Re: XFree86 upgrade
On Sunday 15 May 2005 16:14, gustavo halperin wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>On Saturday 14 May 2005 17:09, gustavo halperin wrote:
>>>elton@pop4.nl wrote:
>>>>On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 08:10:29PM +0200, gustavo halperin wrote:
>>>>>There are any reason because of what the last
>>>>>Debian-package-XFree-version is
>>>>>the 4.3.x and not the 4.4.x or the new one 4.5.0 ?
>>>>
>>>>Yes, the people at xfree changed the license starting with
>>>> version 4.4. A lot of distributions decided not to ship xfree
>>>> 4.4. See
>>>> http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/18/131223.shtml?tid=104 for
>>>> example.
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>Elton
>>>
>>>OK, I see, thanks.
>>>So what now ?, which X server will be used in the future for the
>>>new drivers?
>>>maybe the one from X.org ??
>>
>>I think thats the general consensus, although debian is dragging
>> their feet quite heavily. I'm running a locally built x.org-6.8.1
>> here, with no complaints. Thats not quite the latest, but my
>> general thoughts are not to fix something thats not broken.
>
>OK, thanks.
>One more question, If I install the x.org or any newer version of
> the XFree, how I can back up my old XFree, I mean which directories
> and/or files I need
>to save in order to return theme if any problem happen with the
> newer X. The are any documentation some there of how do it ???
>
> Thank you.
>
> Gustavo Halperin
>
>>>Thanks
>>> Gustavo
Doubtfull on real docs, as it should be pretty simple. Make a copy
of /etc/X11 someplace else, and a copy of /usr/X11R6 someplace else
and you should have it covered. Follow the build directions for
x.org's version exactly and it should Just Work(TM) although you may
have to go find a copy of 'lndir' as I'm not sure its on all distros
by default.
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