In part because my XFree86 4.4.0 seems to acting up suddenly; and I wanted
to give xorg a try; and xorg has better support for newer graphics cards (at
least that's what I understand).

-Robert


-----Original Message-----
From: netbsd-users-owner@NetBSD.org
[mailto:netbsd-users-owner@NetBSD.org]On Behalf Of segv
Sent: Montag, 25. Juli 2005 22:19
To: robert@kormar.net
Cc: netbsd-users@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: I've just installed xorg, now what...


On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:13:31 +0200
"Robert Cates" <robert@kormar.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just installed xorg from pkgsrc and I was hoping it would replace the
> XFree86.  Now that it's installed, how do I go about using it, instead of
> XFree86?
>
> Also, by default all software packages are installed under /usr/pkg.
Can't
> that be changed so they are installed under /usr, thereby updating
> previously installed software that is for example not listed with
pkg_info,
> like XFree86?  Or is there a (good) reason why you would not want to do
> that?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help, and sorry if these questions have been
> asked a million times!
> Robert
>
>
Any reason why you're installing Xorg when you have fully functional XFree86
in
the base system? What does Xorg have that XFree86 doesn't?