Thanks to everyone who collaborated on this... just did it and it turned out fine... and on Phil's comment, I actually did the upgrade while X was running... the only file I really needed to worry about was the XF86Config file... all the other files appear to merge without issue...
Well done also to the Gentoo packagers for the X server... without them, things wouldn't have transitioned so seemlessly... ...Ric On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 11:13:11 -0500, Phill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agustin Navarro wrote: > >.. yes.... but be careful. I think you should not be doing it in X. > > Nonsense, everything should be just fine up until you restart X. > If memory serves me right, Xfree and X.org use the same config files, so > in theory just keep a copy of your xfree86.conf handy just in case it > gets overwritten or some such. There is also a very neat doc on how to > set x.org nice at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gentoooo-hooo!! == -- [email protected] mailing list
