On Monday 06 October 2003 09:59 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 21:47, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > I am currently running xfree86 4.30 r2 from portage and would like to
> > upgrade to release 3.
> >
> > What I'd like to know is, are there any additional steps I need to do
> > after I emerge r3 into my gentoo box? I seem to recall r3 being a test of
> > some sort and lost all memory of what was discussed on the matter.
> >
> > Anyone running this version of xfree? Are there any additional steps to
> > make the upgrade a smooth one?
> >
> > Thank you, in advance.
>
> There shouldn't be any major problems in this upgrade. It has all the
> latest fixes and I haven't encountered any real issues. If you use X
> over TCP, you'll need to re-enable it after merging. It adds a Synaptics
> touchpad driver, which allows them to work on 2.6 kernels and adds many
> features on both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. There's also a significant number
> of security fixes and bugfixes. The last significant addition is
> potential building of the SDK with USE="sdk" or USE="gatos". This will
> eventually allow us to update individual drivers without rebuilding
> XFree.
That's great news. For some reason I remember something about fonts being
moved from one loadcation under /usr/X11R6 to somewhere else...
Any thoughts on that one?
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