sorry forwarding this will muck up the threading but it seemed the easiest
way.
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X11R6.7
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 13:21
From: Nathaniel McCallum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 20:55, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> I have xfree86 installed and when I emerge xorg-x11 -pv I get
>
> [blocks B ] x11-base/xfree ("virtual/xft" from pkg
> x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0)
> [blocks B ] x11-base/xfree (from pkg x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0)
> [ebuild N ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0 -3dfx -cjk -debug +doc
> -hardened -ipv6
>
> Is this telling me I need to remove xfree86 first before I switch to
> xorg-x11? If so are there any docs telling me what I'm in for - a long
> hard switch or relatively painless one? Right now I run xfce4 by
> running startx at my command line.
>
> Thanks.
This is what I did...
1. MAKE SURE that all your config files are updated by running
"etc-update". The reason is that after xorg-x11 is installed there will
be over 200 new config files to update. Most (if not all) of them just
need to be replaced. You just don't want to get old non-updated config
files to get mixed in with this (and possibly break something).
2. I made sure I had a binary package available of xfree. If you dont a
simple "emerge -B xfree" will do.
3. Then I made a binary package of xorg-x11 without actually installing
it (ie. "emerge -B --nodeps xorg-x11"). This way I had binary packages
of both in case of problems (to avoid multiple compiles if there is a
problem).
4. After that I stopped xdm and xfs (in my default runlevel; ie.
"/etc/init.d/[xfs and xdm] stop")
5. Then I uninstalled xfree ("emerge -Cp xfree").
6. Then I emerged xorg-x11 ("emerge -k xorg-x11").
7. The only major changes are the name of the config file and the path
of the fonts. Once xorg-x11 is installed, there are lots of config
files to update. So then I ran etc-update and just entered "-5" to
overwrite all the config files with the newer versions.
8. Then I edited my old XFConfig-4 to changed the new path to the
fonts. All fonts are now in /usr/share/fonts/.
9. Change the name of the XFConfig/XFConfig-4 file to xorg.conf
10. Re-start xfs and xdm.
11. Done! It was actually very painless. And my machine even seems
slightly faster. But perhaps I'm just immagineing things :).
Have fun!
Nathaniel
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