On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 15:43 +0200, Beatriz Botero wrote: > Is it possible to change in an working environment XFree by XOrg ? Is > there a hint anywhere?
It's not too hard, since they're fairly similar. Assuming you have the disk space, I'd suggest building (but not yet installing) Xorg as per the instructions in the BLFS book. Then drop to a console (so X isn't running), rename /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11 to something else (for backups), then complete the install steps. For configuration, you can probably copy across your old XF86Config file, but it should be renamed to xorg.conf. You'll also need to edit the keyboard section of the file and make sure the Driver line is set to "kbd" since the driver was changed in one of the Xorg releases (not sure if it's also changed in XFree86). Finally, if you've needed to install 3rd party drivers (such as the nvidia or ATI binary ones), you'll probably need to reinstall them, since they probably put files in /usr/X11R6. The same goes for any other files (maybe fonts?) that you've installed to that directory. If everything works after that, you can remove the backups of the old XFree installation. If it all falls apart, you can remove the new versions of the directories, and restore the backups. Simon.
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