smyrak@heron.pl> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg/XFree86 and gnome Message-ID: <20040619125646.312a144a@beth.poprostu.pl> In-Reply-To: <20040618063403.X76264@pukruppa.net> References: <20040616195959.G842@pukruppa.net> <1087409763.90450.0.camel@hood.oook.cz> <DB290C35-C08E-11D8-BC72-000A9597E310@mayo.sk> <20040618063403.X76264@pukruppa.net>
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 07:03:05 +0200 (CEST), Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Mayo wrote: > > > I know you are talking about 2.7, but some people contemplating > > to switch from xfree to xorg may find this useful. > > > > I have gnome 2.6 working perfectly fine with Xorg for almost a > > month now. Everything runs smoothly, I just have to run pkgdb -F > > each time after cvsup (that is until the xorg vs. xfree issue in > > ports is solved) to fix few dependencies. > I tried a portupgrade of gnome2.7 this way (and deleted all > XFree86-* directories from the ports tree - to make sure nothing > will be reinstalled): > As far as I can see many packages were rebuilt and installed > correctly. > > > There was even noticeable increase in responsiveness of the > > interface and the box itself. > I am not sure about this, but there definitely is no decrease. Did you build on a clean system (or with deinstalled Gnome) or just force deinstalled XFree86 and installed X.org bits inplace? Thanks, -- Piotr Smyrak piotr.smyrak@heron.pl
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