Re: moving from XF86 4.4.0 -> 3.3.6 ... how is this done?

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On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Tyler Retzlaff wrote:

> Deleting xf4.x is easy obviously just rm -rf /usr/X11R6/*

   Don't do that!  You'll delete all the X11 apps that came
with your distribution.  Only a handful of the apps in the
bin directory were supplied by XFree86.


			Mark.

>
> If you want xf3.x you can probably update netbsd xsrc to the 2.0
> branch and build it yourself.
> NetBSD has both xf3 and xf4 in their anoncvs xsrc module.
>
> xsrc/xfree/xc (xf4)
> xsrc/xc (xf3)
>
> Of course xf3 requires some fiddling to build since src/x11 never
> supported it.
>
> Tyler
>
> On 05/07/2005, at 6:38 PM, Christoper 'Han' Tucker wrote:
>
> > Hi there. I'm a regular unix user and I'm accustomed to X working
> > wonderfully. But I have an old Thinkpad 755CX laptop with the WD
> > chipset
> > that will not run the version of X windows that comes with NetBSD 2.0.
> >
> > I perused the XFree86 site and found that version3.3.6 supports my
> > chipset.
> >
> > How can I replace my 4.4.0 Xfree86 version with the older one?
> >
> > Thanks for any help
> >
> > - Chris
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