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I found the xorg howto on the gentoo site, but I was wondering if there
is some info on transitioning from a working xfree. Like can I just
use my XF86Config file?

BDB wrote:
> I found the xorg howto on the gentoo site, but I was wondering if there
> is some info on transitioning from a working xfree. Like can I just
> use my XF86Config file?
in xorg instead of usng /etx/X11/XF86Config, you use
/etx/X11/xorg.xonf... as far as im conserned, xorg actually uses the
xf86config, if no xorg.conf exists, the two files might actually be the
same.

hope this helped a little... just use emerge xorg-x11

BDB wrote:

> Like can I just use my XF86Config file?
renamed mine to xorg.conf and it worked outta the box.

Dieter Soltau <sprockhoevel@web.de> schrieb:

>BDB wrote:
>
>> Like can I just use my XF86Config file?
>renamed mine to xorg.conf and it worked outta the box.

Dieter,
what were your reasons to switch? I can think of things like
- license issues
- performance
- features
just beeing curious...
Eggert

Eggert Ehmke wrote:

> what were your reasons to switch? I can think of things like
> - license issues
> - performance
> - features
none of the above

> just beeing curious...
AFAIK future versions of xfree will not be supported anymore by gentoo.

i dont think there are more features or performance improvements in xorg
yet. but it is nice beeing able to update using emerge on the long run..

Dieter Soltau <sprockhoevel@web.de> schrieb:

>Eggert Ehmke wrote:
>> what were your reasons to switch? I can think of things like
>> - license issues
>> - performance
>> - features
>none of the above
>
>> just beeing curious...
>AFAIK future versions of xfree will not be supported anymore by gentoo.
>
>i dont think there are more features or performance improvements in xorg
>yet. but it is nice beeing able to update using emerge on the long run..

Ok, but the decision not to support future xfree versions was driven
by the licensing problem, AFAIK.

Do you have 3d support enabled? Is there something like xorg-drm?
Eggert

Eggert Ehmke wrote:

> Ok, but the decision not to support future xfree versions was driven
> by the licensing problem, AFAIK.
dont know, dont care
both of them work for me yet, xorg and xfree - no difference. hmm, i am not
sure what your point is?

> Do you have 3d support enabled?
yes, nvidia glx driver.

> Is there something like xorg-drm?
dont know what this is. neither had this in both of my configs. as i already
mentioned i simply took my xfree config and it worked with xorg outta the
box. thats what the oposter asked for.

there is DRI - if you meant that. but AFAIK it is not used anyway if you use
nvidias driver. i could be wrong, though..

BDB wrote:

> I found the xorg howto on the gentoo site, but I was wondering if there
> is some info on transitioning from a working xfree. Like can I just
> use my XF86Config file?
As I recall, all I did to switch is emerge -C xfree and emerge xorg and the
fonts (don't know if I had to, but it's easy enough) and then, since I have
an nvidia card, re-emerged nvidia-kernel (don't know if I had to do that
either, but again, it's easy enough).
xorg uses my XF86Config file.

xorg pretty much does everything xfree does. It does have a different font
path, so that needs to be taken into account. There are a lot of different
ways to set up fonts and X, so, exactly what you need to do to take care of
that depends on the setup. You may need to change some paths if you have
lots of fonts that you have installed with xfree (although, if you use the
old XF86Config file, your font paths don't change if that is where they are
listed)

For me the switch to xorg was amazingly transparent.
I will probably see what xorg can automatically generate as far as a new
config file, when I get the time to mess around a bit, but it's really not
necessary.


--
jim

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I decided to go from XFree to XOrg, not only because of licensing
issues, but most of all because the development of XOrg seems to be
going almost twice as fast as XFree. Because all the major GNU/Linux
distributions now use XOrg, the motivation to develop XFree is gone and
the project is in my eyes doomed.

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BDB wrote:

> I found the xorg howto on the gentoo site, but I was wondering if there
> is some info on transitioning from a working xfree. Like can I just
> use my XF86Config file?

In the last week or so I have changed to Xorg. I now find that NWN runs
much smother, only uses 40~50% cpu (compared to 100% with XFree) and there
is little slowdown when I log into X from the laptop and run kde3.3 across
the LAN while still running NWN. The last would have slowed the game down
alot but now it´s hardly noticeable.

Have others noticed vast improvements?

Well done Xorg
--
Charles Fryett
www.discover-england.co.uk/
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