Upgrading from xfree to xorg, any major issues?
Alexander Gottwald
Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Sun Oct 24 00:57:00 GMT 2004
Chris Green wrote:
> Some time soon I'm going to have to upgrade my present Cygwin/X
> installation which is mostly 4.3.0.x Xfree to the latest Xorg
> versions.
>
> How painless is this likely to be? I run Cygwin/X on a Win2k machine
> and use it to display my Slackware Linux desktop using xdm.
There should be only minor issues. XF86Config is not compiled in anymore.
Lot's of bugfixes...
But actually xorg 6.7.0 was just the next evolution of xfree 4.3.0 and
fits in the old release tree
xf 4.2
xf 4.3
xorg 6.7.0
xorg 6.8.0
xorg 6.8.1
So there should not be any big problems
NP: Welle Erdball - Alles ist möglich
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