On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 22:08, Jerry McBride wrote: > 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? >
My xfree-installed fonts reside in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/, and external fonts reside in /usr/share/fonts/.
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