Thread: X11 what?
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Old 02-19-2008, 12:20 PM
jed
 
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Default Re: X11 what?

> I cut the following from another thread.
>
> Can one of you old hands give us newcomers a bit of background about
> what is going to happen in 10.0.
>
> Will the XF86config file I have now not work in 10.0? No big deal,
> just wondering. I'm confused as to which kind of "X" I'm using in 9.1.
>
> I researched http://www.x.org/XOrg_background.html but it doesn't say
> much.
>
> How about a little history, please.
>
> Al


$ X -version
Will tell you what you have. I used swaret to upgrade everything to
current which upgraded X to 6.7. It uses /etc/X11/xorg.conf instead of
the XF86Config. After my upgrade, I saved my /etc/X11/xorg* for
reference then copied XF86Config to xorg.conf. No problems on several
boxes here.


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