On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:22, Tom Wesley wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 21:18, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 14:51, Jordan Elver wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I've recently got my Radeon 9500 working properly under a 2.6 kernel. I want 
> > > to upgrade to the latest XFree but I *really* don't want to end up breaking 
> > > what I already have. 
> > > 
> > > What steps do I need to take to reduce the probability of breakage? Will I 
> > > need to re-emerge ati-drivers?
> > 
> > What do you mean by "latest"? 4.3.0-r3? If you're upgrading from
> > 4.3.0-r2 to that, not much should change. At most, you may need to run
> > opengl-update xfree && opengl-update ati, but I wouldn't even expect
> > that.
> > 
> > Also, run 'quickpkg xfree' before upgrading to save a package of
> > 4.3.0-r2. You can remerge that with emerge =xfree-4.3.0-r2 if you have
> > major problems.
> 
> I'm not sure, but I think quickpkg is broken.  I attempted to use it for
> some Mozilla problems I have.

Works for me. If you're having issues with it, please file a bug on
bugs.gentoo.org.

Jordan, BTW, might need emerge -k to get the binary to be used.

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