On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 13:56:04 +0100, Heinz Sporn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have an ATI card the downgrade to Xorg 6.7 would be clear. The > ati-drivers package simply depends on Xorg 6.7. It is said ATI will > deliver a set of drivers supporting Xorg 6.8 (and DRI) this month. In > the meantime you could either go with 6.7 or re-emerge 6.8 but forget > DRI for the moment (and yes it is working).
That's interesting, I suppose, but I have no idea how to use or not use DRI. I've just been using whatever is here. Where do I get an education? > > 291 config files: how long didn't you update your machine? About a week. That's all. But it included the XFree -> xorg switchover, and a major KDE overhaul as well. Most of the 291 were X-related. ++ kevin > > Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: > > Having carefully backed up my whole root partition, I just embarked on > > the huge emerge that had built up in just the few days around the > > new years. I was worried about Xorg, of course -- it was going to be > > a major pain if that didn't work. In the event, everything seems fine, but > > there were some oddities, in my opinion. It also seemed to replace > > much of KDE and a bunch of other things too. 38 steps. > > > > The oddities: > > > > For one thing, emerge first emerged xorg 6.8.0-r3, then downgraded it > > to xorg 6.7.0-r3, all in the same batch. Anyone know why it does this? > > I'm running on 6.70 right now, with no noticeable difference from the > > earlier XFree, so I'm not complaining. It just seems weird. Also very > > time-consuming. > > > > For another, when it was done, and quite aside from the automatic > > trivial config merges, there were 291 config file changes that etc-update > > wanted me to scrutinize. I don't have the attention span for that, so > > I looked at the 9 that I most nearly know what they do. The rest I just > > told it to automerge, and I'm hoping for the best. Is it really necessary > > to have 300 config files changed in a given update? There just seems > > to be something unfriendly about that. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [email protected] mailing list
