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/: Switched to X11R6.7.0 from X.Org. Thanks to those who sent comments to
x@slackware.com. Seems the community has spoken, because the opinions were
more than 4 to 1 in favor of using the X.Org release as the default version
of X. I think I've heard just about every side to this issue now, and it was
only after careful consideration and testing that this decision was made.
It's primarily (as is usual around here) a technical decision. Nearly
everyone else is going with X.Org and it seems to me that sticking with
XFree86 it spite of this would be asking for compatibility trouble (indeed,
we saw some issues between X.Org and XFree86 4.4.0 until a few things in
XFree86 were patched). I also noticed that the ATI Radeon binary drivers
designed for XFree86 4.3.0 do not work with XFree86 4.4.0, but do work with
the X.Org release. Something I'm not in favor of is dragging around two
nearly identical projects, so XFree86 4.4.0 has been moved to the
/pub/slackware/unsupported/ directory on the FTP site.

> 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.

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:52:19 -0700,
A-B C. <atakeoutcanton@adams-blaketakeout.com> wrote:
> I cut the following from another thread.

Which in turn came from the -current changelog, originally.

> Will the XF86config file I have now not work in 10.0?

Yes, it will. Although X11 uses /etc/X11/xorg.conf instead of
XF86Config, the syntax of the file is exactly the same. You just need to
cp, mv or ln your XF86Config file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. (I found this
was all I needed to do to 'migrate' from XFree86 to X11.

> I'm confused as to which kind of "X" I'm using in 9.1.

You'll be using an X that's nearly identical in usage to one in 9.1,
except that it'll be maintained by another group/organisation.

> How about a little history, please.

IIRC, there was a recent change in XFree86's licensing that was a
concern for a lot of distribution vendors. Distributions have moved over
to X.org's X sources, which are based on the XFree sources before the
licensing change.


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