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Re: Upgrading from xfree to xorg, any major issues?
- From: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, chris dot green at isbd dot co dot uk
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:56:47 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Upgrading from xfree to xorg, any major issues?
- References: <20041023203127.GA15160@areti.co.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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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