Re: Anyone using x.org?

Mac Calder <[email protected]>
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On 10/18/05, Sam Varghese <[email protected]> wrote:
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> A couple of days back I decided to switch from xfree to x.org
> with rather disastrous results. I thought of the switch after finding
> that x.org had come into Debian testing which is what I use on my PC at
> home.
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> Alas, it all went wrong and I lost even the GUI which I was using.
> Getting it back was a pain as many of the old xfree packages are now
> deprecated and no longer available.
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> Anybody on the list who's switched over successfully?
>
> Sam

Almost all new Distros seem to come with Xorg and in my trials of Xorg
they have always worked fine using my old Xf86 configs. I have not
tried directly upgrading from xf86 to Xorg  though.

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