HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans

[KAYVEN RIESE]

On Fri, 18 May 2007, James Snyder wrote:

> Regarding the trials and tribulations.  I did not, at first, get the message 
> that one shouldn't overlay the testing tree on top of the older tree, and did 
> the first libXft upgrade at that point.  That failed and subsequently I 
> needed to do a series of pkgdb -F & portupgrade -a commands along with a few 
> make deinstalls to make everything happy.  I could post the log of going

Oh dear.  My xfce4 is broke and I am thinking this procedure might
be what i need to do.  I have freeBSD-STABLE 6.2 and just was in the
middle of trying to update for the first time maybe a month ago, and
I haven't really recovered from the experience yet, I think.  I am sort
of new to being an admin on a UNIX system, but I first learned EVAX
in 1985.  I was sort of in a haitus of sorts while concentrating on
a MS degree in Physiology and Biophysics from about 1990-1998.  Right
now I can't run any non character based GUIs on this puter.  I could
really use a complete rundown of the steps in an email, which I read
with pine.


> through all that, however, it's incredibly long, and likely a bit on the 
> confusing side due to not giving up on any dead-ends :-)
>
as long as I have all the steps.. I can go to kinkos and print them
out.  I have no printer.


> Merge executed, had to then manually do the simlink.  After that, I had 
> trouble with the default font fixed and cursor not being found.  I needed to 
> install the appropriate misc-misc & misc-cursor fonts to get that going 
> appropriately.  I also had to manually install mouse and keyboard input 
> drivers after the new xorg drivers directory was initially created during the 
> upgrade process as a file rather than a directory.
>
Oh dear.  I am really going to need steps on this part.

> Best.
>
> -jsnyder
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