[gobolinux-users] Re: Xorg update (6.8 -> 7.0)

Hisham Muhammad hisham.hm at gmail.com
Fri May 5 20:52:02 GMT 2006


On 4/17/06, Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 16 April 2006 14:50, Tom wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > What are the consequences of updating Xorg to the latest 7.0 ?
> >
> > May I just have to recompile nvidia drivers ? Or does the update
> > include gtk, qt, xfce (all the "base" graphical apps) ?
>
> I think you'll just need to recompile the nvidia drivers. I've upgraded to
> Xorg 7.0 here without pain. The only thing to note is that there are some
> changes on directories, such as the xorg modules dir, which now lives
> inside /Programs/Xorg/Current/lib/xorg/modules.

...which means one needs to update their
/System/Settings/X11/xorg.conf file to match the modified paths.

-- Hisham
just making sure we're all on the same page :)


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