Successful upgrade, following wikitest instructions

[Scott Robbins]

I had a sacrificial box, so I decided to try the xorg upgrade.  The only
problem I ran into was after following the step of make install in xorg,
it began running pkg_config and giving the message that there was a
dependency loop with xorg-libs.  

I ctl-C'd out of it.  It was hanging on registering xorg-7.1, however,
looking at /var/db/pkg showed xorg-7.1 there. I ran pkgdb -F which gave
me the chance to fix it.  I was so euphoric that it had worked I
neglected to write down my choices, thinking my memory would serve,
which I fear, it didn't.  There were a few conflicts (it didn't remove
xorg-server-6.9, so I chose, during pkgdb -F to unregister it.) 

At any rate, everything seems to be working.  I used a PCBSD
installation, because I was in a hurry to try this, and PCBSD gives me a
working X environment in about 20 minutes.  

I followed the instructions completely--I think, however, that I could
have gotten away with, rather than the entire xorg-drivers port to go
through and just install what I needed, mouse, keyboard, vesa for
emergency and xf86-video-mga.  

At any rate, I just wanted to report success, and thank you folks for
all your hard work and your guide to upgrading, which worked beautifully
for me.  When I have a bit of time, I think I'm going to dump this drive
to a spare, in case it doesn't work, and try it on my main workstation.  

Great job.  Thank you.


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Scott Robbins

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