Xorg 6.8.1

[Michael Nottebrock]

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 at 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?

> 	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.

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