In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Reilly
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 11:17, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> >
> > If you actually do run into problems with the way the XFree86 4.2.0 got
> > integrated, give a holler.
> First biggie: the build doesn't seem to have the interactive business
> anymore. That would be well and good, if it worked properly. I don't
> know what happened, but portupgrade removed up my old XFree864.1
> installation, including all of my config files in /etc/X11, and then the
> new version didn't install a new set. Aargh. I had to dig an old copy
> of /etc/X11 off a backup CD I'd made earlier. I still don't know what
> magic was really required to make the port install the config files.
Everything but /etc/XF86Config moved to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. Everything
"just worked" for me after the upgrade, without having to install
anything in /etc/X11.
> Second biggie: I have a Matrox MGA G200 video card that was well
> supported in earlier releases. The new release doesn't work at all if
> compiled without the WITH_MATROX_GXX_DRIVER=yes flag in make.conf. The
> server whinges that it can't find MGA_HAL_something.so.foo. So,
> re-compiling with the flag set builds a server that runs, but that (my
> guess) hangs the PCI bus. The screen goes black, a few seconds pass in
> which no input of any sort works, and then the system does a hard
> reboot.
Sorry, but I can't help with that one.
<mike
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