Upgrading XFree86 4.1 to 4.2

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Also sprach Susan Macchia on Monday 08 April 2002 01:31:

> I'm running a pretty much stock SuSE 7.3 distro running XFree 4.1.1 with
> kde 2.2.1 and gnome 1.4.
>
> I'm thinking of upgrading to XFree86 4.2 and was wondering if I'd have to
> update my kde and gnome packages.  Having never upgraded X before, I didn't
> know if this'd break my system.  I do have a test partition w/ a stock SuSE
> 7.3 install that I'll probably try it on first, but was wondering if there
> was anything obvious I should look out for.

I did an upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2 yesterday on a Redhat 7.1 distro, using the 
binary packages and the script 'install.sh' supplied by xfree.org. My 
observations:
- The install was easy, but afterwards I could only boot into xfce. A minute 
or so later, kde 2.2.2 appeared ON TOP of xfce. That might have been repaired 
by examining the startup scripts in /etc/X11 more thoroughly (I never quite 
understood the RH's XFree startup sequence), but after I had restored my 
complete old /etc/X11 folder of which I hade made a backup before the XFree 
install, I could boot into kde like before.
- Since then, there is a problem with my (PS) mouse: After an hour or so, I 
can't resize/move windows with it nor use it for scrolling.
I'll try to reconfigure my mouse later.  
Klaus