There shouldnt be much diff performance wise between x.org and xfree86 ,
at the moment only real differences are modularisation and improved
doco's
Cheers
Dale.
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 20:55, Nick Rout wrote:
> 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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