Thanks! -Paul Rigor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Hattemer" <hattenator@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora Core" <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 6:11 PM Subject: Re: Xfree86 v. X11-X.org > I wouldn't do it if you don't have a few hours to fix possible > problems. I did it using apt-get. Just apt-get update; apt-get install > ...; What you'll want to do is something like > rpm -qa |grep XFree > Then fill in the ... above with xorg-x11-* for every thing you have > XFree86-* installed already. It should say XFree86-* replaced, 0 > removed. If it wants to remove things that you need, you should > cancel. You may need to upgrade kde/gnome at the same time. After its > installed, you may want to do an apt-get --reinstall install xorg-x11-*, > where * are the xorg packages you picked. This reinstall was necessary > in the first release because the removal of XFree86 happened afterward > and caused some problems. Theoretically it shouldn't be necessary > anymore, but it takes less than 5 minutes on most machines, so it should > be quick and safe. > > You should be done at that point, but problems may insue. Your favorite > graphics driver may fail, and you may need to use an older kernel or > switch to VESA or fbdev or something. You may need to remove (backup) > /etc/X11/XF86Config, the use system-config-something to rebuild it. > That "something" is not coming to me. It was something like "graphics", > or "gui", but not X11 or xfree86, if I recall. Problems are not > expected, but they may occur, so be ready. > > -Eric Hattemer > > Paul Rigor wrote: > > >How easy is it to switch to X.org's X11 from the current FC1 distro? Yum > >(and its user) is sorta dumb. > > > >thanks, > >Paul Rigor > >pryce@xxxxxxxx > >Go Bruins!! Go FC!! > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
