Re: Xorg 6.8.1

From: Gary Kline (kline_at_tao.thought.org)
Date: 02/26/05

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    Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:42:46 -0800
    To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
    
    

    On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 10:41:33PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
    > On Saturday, 26. February 2005 22:19, Gary Kline wrote:
    > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:49:00PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
    > > > On Saturday, 26. February 2005 13:05, Godwin Stewart wrote:
    > > > > On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:25:24 +1030, "Daniel O'Connor"
    > > > >
    > > > > <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:
    > > > > > You don't need to update a port just because it depends on Xorg. The
    > > > > > X API is quite stable so you can update just Xorg without expecting
    > > > > > any problems. (I did XFree86 -> Xorg with zero problems for example)
    > > > >
    > > > > No, the problem's the other way round. Every time I want to portupgrade
    > > > > something else, portupgrade also wants to upgrade Xorg.
    > > >
    > > > edit /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf, find the HOLD_PKGS = [ line and change
    > > > it to
    > > >
    > > > HOLD_PKGS = [
    > > > 'bsdpan-*',
    > > > 'xorg-*',
    > > > 'imake-*',
    > > > ]
    > > >
    > > > I've been using that for a long time now, since Xorg 6.8.1 breaks
    > > > vt-switching for me.
    > >
    > > Tweaking pkgtools.conf may help me if I move back to XFree,
    > > and it's looking like I have no choice. xorg autoconfigs
    > > itself to run at too high a res and nothing I do fixes it.
    >
    > How about adjusting the configuration then?

            There is utterly no xorg.conf file; the xorg probes
            set the resolution to the max (1600x1200), and the
            display `quivers' --for lack of a better word. So far
            my attemps with xorgcfg and xorgconfig work with
            startx only. And the display is off-center (leftward).

    >
    > > So, without highjacking this thread _too_ much, can anybody
    > > give me the cmds to get back to XFree-4 on my 5.3 install?
    >
    > You really don't want to do that except you're absolutely desparate (and the
    > above problem doesn't fit that category). Using XFree86 on 5.3 will make your
    > system incompatible with binary packages for 5.3 and for 5-STABLE.
    >

            If it's just binary _packages_, no problem since I build
            everything from src. Is XFree86 going to be completely
            obsolesced?

            gary

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