Fedora: how to go from XFree86 to xorg?

[Net Llama!]

On 05/16/04 03:30, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Saturday 15 May 2004 11:44 am, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>Since i'm terminally impatient I installed Fedora Core 2-test-1 last
>>night (yes i know test 3 exists, and the final version is due out next
>>week).
>>
>>Test 1 came with XFree86, but it looks like the fedora people switched
>>over to the X.org stuff sometime afterwards.  Is there a safe way to
>>upgrade (rpm -Uvh) or am i basically screwed?
> 
> 
> You might be able to update via yum, or apt, if you set up the right 
> repository. 
> Check http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/apt-fc2/ for a potential repository (that's 
> an upgrade from RC1 to FC2 test 1 from which you might extrapolate an answer.
> 
> Now how "safe" that might be, who knows?

all fixed now.  turns out that somewhere along the line /dev/psaux got 
replaced with /dev/input/mice.

so, it appears to be quite safe to upgrade all the rpms from fc2-test1 
to the latest in devel.

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