switchin from xfree to xorg

li1_getoo · l33t Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 661 Location: Queens , NY

hehehe i made the mistake and switched , now etc-update got over 257 files to update .. they all need to be replaced [1] .... anyway i can speed this up ?

30726 · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 1501

Not really. -5 will overwrite without asking, but doing that with over 200 files is risky and will most certainly break shit.

Earthwings · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 1:28 pm Post subject:

Have a look at the beginning to see if important ones are going to be replaced and update them by hand till the list contains only config fails that can safely be overwritten. Then "-5" to have them automatically replaced.

I switched to xorg, too, and it was in no way a mistake :-)

Insanity5902 · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 1:32 pm Post subject:

yeah do a etc-update, the config files it are replacing need to be replaced. I used the -5 and no problems what-so-ever. xorg will even use your XF86config, if you have made a xorg-conf. There are a few things in the xfree config that it doesn't like so you might have to do a few startx commands to , for lack of a better term, debug your config.

I switch and I love it, probably kind of the placebo effect but I think it is a faster.
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Zviratko · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 1:36 pm Post subject:

most files it wants to update are static - don't care about them. It replaces a few config files you might have touched (like xtermrc and xdm.conf etc.), but I also did "-5" and lost nothing (well, some fonts...)

li1_getoo · l33t Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 661 Location: Queens , NY

i shouldve done -5 but i guess i am to late , i did them all one by one

John5788 · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 5:51 pm Post subject:

i got lazy and did a -5. everything still works perfectly.
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KingTaco · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 5:55 pm Post subject:

just switched also. did a -5 and no problems.
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Paranoid · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject:

Earthwings · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 10:36 pm Post subject:

I switched to it because I was running xfree-4.3 and the support for my ATI Radeon 7500 Mobile was rather bad. xorg is a big improvement for this (xfree-4.4-rc2 would be similar, I believe) and the update went really smooth. However, it can be a hassle for another system. What I did before and think is quite important is to make a binary of your currently running X-server (quickpkg xfree) so one is able to switch back easily if something goes wrong.

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Paranoid · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 11:22 pm Post subject:

I'm going to give it a try, lately I seem to have an insatiable urge to try anything new or experimental. Just need to do a little more research on it so I'm prepared.....and make some backups :wink:

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John5788 · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 11:29 pm Post subject:

switch now! itll be painless now than maybe later in the future because Xorg and Xfree86 4.4 are almost the same thing but with different licenses.
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echo6 · Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 587

This may sound silly, but how is it used practically instead of xfree? Is it as easy as emergeing it and launching startx ??

John5788 · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 12:49 am Post subject:

yeah, startx is the command.

xorgconfig is equivalent to xf86config
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Insanity5902 · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 1:16 am Post subject:

John5788 · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:16 am Post subject:

thats the file in /etc/X11/
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raylpc · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:05 am Post subject:

Backing up your /etc directory is a good idea. It's pretty small. Just do a cp -a /etc ~/etc as root. :wink:

echo6 · Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 587

Very painless switch :-)

petrjanda · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 12:44 pm Post subject:

Interestingly I had no config files to update

theBlackDragon · l33t Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Belgium

Ehrm, I updated them all by hand too...

The only annoying thing is that some ebuilds want to merge xfree again... The E17 ones (ecore and evas) to name some, emerging with nodeps went without a hitch though

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